The secret of writing, according to Sinclair Lewis, Nora Roberts, Robert Benchley, Stephen King, Oliver Stone and other luminaries, is to “apply the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair”. Perspiration, then, rather than inspiration. If you wait for inspiration to strike, you can be waiting a long time (while intimating that the ability to string words together coherently is a ‘gift’ over which we have no control).
Licensed today: a point in Calderdale where road, rail, river and canal cross and recross, like the braided flex of an old-fashioned telephone. It's a good vantage point, though I'm sure I could get a better shot if I tried again...
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