Building a Beautiful Moat

Everyone or just a few?

I write for myself. I write to keep the demons from scaling the walls of my carefully constructed castle. My castle moat. Kind of like Sherlock Holmes's Mind Palace but different. My moat is less about memory and more about protection. And not nearly as smart.

When I say demons, I mean the CGI kind of demons that you see in horror movie trailers that I am careful not to watch. Demons, zombies, monsters…they all love to scramble up walls too fast. There are slow zombies and fast zombies. I find the fast ones to be the more horrifying. The stuff of nightmares. I always wonder why anyone chooses to watch them, to invite them in, even if just through a screen. The real kind are plenty enough for the soul to battle.

I write, because writing, when you come right down to it, is thinking.

Maybe I should say, then, that I think for myself. And then I writ…