Just words…


 

——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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