Writing is making love under a crescent moon: I see shadows of what’s to come, and it’s enough; I have faith in what I can’t see and it’s substantiated by a beginning, a climax, an ending. And if it’s an epic novel in hand, I watch the sunrise amid the twigs and dewing grass; the wordplay is what matters.
Simply put, I’m in love, and any inconvenience is merely an afterthought.
The sun tips the horizon; the manuscript is complete. The author, full of profound exhaustion, lays his stylus aside. His labor of love stretches before him, beautiful, content, sleeping, until the next crescent moon stars the evening sky.
Tag: writing writing-life love-of-writing on-being-a-rat
Writing makes me hard, like a fisherman, and brown from the heat. Tossing out and reeling in is a job for visionaries and those with calloused hands.
Chila WoychikTag: writing-life visionaries on-being-a-rat writing-effort writing-is-hard
A writer hopes never to offend, but if he must, pray let him offend the gods before the reviewers.
Chila WoychikTag: writing reviews book-reviews on-being-a-rat
When I pour a bowl of Uncle Sam’s cereal, I never know if I should stand when I eat, salute it first, or simply hum the Star Spangled Banner between mouthfuls.
Chila WoychikTag: writing creativity writing-life writing-process on-being-a-rat
Oh God, for a few who will love me in tiny ways every single day of my flashing existence. For a mere one or two who will treat me like the trash I am, who will love the smell of garbage and rummage through the bin of my failings to find the wrapped cheeseburger they can do without but consider long enough to get their taste buds used to the idea.
Oh for a melodious tongue to sing me a song about french fries.
Tag: writing creative-process writing-life writing-process on-being-a-rat
I suck the words word-dry
to me, assimilated
orderly at breakeye speed
still hard and harder
softer then
line-lined book-dry
‘til not a drop
of water-blood
from oak and elm
and authored men
is left to whisper
“Read…
Tag: reading writing creativity writing-life writing-process on-being-a-rat poetry-about-writing
When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces fruit. But with painfully bad writing, all one can do is grab a hatchet, slice off its head, and bury it.
Chila WoychikTag: writing creativity writing-life bad-writing on-being-a-rat
The Page awaits the Inspiration even as Inspiration roams the world of man, seeking a Page upon which to unfurl itself, body and soul, bare yet clothed in immortality if not immediacy.
And the gods said, “Let there be a Page, and many a Page,” and there was a Book. And we saw that the Book was good.
Tag: books writing-life writing-process writing-inspiration writing-style on-being-a-rat
Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice.
Chila WoychikTag: inspiration writing-life the-muse on-being-a-rat writing-muse
If a book can save—redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane—surely, there must be a God.
Chila WoychikTag: reading books writing writing-life reading-for-life on-being-a-rat wonder-of-books
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