‘Breaking Rocks in the Hot Sun’

 

Re-using this Dana Summers depiction of what is perhaps the most often heard phrase in a writer’s life (couldn’t resist “sharing” it once more).   

 

Unfortunately, this is pretty much how every writer feels about the so-called “progress” of his or her work.  It can truly be a chisel and hammer process each and every day, giving a whole new meaning to the term, “Breaking rocks in the hot sun.”  Only it’s usually pounding away on the keyboard in a dark, secluded den, office, or “writing nook.”

   

Ah, yes, the writer’s life.

Summers, a graduate of The Art Institute of Boston, is a Massachusetts native whose career began as an editorial cartoonist, first at the Fayetteville, NC, Times, then the Dayton (OH) Times (now the Journal Herald), and  (since 1982) at the Orlando (FL) Sentinel.  There he not only has continued to draw editorially but also for his comic strip Bound and Gagged.

In syndication since 1985, Summers has won many awards, including some from the prestigious Overseas Press Club and Sigma Delta Chi, the Society of Professional Journalists.   Thanks Dana for lightening up a writer's day.