If you’re a writer, who is your audience, who or what are you writing for? Writing for yourself is fine, and I’m sure for most writers, we might consider ourselves to be our first, and even main, audience.
But with our words, we have a mighty tool, words can change minds, can strengthen commitments, can bring about good things being done!
Do you have something that you feel passionately about, but are saddened because we feel you’re too small to do anything about it? Well you’re not too small, You have a voice, and your pen is mightier than the sword – so use it for good purposes!
Local papers accept letters to the editor, and will sometimes also accept well written articles – get the facts, and quotes from the experts, and tell your community all about what you’re passionate about, that you feel needs something done.
Gather your community to your cause, and you CAN make changes for the better! One person, with a crowd of like-minded others and with a voice, and the power to vote, you will become so much more than just one person!
Causes are never going to be made better if no-one ever comes to their aid. Whether your cause is climate change, a debilitating illness, disadvantaged school children, habitat for disappearing wild life, or something else, if you care about it, tell people about it, use your words to make others care too!
I have Multiple Sclerosis, and I have written about this illness, how it affects me, and others, and I have done fundraising for the MS Society SA & NT as well. With my words I’ve written about how it is for me, and how others manage with it as well, and so raising awareness.
Awareness is a tool to use to bring this issue closer to the minds of people, whether medical people, potential employers, those suffering with the illness, and the general public. Increase understanding can and will lead to greater understanding, and so life can get better in many ways.
One thing people may not understand, can lead to actions taken that affect the afflicted person, where if the general public were aware, they would not take those actions. One thing could be healthy people using car parks set aside for those with a disability.
They may only be using it ‘for a couple of minutes’, but that may mean the disabled person will have to park far from the entrance, or not even being able to find a park at all. Ignorance, is no excuse. If you’re not disabled, lucky you, make the most of your abilities, and walk!
If you’re walking your dog, and it has to answer the call of Nature, pick up afterwards, or else dogs may end up being banned from public places! I pick up after my dog, not my favorite thing to do, but I’m a responsible dog owner, as all dog owners should be!
I hope by writing about poop, I encourage others to also do the right thing!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 