Writing About Writing About Writing

With a sigh, I put down the ebook and push my phone off to one side. The empty paper bowl from the microwave lunch I ate on my break sits in front of me, a discarded, partly cheese-encrusted shell.

I open up my notebook, find the next blank page, and as I have done so many, many times over the years, I write the date at the top, and then begin. "I remember days writing," I write, "where I scribbled words just to write, chasing that feeling of inspiration."