A few scattered thoughts on writing

What are writers?
Writers are organisms of evolution. We have to adapt to the changing world of readers with attention spans ranging from horny teens to Buddha. We have to be willing to change, to become better, to push against that invisible wall in our brains that separates us from the next bout of brilliance. If the world asks for fire we must learn how to burn, how to make the words smolder to ash between our fingers. Ice and we must pack it around our hearts and sprinkle over our typewriters.

Then there are spans of time when the fingers have to rest. They feel neither hot nor cold. They feel no vibration. The heart that races in the passion of the scene  races now in anxiety because your hands, feet, heart, and brain are chained to a register. Sometimes a writer walks a path that takes them very far away from the keyboard . . . but when you come back you are closer then ever before to breaking that invisible wall. The words are sticky at first, but after a few days of practice they flow with ease. . .

until the chains reappear.

Writers know true sacrifice, true challenge. Because if we didn't you would never read about it. We are the warriors of time. The last knights on the unspoken crusade. We are the artists in a world where art is dying.

So how do we reawaken the written word? What does it take to stop men, women, and children from watching the youtube version of a short story? How am I getting you to read this right now?

Because I am also asking you to start writing. You all have something to say about the world-the only way it will be heard is if you pick up pen, paintbrush, instrument or dancing shoes and use them. Art is only dead when we fail to express it. So please, support your local artists and writers, not because they need to eat and pay rent like you, but because they have a message that may very well change your life forever. Thats why writers still write. The dying artist still has something to say. The word has a specific weight to it. The word puts your own  unique version of a scene into your head. The written word makes it your own in a different way

Peace guys,
-Samwise