Ah, to be a writer

Haunted by characters demanding to have life

Dialogue swirling in your head

Settings flashing before your eyes

Conflict churning in your gut

 

Dreams, night and day . . . dreams

 

Emotions… show them

Backgrounds… reveal them

Senses… feel them

Plots… move them

 

Day and night… dreams

 

Stories of love and romance

Chronicles of history and intrigue

Tales of fantasy and adventure

Yarns of cunning villains and wily detectives

 

Dreams, always dreams

 

Battling the blank screen, the empty page

First drafts

Sagging middles

Revisions, submissions, revisions

 

Dreams… Becoming reality

 

by Starla Criser