writer’s creed

this is my pen, my PC, my laptop, my ipad, my phone---

all with which i write.

there are many like them, but these are mine.

my writing apparatus is my best friend. 

it is my life &

i must master it as i must master my life.

without me, this apparatus is useless.  without this apparatus, i am useless.

i must write whatever i like, whenever i like,

for to write is to breathe & to breathe is to live.

both my apparatus & myself know that what counts in the act of writing is not

the conclusive piece written, but the process by which we come to such a

conclusion.

my apparatus is not human & therefore it does not carry with it the flaws & errors

that accompany such a state of being.

i will learn as i use it,

overstepping weaknesses in myself &

gaining strength in that same token.  in doing so, i will make sure to keep my apparatus fully functional & updated to the best of my ability.

before myself, those who may read my own work & whose work i read,

i swear this creed---

beyond this i swear nothing to anyone, to anything, to anything that “could be” or that is still being pondered---

for we writers are the masters of the “now.”

we are saviors to no one &

victory in any sense, has never been an objective.

this is what we do.