So What? Why Not Find Meaning and Write?
Have you ever felt drawn to writing and irritated, at the same time, that you haven't been published yet?
Have you ever tried to make sense of your history or your relationships by writing about them, and then felt better, a little healed, after making an effort to clarify your thoughts and ideas?
Have you ever tried to make sense of your history or your relationships by writing about them, and then felt better, a little healed, after making an effort to clarify your thoughts and ideas?
Do you have a clear imagination and create stories about other people?
Do you listen to stories and learn, really discern and evaluate, how they're told and written?
Do you want to educate people?
Do you want to move emotions in your listeners and readers?
***If so, maybe you're a writer.***
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A writer is simply anyone who can write. In the larger world context, of course, a writer is someone who can successfully move other people to feel and act through the word choices they make and the powerful effects their words have on others.
As readers, we read stories, articles, and books. We read with our senses. We see with our eyesight and understand figuratively. We hear the noises of the marketplace, touch the vegetables and fruits, smell the spicy aromas, and ultimately sink our teeth carefully into the tasty morsels.
Why do we read? We want---need---to learn, to be moved, to be entertained with all our senses. We want to be more fully alive.
Writers must be able to deliver to all our senses. We must reward our readers for taking the long private journey to our humble destination, for however long they stay and appreciate our humble offerings.
Words. That's all we have to offer on the page. The beginning and the end. Blood of our blood and flesh of our flesh. Words are our own. We live and breathe our thoughts and ideas. We make them whole in our writing. We complete them.
If you love to write, just do it. And keep on doing it. Do it for yourself. Do it for others. Do it whether you're tired and haven't any energy. Simply stop and write when you don't have any time, on form of medium available. Don't wait for the perfect time to write, the perfect circumstance, the best idea.
The perfect moment to write is now when you're thinking. Start whenever.
It's the perfect moment and it's time to be in the midst of life. So write. Tell others who will come after you what you know. You may not think you know much. But when you sit still, think calmly, and allow your thoughts and ideas to flow into words and messages, you'll be surprised how much of yourself you can freely give to others.
Writing is generosity in action. It's taken me years to understand this. Years I've waited, far too long, until the time or the place to write would be perfect, or I'd be old enough, strong enough, to quell any criticisms. Years until I stopped listening to others saying to wait, and realized the hardest part of writing is the starting of the task, just as it is with gardening, cooking, and cleaning. It's about changing gears, and getting into the spirit. I can put on my virtual apron, and enjoy the opportunity. It's a privilege, and it's optional.
We aren't forced to write---except inasmuch as we feel inside our minds it's the time. As writers, we're driven. It's the appropriate action to take, and the highest and best use of our time.
Through many hundreds, if not thousands of years, those with the leisure to write have taken the time and effort to place thoughts and ideas onto a lasting repository.
Archives of writing in various venues have kept:
*Records of births and deaths.
*Records of monarchies, governments, and wars.
*Journals of the nobility.
*Fables to educate children.
All of these and more have attracted the efforts of the most noble in society. There is a nobility in writing. It's not at all shameful. It's a tool of education. Certainly, it's exciting and useful. Indeed, some say it's "the best" profession. Write whenever possible.
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