Reading unlined papers
Bottling words that don’t make sense
Imagining the square letters on your blue jeans
Inserting words on a wide-ruled page
Folding papers
Calling for publication when no one is at your service
Asking for advice columns
Preparing lousy speeches
Attending grad school
Flunking Algebra but then cutting it short to make an A in English
The English nerd
Walking while writing
Talking on the phone and recording words of dialogue in one’s ear
Making scenes in one’s head
Deleting unmarked sentences covered with red ink
Slashing your markings and cutting out certain word like: Fuck or Damn
Accusing your English professor for damaging your unpublished work
Creating your own contests that no one attends to online
Making a date with a writing friend
All you talk about is writing
Nothing intrigues you except the words on people’s shirts
Books make you leave the world
Pieces of blank paper make you smile
Recordings of music titles with loser titles make you faint
Dialogue is action
Words are life
Scenes are forest like
Story equals character
A good plot line is hard to find
Every paper you have says these lines on them
Writers count words not numbers