"Dreamers of the day." A meditation on writing.
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” – T E Lawrence Last week I began a writing class in The Art of Nonfiction. When I signed up for this class, I have to admit I wasn't even sure what it even meant. I can't say that I fully do even now. But, after the first class I realized how exciting it will be to write among other writers. Bloggers, I think, have a very easy road of it -- just putting out whatever suits them in this invisible, solitary bubble where we write our blogs. We are not held accountable. If people don't relate to our writing, so what? They don't read it. Big deal. But, this will be new. This will be real people engaging in real writing. And it's face to face and that is scary and pretty much precisely what I nee