Dear Writer, about that broken pen

by ZacharyWGilbertMay 10, 2017

Dear Writer,

Sorry, that I have been away for awhile. I have been busy on my journey to my first four year degree. I wont be earning it until I am 41 years old. Isn’t writing the same? Why do writers consider failure to be permanent within one failure, and one rejection. I tried to go to Art College in my twenties. I learned about story, and character development, but before my junior year was over, and I realized I was spread very, very thin, I quit. I thought my failure was permanent. It took years for my to dust myself off and try writing. Failure is only be temporary, if you get back up, and are perpetually trying. Dear Writer, your readers are out there, waiting for your tale. It may not be for everyone, but be assured, it is for them. Your next project may be your breakthrough project. Your next submission, might be the one chosen. I find joy in the act of writing. I will do so until I die. As for my readers, I will embrace them when we finally meet.

Lone Wolf at the table

by ZacharyWGilbertMay 5, 2017

“Most people, don’t do it that way,” lacing his fingers behind his head, he leaned back and let out and a sigh, “Most people,” he smirked under his peppered mustache, “don’t really see any thing wrong with leaving things the way they are.” I leaned forward, layed my gun on the table, and offered him a 40 year smile, “We’ll then, good news for ya, I am not most people.”