05 Nov 2015 6 Comments
Cannot Write Without: Carlene Love
The question in the lagoon this month: What’s the one thing you cannot write without?
Today’s answer comes from Waterworld Mermaids’ very own, Carlene Love.
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One thing, says Alethea. One thing. The. One. Thing. You need to write.
I love her. But this was hard. Until I realized I could make a tiny tweak to our theme. Maybe it’s not the “end all, be all” of writing necessities, but I’ll tell you what, I do much better in its comfy embrace. Without the nighttime, my words would be like sad little kids sitting on a bone-dry slip ‘n’ slide with a water hose stuck in the yard across the street guarded by a frothy-mouthed attack monster of your choice.
Man, that’s not a pretty scene. But hopefully this poem is. Thank you for letting me share why I love to write at night…
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