Writer’s Reflections

There is no use writing anything that has been written before unless you can beat it. What a writer in our time has to do is write what hasn’t been written before or beat dead men at what they have done. -Ernest Hemingway

I confess, Ernest Hemingway’s words hit home. 

I think to myself, is what I’ve written what needed to be written? Was it written better than others? The answer is probably no.

 So I reflect on the future of my writing. What can I write that hasn’t been written before? How can I write better than “dead men at what they have done”? I hope you were not expecting an answer. I am making this up as I go.