Anthem

What is it about hitting the perfect note on an intrument, or writing the perfect sentence that gives someone that feeling? If you've ever done it you know what feeling I am talking about. It is something that is hard to explain to someone who hasn't. It's like some strange beast that paces the cage inside of us finally being let go to run through the streets, yowling at all those poor, sleeping people.

Writers are filled simultaneously with elation and dread. We dread the coming of the day and whatever it may bring in its terrible vengeance. Each day is a new horror waiting to be unveiled. Something will come and snatch us, by god. Something will take us in its icy grips and drag us into the forest, kicking and screaming until our voices are nothing more than a sick memory.

That is how we view life. It is scary and unpredictable and unescapable. The writing comes through us to fend off the demon, to beat the devil. We write to save our lives and nothing more.