Never A Day Without A Word

Back in the days before I aspired to be a real artist, I aspired to be a real writer.

(No, I can’t tell you exactly what a “real writer” is — for that matter, I can’t tell you what a real artist is, either. )

When I aspired to be a real writer, I bought a lot of books on writing. (I even read most of them)

Among those books was one which I have mostly forgotten (including it’s title) except for one ominous, beautiful, intimidating line:

nulla dies sin linea

That’s “never a day without a word” in Latin. Or so the book said. I don’t read Latin, so I can’t be certain, but I thought it was good advice.

The reasoning was something like this:

“If you want to be a writer, write.
Write every day.
Even if it’s only one word. Write.”

I liked it then, I like it now… but I’ve never followed it.

Today? Well, I don’t want to be a writer. I don’t want to be an artist. I just want to breathe, and be, and blog. So I’m not going to write today. Not even one word before I go to sleep!

What’s that you say?

Yes, Blogging is writing, I guess.

Oh.

I see your point. Fine then. Here you go.

Today’s Word is …

WORD.

There. I even did it in a big font and everything.

Does this mean I’m a real writer, now?

Oh, that book I couldn’t remember the name of? It was Writing on Both Sides of the Brain. I looked it up. Don’t say I never did anything for you!

MindTWEAK: It doesn’t have to be good. It doesn’t have to be right. It just has to be *REAL*.