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Good morning, MAD Friends!
I once read about a study that showed that people would rather be electrically shocked than left alone with their own thoughts, but writers need to get quiet and patiently hear them.
"Before you learn to write well, to trust yourself as a writer, you will have to learn to be patient in the presence of your own thoughts. You’ll learn that making sentences in your head will elicit thoughts you didn’t know you could have. Thinking patiently will yield far better sentences than you thought you could make." --- “Where Do Sentences Come From?,” by Verlyn Klinkenborg, The Opinionator, New York Times, August 13, 2012
Yours MADly,
Mary Ann
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MAD about Words is the brainchild (and heartchild) of Mary Ann de Stefano. (It's named as a play on her initials and love for writing.) 
