What It Means To Be A Writer

This is what it means to be a writer:

“Are you trying to be a hero?” he asked.

“I am trying,” I said, spitting the words with my tongue, “to be someone who cares.”

The words spat from my tongue in response. “I am trying to be someone who cares.”

My tongue spat my response upon him in a bitter rain. “I am trying to be someone who cares.”

        "I am trying," I said, "to be someone who cares."

It means to try a thousand words to get the right sound, the right emotion and then to try it all again from the beginning. It means to be a researcher of knowledge beyond us and the bridge between ideas. It is asking a question and trying to find its answer.