The Insufficiency of the Descriptive Means of Expression Known as Words

I have an addiction…to words.  I find myself comfortably in bed.  But then!  A thought comes to me that I must write down.  Or else…alas!  I may forget it by morning.  So…I try not to start writing a story or my thoughts at night, because I would never get any rest.  Words!  Thoughts!  Spinning!  They come so fast.  Fleeting thoughts.  “Give me a pen!”  The words just keep coming.  “Stop!  I need sleep!”  But no.  The words.  They do not heed my request.  If I don’t write them down immediately, I find the words have left me, and I don’t know whether to turn right or left to search for them.  So I guess another name for a writer…is a word chaser. Continue reading “The Insufficiency of the Descriptive Means of Expression Known as Words”