Writing

 

by Martin Rea--

Writing is not a type of fish battered and fried and sold and enjoyed of a Friday evening.

Writing is not what a jockey does with a horse, be it on the flat or over hurdles, slow or speeding.

Writing is not uncontrolled, involuntary, spasmodic movements of the body, alone or a deux.

Writing is not the correcting of wrongs or injustices and two writes do not a wrong make.

Writing is not levelling a ship in stormy waters, returning it to an even keel.

No; writing is none of these things.

Writing is the sculpting of spirit in ink on a page forever and ever.

Quite a serious business, not to be trifled with.

For without it nobody could read this thing I have thought,

This thing I have set out in writing!