WHAT WRITING ASKS

To write requires attention, not unlike a call to prayer.

To write requires respect – even reverence – for the sacred within the ordinary.

Writing well demands that I be wide awake, both open to and honest about what I see, and lucid in the telling.

Writing asks that I embrace a world that can just as well be the source of despair.

And this. Writing demands that I quit talking about writing – ah so easy – and sit my ass down on a hard chair instead. That I pick up a pen and write.

Scratch out.

Throw away.

Start again.

And again.

And again.

Write.