So Much to Write

"If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing, I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain." - Lord Byron

One of the most simultaneously maddening and wonderful thing about being a writer is that there is so much to write. It’s like reading—so many books, so little time. With writing it is:

• So many words, so little time
• So many genres, so little skill
• So many rewrites, but how perfectionistic can I be? Besides, can I ever achieve perfection? Of course not! Just whisper,Faulkner to me and I’m tempted to throw away my pen. That is, until that other voice whispers to me, write.