Words on Paper

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and deal with it...

It has to go somewhere. ​

​- Lucinda Williams

That's right, paper. There is something to be said for keeping a writing surface nearby -- putting away the laptop, and perching wherever I feel like putting pen to paper, and freeing that long-time lyric -- from hovering in my head, onto the back of a recipe card, napkin, book flap, map, paper sack, white board -- whatever porous platform accessible to receive the thought or the dream before it blows away. (Yes, I even have note cards in my SUV console.)