Hard. It is soooooo darned hard. That single word captures the whole essence of the problem. Intransigent, stubborn, obstinate, intractable, unyielding... I know, you got the point three adjectives back. I'm venting and there is plenty of white space on my computer screen, so you'll have to indulge me. The obdurate problem I'm referring to is communication, or more precisely how certain people perceive certain statements in a certain way even though there is no empirical evidence to support their perception. How can people read between the lines when your proposition consists of a single line!!!!!

The fact that I'm a writer makes this whole issue all the more frustrating. Our JOB is to take amorphous ideas and give them shape in a way that communicates meaning to all of the interlocutors involved. We are tasked with the dirty work of gathering various 'memes' and putting them together with syntactical cement in a way that creates a mental picture. Somehow, the fact that communication is at the heart of my job description hasn't made it any easier. I guess if it were easy everyone would be doing it. And that is no consolation either. Maybe all I'm really saying here is that writing is work. HARD, HARD work....



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