writer's angioplasty

actuaries may be the highest paid profession on the planet but i think the writing profession is equally tricky and highly underestimated.

from what little i know of actuaries, it requires a more than passing acquaintance with statistics, a certain degree of creativity and walking the mental equivalent of a glass coated tightrope- creating policies that take into account every caveat set forth by the organisation while ensuring claims actually get met.

writers (and by this i mean people who are genuinely trying to convey something in an articulate fashion) need to have their thoughts well-arranged. take a guy like kurt vonnegut- if you were to map out each of his ideas in any piece that he has ever written, the end result will look something like a processor chip with hundreds of transistors in perfect synergy.

i'd like to believe kurt vonnegut would've enjoyed that simile but i suppose that's not for me to say.

i don't have to elaborate on the need for creativity in writing. it's something that's been spoken about till armageddon and beyond.

and finally, that stellar quality of a good writer- responsibility. while the acturian is responsible to his organisation and a mass of the insured, the integrity of a writer, any writer extends above and beyond the zeitgeist. this realisation can be overwhelming, to say the least.

this, i'd like to believe is the root cause of a writer's block. or mine, anyway.

i'd like to bullshit you but i respect the time that you take to read this and it isn't worth filling precious moments with fillers you'll not digest. forgive me when i don't write. but don't forgive me when i write rot.

i only wish for one thing- that i could have an angioplasty for my writer's block and stent my creative arteries for as long as it takes...