Is Writing Really Worth Your Effort?

An examination of one’s own actions and motives

Photo by Andrew Neel on Unsplash

Here’s the thing. I wake some mornings with nothing but a blank space for a brain. I wander around inside my home, pick up the newspaper, read a line or two, and move around a bit more.

I stop at the window in my study — the ocean comes in quiet — a room filled with absurdities and tragedies of…