THE WRITTEN WORD - © 1994

Putting pen to paper

Is not as easy as it seems

Writing down on notepads

What comes to you in dreams

When writing about facts

It’s no good if it’s fiction

The logic and the rhetoric

The grammar and the diction

When writing about fiction

You’ve got to know your facts

As the written word that you lay down

Will be shown up for what they lack

So I’m off to library shelves

To see what I can gather

To put my ideas of faction

Without my critics being in a lather