The Truth About Writing

 

Writing stories is like eating a ‘push-up’.  You know, the orange sherbet ice cream treat?  The story sitting on top is the one that is currently nagging me to be written.  It will sit there and constantly reveal bits of itself until it just has to be put down on paper.  Meanwhile the stories living in the layers below will send out little bits from time to time as if they are just reminding me that there is more work to be done.  Once the story on top is written, it no longer nags and disappears as if it had been licked away and the next story is at the top of the ‘push-up’.  On most days I can see up to three or four stories deep into the ‘push-up’.  Hopefully, I will never reach that white plastic disk at the bottom of all that orange flavored goodness.  Because if I do, hopefully there’s more ‘push-ups’ in the freezer.