WORDS OF WISDOM

 There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

~Ernest Hemingway, Novelist (1899-1961)

I wonder what Hemingway's state of mind was when he said this. In his last years, he felt that he was losing it as a writer.

I believe the fear of being irrelevant crosses a writer's mind. It has certainly crossed mine. I began writing poetry when my story-commentary writing became stagnant. Now I've written over three hundred poems.

I view Hemingway's comment 'sitting at the typewriter and bleed' as the author pouring his/ her heart out. Songwriting is an example of this. I want the reader to feel what the protagonist feels.