Another Day

Writing requires some standard or uniformity. We write because we can and because it is easily transferable and portable. It is a way of capturing our thoughts for longer than the breath it takes to utter them. If we can't say something well and if we can't say something meaningful, should we bother to say it at all? Once we decide there is something to be said, we are left to answer even more questions.

What form will our daily novel take today? Shall we use prose or poetry to express ourselves? Will a quick note do the trick or is a sonnet more in keeping with the mood of the message? Is formal language needed or would slang be acceptable? Who needs to hear my message and exactly what is that message?

I think therein lies some of the problems with writing and writers. There are too many decisions to be made and too little time in which to make them. There are too many subjects to cover and too little paper to capture them.

At some point, the well runs dry. What do we write about today? There are only a vast number of topics to be written about. Technically, this is a finite number of topics and many of them have already been well exhausted. What can I say that is so different from those before me?

Well, there seems to be one topic that is always popular. We can always write about writing! There's a neverending subject in that one. There's why we don't write, why we can't write, why we shouldn't write, why we do write, how we could write, and a whole host of others.

Obviously, though, I'm babbling. I expect when I finish, though, I will be able to piece together some extraordinary masterpiece.