Just words

Write, write and write some more. Our words outlast our memory.

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 to assist. 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?
                           Coyote/John Castellenas


                 

Author's Note

Just words

Reviews

[Otsana]

I agree that we should be encouraging writers to continue to write and always look for the talent in a piece of writing. Everyone has such different styles of writing and in the end it all comes down to perspective, some of the greatest writers in the world have been questioned and looked down on because of their style of writing but to me writing is a form of art and you express yourself through it and how you are feeling in that moment.
This was a very interesting piece, thank you for sharing.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Otsana foe reading. We need more writers. A better world if we try to understand all people, places and customs.

[Rita L. Sev]

So glad I came upon this piece today - your words, and those of these other wise writers, were just what I needed today.

[Coyote Poetry]

I'm glad. Thank you Rita for reading and the comment.

[E G TEN]

Hey CP, such wonder of words you had constructed here, along
with some words of wisdom immortalized by our Heroes and
Influences in writing as general, thanks for sharing this piece! :-)

[Coyote Poetry]

You are welcome. I have believed for a long time. Us writers must help each other.

[h d e rushin]

My only fear is writing the same poem over again, and that should also be your only fear. So writing
is a selfish act, at best yet a universal act, at it's worse. Would the world be a better place to live
if everyone was literate? Perhaps. But that ethnocentric statement suggests that 'my' literacy
is the one what should be adopted.

I agree. "never a negative comment in public places". Humility is the only true poetry.
Beautifully expressed my friend. And righteous instructions to follow.

dana

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you Dana. Good to give advice in private. We are here to learn.

[steven sundell]

I appreciate your words of advice, and I will leave you with one more bit of advice, once offered to me, words may indeed, be a crude form of communication, but since it's all we have, we should choose wisely.Moreover, not unlike musical theory, I.e. the loudest or strongest musical note, is the rest, in between....anyway thanks again.

[Coyote Poetry]

Thank you for the knowledge. I use the music to make me write. Good song make us think and dream. I appreciate the comment.

[Michael Wright]

Great motivation and it is never just words

[Coyote Poetry]

I know and I agree. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[Saraswati]

i took your words seriously,and trying to implement :)..a very special thanks :)

[Coyote Poetry]

Just logic learn from the ancient writers. Dryden said it often. Write, write and write some more. Leave something for the future. Good or bad. History of the past need to be remembered. Thank you Leonaida for reading and the comment.

[Saraswati]

I really appreciate,writing something is really not very easy,many a time it happened that even if i wrote anyhting with my full conviction and determination it did nt came out to be the best...so i feel that our imaginations should be able to match with readers expectations and understanding...you are right ,even me when i used to read some of the novels of our local authors ,i really used to hate about the ambiguity and confusions that revolve around a characters identity place time ...so eventually loosed interest reading as every novel i pick up from a book store or a book fare ..even from a street seller..it turned out to be same...your way of judgement is is really helpful

[Coyote Poetry]

Need more word men and word woman. Government fear a educated people. Education and knowledge keep us free.

[Perkele.7885]

Just words, my love affair, revealed to all! Like describing a lover with words of love, you can describe me as a lover of words. With out them, we are still in the stone age, with them, we are on the precipice of an infinite tomorrow.

[Coyote Poetry]

I agree. When we don't read or write. We will become empty shells. Knowledge keep us free and strong. Thank you for reading and the comment.

[wordman]

and smart words, they are ;
sometimes, they hit the wrong spot.and we react without thinking !

[Coyote Poetry]

They can. But old Grandpa saying. "Nothing good to say. Say nothing." Thank you wordman for reading and the comment.

[wordman]

you are welcome john.

[Willard Wells]

My take away which has been my view for some time is "Just words, Words can change our world". So many writers from around the world come together and write of peace for all, maybe someday. Thanks for writing..

[Coyote Poetry]

I hope and wish. Would take a billion people to make the leaders know. War does not create peace.

[Willard Wells]

War is only the continual fight for dirt that will be there in a million years for someone else to fight over. It does not care and is not going anywhere, but it is fought over.