To write, you have to have words and ideas, and to make those things worth reading, you need to think about what you write.
I’m a poet, writer, editor and blogger, words are my main tool, and if I want to attract readers for my writing, I Writing little flaffy bits of not much may be fun for me to do, but to make it interesting to others, I need to take it a lot further, and add meaning and relevance to what I’ve written.
I’m the editor of a monthly newsletter, that goes out online as well as in hard copy at the end of every month. In fact instead of typing this on my laptop, I should probably be finishing off that newsletter, because the end of the month is approaching fast!
But I still have a little time, and hey, if it comes out after the end of October, and into early November, the world will not end … But I’ll try to get it done, it’s a volunteer role, but one I personally value, and I know that others appreciate.
Obviously I’m not thinking strongly enough about what I’m currently doing, but such is life. Times and doings go along their way, and it all merges into what is having a life, and doing things … I feel most writers would do their role as ‘a writer’ if they had a personal assistant to deal with the boring things, and also to crack the whip to keep them properly on track!
Some writers actually have such a person, but not me, and not most writers. If I were a well published writer, with a big publishing company waiting on me to write my successful books, the possibility of a personal assistant would be much greater, than my actual situation, which is as a published poet, sort of writing a new book, and a volunteer newsletter editor, and personal blogger, here and a couple of other sites, occasionally.
Thinking about my lackluster efforts in these things is slightly embarrassing, to be honest. I hope one day I may get myself under better control, but I hope no-one is holding their breath waiting for that, because to be honest, it’s probably never going to actually happen.
Thinking about such things though, that has given me this new article, I’m keying here right now, so that’s a valuable thing – thinking and writing, writing and thinking, here I am, working hard on something, and something interesting. I think so anyway.
I sure hope someone else thinks it’s interesting, and if they can leave a comment here to let me know, wow, that would be lovely!
So writers need to be both thinkers and wordsmiths, getting the thought processes happening, and capturing ideas, then turning those words into interesting pieces of writing, first perhaps for themselves, but also ultimately for others as well.
Earlier today I took three geranium cuttings, and I hope once I rescue them from the spot in my car I left them, and plant them out, they will grow, and produce the lovely flowers that attracted me to them as I was on a walk in my local town this morning.
That action, taking the cuttings, has lead to this piece of this article, and is likely to lead to further writing at another time, and when the flowers grow, may lead to different articles too. Geraniums are great plants, needing little but giving much.
Going on a walk can be the same, if you’re a writer – as you’re walking, you’re connecting with the area you’re walking in, seeing things, thinking about them, considering further possibilities of what you see, talking to other people as well perhaps, and getting even more thoughts and ideas.
As life happens, so can new writing ideas happen. Bringing your life, to life for oth
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 