When you’re a writer, do you look to the things that are happening inside yourself, or outside of yourself? Or do you, and should you, do both? Beginning writers often start out writing about themselves, and this is certainly not a bad thing. Eventually, as we mature, we can begin to feel ourselves capable of forming thoughts, and responses to the things happening ‘out there’.
We write, share our words, get feedback from others and gain respect for what we write and say, and we realise we can help to influence our world, using our words and the gravitas gained from sharing them. So when we reach that stage in our writing career, surely it’s time to look outside of ourselves, and to write about topical things, events happening ‘out there’ in the real world.
Gaining respect, utilising your mind, and talents with words, gives you the chance to work at helping to make a difference, to assist in opening up the minds of other people. It’s possibly true that you don’t feel qualified for this role, but step up and do it anyway. There are so many people using their words, but they’re using them for selfish reasons, not the good reasons you would be doing it for.
Step up, reach out, write, and read out what you have written, bravely, and without fear or favour! Your time has come. I am always humbled when people tell me they find me inspiring. Yes I’m humbled, but also excited, that another person has seen what I can do, and they can begin to think they can do these things too.
I’m not anything extraordinary, I’m just one person, punching above my weight perhaps, but using my talents to do all I can, to do good, in the ways I’m capable of doing. Writing, and authentically connecting with others, are my major skills. I use those skills when I can, reaching out to others, writing on things that seem important to my various ‘communities’. Friends, family, others, writers, community-driven people, working together, bringing a greater good.
When you have opinions on topical issues, use your words and your mind, to explore the issues, write, think, write again, and share. Words help you to gather together your opinions, and once you’ve gathered those opinions, send them out, poetry, prose, however you can, get it down, then get it out, into your greater world. The writers/thinkers, the creatively minded ones will be the ones who can bring us all together, fighting for a common good.
We must do this, and connect with other people to do more of it, otherwise we are likely to be overtrodden, victims of ‘the market’, and the lack of vision that seems to be overrunning so many things at the moment. Politicians don’t care about people, their care about votes. But we, the people, are the voters, our vote, and our word, is what the politicians should fear, not want. Speak out, so the government realises they must pay attention to what we, the people, have to say!
Don’t be docile, grazing in the field the government wishes you to remain in, crash through, or you, we all, will crash, victims of lack of proper thought, and lack of true Vision. We can do this, with our words, and our heart and minds. Together. Are you with me?
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 