Writing is really quite simple; all you have to do is sit down at your typewriter and open a vein.  Red Smith Open a vein . . . quite simple?  I think not.  Painful . . . most definitely.  Messy . . . usually. In the days of early medicine when people would be under the daze of a high fever, doctors would open their veins to bleed out the “bad blood” so that the person might heal. Do successful writers open a vein?  Do writers who resonate with people bleed out?  In doing so, do writers heal? Does the…