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May 18, 2020 10:11 pm


 

——The world is slower now. Time for us to stay at home. Create a masterpiece, write the great novel, sing a wonderful new song. Call a old friend, call a family member missed. The coronavirus has taught us. The simple things we shall miss when we are on a lock-down. Be careful, be safe……..

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Ernest Hemingway

 

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

Margaret Atwood
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. ~Anaïs Nin

Let me walk through the fields of paper
touching with my wand
dry stems and stunted
butterflies….
~Denise Levertov, “A Walk through the Notebooks”

Just words

A writer told me. You are too kind. Never a negative comment in public places. I told him. Negative words do not help. If you want me to assist you. I will assist in private.

My advice is simple for all writers. Every poem or story need the when, where, who, why and how of every action or situation. Must describe location, characters and the situation. Make each scene come alive.

I’m far from perfect. I need to edit more and stay in the same tenses. You can confuse and lose the reader when you jump around. A proper edit and re-read with patience, every poem or story. Seek help and be thankful when given.

Words, my friend.  Shared are gifts for us readers. If you don’t like style, subject matter or plot.  Don’t read. The world is large and wild. Better to learn and try to understand the words shared.

Just words. Words can change our world. For better or worst?

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Coyote/John Castellenas

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7 Responses to “Just words…”

  1. Beautiful words Coyote! Love these words!

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    By Carol anne on June 11, 2023 at 9:37 am

    1. Thank you dear Carol anne. I appreciate the comment.

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      By johncoyote on June 11, 2023 at 9:45 am

  2. Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.

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    By thereluctantpoet on August 2, 2021 at 1:40 pm

    1. Thank you my kind friend.

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      By johncoyote on August 2, 2021 at 3:14 pm

  3. Thank you for all that you have said… you inspire and give hope ❤️

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    By NeverSilenceTheMadness on May 19, 2020 at 12:28 am

    1. You are welcome and us, who love to read and write. We need to motivate people to create. Everyone had a story.

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      By johncoyote on May 19, 2020 at 9:20 am

      1. love it ❤️

        Liked by 1 person

        By NeverSilenceTheMadness on May 20, 2020 at 12:49 am

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