Writing - When the ideas in your head Shout to be let out

(update below)

Writing isn't something that you want to do, it's something that has to be done.  It's breathing and eating, if you don't do them you wither and die.  If you don't get all those ideas out of your head, onto paper, your brain will overload.  

The experts say, if you want to be a truly great writer, than you must do two things, write every day, and read.  Two things I enjoy the most.  This blog will help me with the first part.  The reading, well, sorry to say I still like the old fashioned paperback or hardback book.  Give me paper any day, over the electronic word.

My favorite two quotes are:

Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken -
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

And from Frank Herbert's Dune -
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Teaser...

The room was in the shape of a perfect cube. All four sides were exactly seven feet high by seven feet wide and were a bright shinny white that reflected the iridescent light fixtures to the point that there was a need for only three lights in the whole room. One light fixture in the center of the room in the ceiling, one light in the east corner of the room, and the last light in the west corner of the room. The only sound that could be heard, was the tick-tick-ticking of a 19th century coo-coo clock hanging on the south wall.