this bell tolls for an old man by the sea

"Writing isn't hard, you just sit at the keyboard and bleed."


Have you ever been called a coward?  Have you ever had a random person that you have never and will never meet sling an atrocious tittle in your direction via a keyboard?  I have been called everything by humans in more countries than I can count.  I have allowed the better thoughts from the last four years find their escape through my fingers and the best of those have been apprehensively presented for public consumption.  Never, not once did it feel painful or exposing to write those words.  Maybe Hemingway was right, maybe writing is little more than a hemorrhage, something we are all capable of.  Bleeding, however, doesn't hurt.  There is only one thing that hurts more than an uneducated, ignorant retch of a human being attempts to belittle you in a public forum because of what you have written.  That is when no one says a thing.