I got an ad in my inbox last week announcing…” Words, often being criticized as being too concrete, have been slowly falling out of favor, with authors preferring to tell their tales via pop ups, photographs, and interpretative ketchup blobs.”
Disclaimer: This was an ad for a “book” of personal photographs at a discount but I can’t help but comment….
I love words. I love writing. I love reading. As I’ve written before I think of writing as meditation, as a form of stress relief.
Sidebar here: We all need a stress relief “practice”, a number of tools in your tool box that work for you. Not your mother. Not your best friend. For YOU.
But back to writing and words….
While I agree that a “picture speaks a 1000 words”, and I must admit that 140 character tweets are here to stay (190 million people can’t be wrong), words have not fallen out of favor in my book.
Enough words from me….
”Write what’s in here (your heart) because you write because it pleases you but never because you want someone else to like what you’ve said.” “There are stories everywhere and the people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.” “That’s all writing is, capturing sights and thoughts on paper. Spinning, like a spider does, but using words to make the pattern.” From The Distant Hours by Kate Morton.
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