If It Sounds Good As You Say

The Tendency When You Dictate Is To Overwrite, Because You're Not Counting Pages, You Don't Really Know What The Hell The Page Count Is.

This Is, If Not A Lifetime Process, It's Awfully Close To It. The Writer Broadens, Becomes Deeper, Becomes More Observant, Becomes More Tempered, Becomes Much Wiser Over A Period Time Passing. It Is Not Something That Is Injected Into Him By A Needle. It Is Not Something That Comes On A Wave Of Flashing, Explosive Light One Night And Say, 'huzzah! Eureka! I've Got It!' And Then Proceeds To Write The Great American Novel In Eleven Days. It Doesn't Work That Way. It's A Long, Tedious, Tough, Frustrating Process, But Never, Ever Be Put Aside By The Fact That It's Hard.

Up There, Up There In The Vastness Of Space, In The Void That Is Sky, Up There Is An Enemy Known As Isolation. It Sits There In The Stars Waiting, Waiting With The Patience Of Eons, Forever Waiting In The Twilight Zone.

Somehow, Some Way, Incredibly Enough, Good Writing Ultimately Gets Recognized. If You're A Really Good Writer And Deserve That Honored Position, Then By God, You'll Write, And You'll Be Read.

If You Write Beautifully, You Write Beautifully, That's All.