Monday, February 14, 2011

Dad at the Chalkboard: Writing - It's a Love/Hate Thing.

Dad at the Chalkboard: Writing - It's a Love/Hate Thing.

Writing - It's a Love/Hate Thing.


"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible." - Vladimir Nabokov


"Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." - Gene Fowler


The act of writing is a strange beast. A creature to love and to loathe, quite often at the exact same time.


It can be an act whose very execution causes the soul to feel at one with the universe. The writer can almost feel the wind blowing full-on into the sails of the story, mother nature herself dotting the i's and crossing the t's. The act of writing becomes a journey to a mythical land, where mysteries abound and the unexpected can happen at