Writers Don't Write

Writers don't write.

Hey, far be it for me
to break that myth,
but it's true.
Writer's don't write,
they think.

They think, and they
think, and sometimes
they write, but mostly,
they think.

That's why I have a
problem when I hear
that terrible advice,
for writers to write,
what, like every day.
It's nonsense.

Writers don't write,
they think.

Writers who write
everyday aren't
writing, they're
practicing some
story they already
know. They're
refining the rules
for themselves.

Writers don't have
rules. Writers don't
write, they only think.

And, sometimes, write.

Writers do write, but
it doesn't matter what
they write, or how
often, or how many times
they write a single
story, because they
always think. Rewriting
is a myth, cooked up
by people who aren't
writers.

Writers don't write.

Sometimes they do. Sometimes
they work on the same story,
write parts of the same story,
many times, but they only
write it once. Once it's
written, hey, it's
written.

Writers don't rewrite,
they write something else.

Writers don't write,
they think. Thinking
takes up all their time,
even the time they take
to do other things. If
they don't think, then
they aren't a writer.

Writers think,
constantly. A story,
a good story, has been
thought for a very long time.
If it has been thought long
enough, then it can be
written. Or hey, sometimes,
the story just comes.

In the meantime, writers
don't write, or they do,
just something else.

Because writers can
always write, just not
things other people
might recognize.

Writers write things
others will recognize,
or will in time,
because writers don't
write just to write,
but because it needs
to be written.

Writers don't write
just to say they wrote
but because it needs
to be written.

In the same way
readers don't read
unless it needs
to be read,
writers don't write
unless it needs
to be written.

Anyone else, they're
not writing, but
they can still get
in the way.

Writers don't write,
they think.

Sometimes, the story
may remain there,
in their head,
because writers don't write,
but even then,
it will have been written.

Stories are always only in
someone's head. And that's
the beauty of it.