I’ve had more then a few lessons in piano playing and performance and I enjoy the practice of piano playing and the improvisation though I am hardly the avid player I can hold my own for a few short minutes of enjoyment. Still for all my practice of my fingers dancing on the black and white keys, playing piano has been more of a hobby for me then what writing and storytelling have always been to my storyteller heart and man-of-letters mind.

Creation is what I love best about writing. Though in all honesty it isn’t all together real “creation” but a gathering of thoughts, ideas, images experiences, and feelings to form something odd, something weird or something beautiful from the material of life.

There is nothing like the joy of starting from a blank screen or blank piece of paper and then with the first word, with the first sentence something appears out of the brain storms in your head to set you on a journey of wonder and enjoyment. The journey is what I like the most. My ideas, my morality and the very things I value most can some times just appear out of a string of sentences that all seem random but aren’t.

There is a place I’m trying to get to and a journey I’m on for adventure of it. I’m only seeing out of spyglass with one eye on the target area. The details of the story always seem to come slowly though I can some times see the complete image of the island a distance away while at sea on the journey. The distance is still faraway.

I find music most enjoyable to play and listen to with my ears and from my audiophile sensory memory but I find writing to be a different beast.

He’s been with me for a while yet and has been a hard animal to train low these three decades we’ve started out together. Writing hasn’t been easy for me to master. I find my writing to be lazy if not tempered with patience, practice and feed with reading writing can sure sleep easy or go into hiding when I’ve been neglectful.

You’ll have to excuse my poetic side it shows up some times so I’ll say this plainly: I love writing because it is the channel of motivation and imagination for me to craft my own worlds with a strange magic from my youth and a wisdom from the elders that came before me and taught me the way.

L. M. Parker