"Once upon a time there was a boy--"

Scrap that!!

Uh...oh, I know!

"It was a dark and stormy--"

Wait. That's been done before. Dang it.

"Her hair was as golden as the sun--"

BOOOOOOOOOORING.

Jeez. And people say it's easy to write. "Oh, it's just a bunch of words."

A bunch of words my ay double-ess! Sheesh. Anybody who says that and believes it needs to be dragged to the street and have ice cream chucked at them. Yes. Ice cream. Why ice cream? Cuz that sounds real uncomfortable right now.

Oh! I know!

"'Can't stop falling in love.' He wrote it over and over--"

What. The. HELL? Something is NOT write today. ...Hahah. Write instead of right. I made a funny.

But seriously.

How can somebody say "Oh, it's just a bunch of words" and mean it? Maybe some cocky-arse jerk would say that. ...Or some cocky-arse writer-jerk. ...Either way! Both are cocky-arse jerks! ...And they wouldn't be a real writer if they said that...

Don't they realize that it's JUST a bit of a dagger to the heart to hear that? I mean REALLY. You might as well just say to an artist "Oh, it's just a bunch of lines and circles and squares." Or maybe to some wood carver "Oh, it's just a bunch of scrapes" and...er...whatever else wood carvers do that makes nifty stuff. I dunno. I don't know too many wood carvers.

People like that bug me. It's annoying and makes me think it's totally pointless to write. HELLLOOOO. Writing's a passion, thank you very much. Forgetting the emotion in that work are we not? Or all them sleepless nights from writing "a bunch of words" into a half-decent piece, hmm? Or the sheer and utter depression from everything attempted becoming AN ABSOLUTE FAILURE?

If it really was "just a bunch of words", then why don't YOU try writing a masterpiece and spend sleepless nights working on the next scene? Because Uncle Sam WANTS YOU to be proved wrong. If it honestly is "just a bunch of words", then it should be NO problem.

But apparently it is because "Oh, I have no time! That's the hard part! Sitting down and writing it all!" Ooh, you poor baby, my heart bleeds for you. PUH-lease. If you're only problem's time, then bloody make some. I do. I don't care if my grades suffer for it; if it's something you love, then you sure as hell better be prepared to make time for it. If not, then it doesn't mean that much. Grades mean nothing to me. Now, I'm not saying those who have no time whatsoever don't love it enough; I'm just saying that is one LAME ay-double-ess excuse.

Watch what you say to those writers, anyway. You may end up in their novel. It might be "just a bunch of words" but how many words have started wars? How many words have shattered friendships? Look at the fracking Bible, for freakin' sake!!  

Do you know how powerful that thing is? I'm not slamming down on the religion, but look at how many people are on their knees, praying for Heaven or the "Freedom Land"? You say it's the gun or the knife, but words are what provoked such actions. "The pen is mightier than the sword" my teacher once said. ...Though...he has been stabbed by both...

Either way, watch it. Writing is just as hard as any other creation, be it artistic or technological.