Author’s Statement
Passion is all that matters in writing. As a certain old Jazz singer said, “It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that zing.” The greatest issue I see with much of the writing I read is that it lacks fire. We write to combat the indignities thrust upon us by nature, our fellow man, and sometimes even by God. We write to make sense of a violent, harsh, and indifferent world. We write to make our lives count for something. Beside that, the trite and banal clichés you hear in writing clinics, such as “Show, don’t tell,” are mere pabulum.
Now tell me why you write.
If you don't write, tell me why you read, paint, draw, or sing.
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I write because beauty and truth need a voice, and I cannot keep myself from expressing them. The leaves turn in autumn, the wild geese fly in a "V," and I write.
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