A MORDERN TREATISE ON WRITING The art of writing.

And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing. "Read, read, read. Read everything  –  trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window." – William Faulkner Writing comes with a sudden out burst of inspiration which you have to be deliberate to catch otherwise it's completely lost to the cemetery of destruction. Whenever inspired, make sure you pen it down because an inspiration not ably captured in the heat of the moment will only be diluted into watered fountain that lacks it's original taste. Writing can be akin to cooking which when the right ingredients is not put at the right time will only become a subject of abysmal to the taste buds "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." – Toni Morrison Writing is an art of indescribable power and influence The world has been so much wired from time immemorial within the invisible forces of the Cosmo to give the unusually creative writer an atmosphere of seemingly vastless opportunities to harness his potential to the highest cadre by writing on everything that the human eyes can see, the senses can perceived, feel and meet, the hands can Touch, what the mind in it's vastless potential is able to fabricate from the imperial realm of glorious and unanticipated creativity "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." – Robert Frost The expanse covered by writing as regards it influence is just incomprehensible to the understanding of the mortal man Tears is simply writing in liquid form and that's why when people don't know what to say or they are perhaps in a situation that has completely encumbered them to the shore that they lost all hopes, that is why they burst into tears "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." – Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing You see, it's described as bursting into tears because this is a realm in which the victim just like a group of water held up in a cistern below it's capacity rushes sporadically and continuously against it until it bursts out from it in an uncontrollable Manner, just as man bursts into tears in a mire or a seemingly endless manner in this circumference called Existence And the vision of all this has become to you like the words of a book which is shut, which men give to one who has knowledge of writing, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I am not able to, for the book is shut: That's why women burst into tears when they have seemingly done all they can to get their husbands unendingly drifting attention or to turn a new live That's why HUMANS bursts into tears during bereavement of a love one or the demise of a love one of a dearest friend Writing is WORDS In liquid form in that what you say is never forgotten but is everlastingly written in the heart of all those who heard it when you uttered it but you utter blessings and curses from the conduit of your frail lips "Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly  – they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced." – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World What you say is not forgotten but immediately seared into people's heart by invisible forces against their will for all eternity which is then reawakened when a similar event to that where those words in liquid form where uttered aeons ago What you say in the moment is never forgotten but is forever seared into the souls of the plants growing quietly in the background What you say in the moment is not lost but hovering in the atmosphere for all eternity completely lost to your decoding and ability to see, touch and feel "How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." – Henry David Thoreau What you say is assumed by the environment, and it becomes part of it, as the environment becomes part of it as well, as they reach a synergistic apocryphal In this split of a dial called time Even the leaves of trees, Reels, grasses, the jungle and even the forest are not Left out on the everlasting impact of seared words in their hearts even though it is against their will And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing. What you say is never forgotten but completely lost to your own transcient mind of recovery but completely seared to the hearts of the rocks, mountains, caves, valleys, streams, oceans, lakes, ponds,seas,and vegetations around us even as against their immortal will and they are foreverly sentenced to the realm of rememberance when a similar occurrence like that happens which Is orchestrated by man, thereby opening seemingly painful old wounds "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." – Anne Frank Possessing the ability to travel through time may not bring with it all the joys and pleasures we naturally desire Man cannot even control his own fate, how does he then alter history with the pen of his infinite imagination? "A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." – Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades Writing is the invisible intermediary that connects the past to the future while remanding of the reality and the vastless potential to be harvested in the present Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come. Writing is the sharpest form of Memory we got either in this split of a dial called time or in or in the vastless heaven of indescribable awe, as even the Creator before the beginning began wrote and brought into existence Creation and all the firmament, the spheres that makes up this realm and finally man to exercise everlasting dominion on this side of the divide Counting is Numerical writing which was an activity the early man who was discovered to have dwelt in caves filled with seemingly unending darkness during the stone and hunter gatherers age partook In with so much pride and a deafening order of palpable arrogance At times when I meditate aloud on my bed, I ask myself, “has there ever been any specie of the human race or profession in human activity that has not employed the indescribable benefit of writing to enhance it's productivity?” "Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college." – Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country Who would you say on earth doesn't write? Is it Politicians?, they write their speeches, propagandas and their plans for the next projects or even electioneering campaigns and obvious gerrymandering tendencies Is it Tailors?, they write, by putting down the exact measurements they took of their clients, so they can do a great job Then the Lord answered me and said, “Record the vision And inscribe it on tablets, That the one who reads it may run. Writing has been so developed that one can write virtually on anything he so desires to write about now, or whatever one can conjure from the invisible realm of his infinite imagination Never say in the heat of intense inspiration that you will pen down your thoughts late because most times you never really do, which makes the inspiration to add to the infinite wealth of the cosmos Any where you find yourself and you are prompted to write, please do "Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." – Franz Kafka Even if it is amidst trees, or in the throng of civilization or by the wallows of market women All writing is a double edged sword which we must learn to use wisely Write all the time you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, by all the manner you can, for All the reasons you can, and for all the people you can “Oh that my words were written! Oh that they were inscribed in a book! To be right you have to write As writing is what makes you right Only those who engage their minds fully to write ends up right Wishful thinking will not make you end up as a writer, it will make you end up as a full time practicing wisherman "I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in." – Robert Louis Stevenson To become a writer, you must be an entity that has achieved a state of oneness and cleaving to your pen and paper Then the Lord said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet and write on it in ordinary letters: Swift is the booty, speedy is the prey. Imaginative thinking will only make you dwell in the realm of fantasy and get lost in the euphoria of wishes in the hope that one day you may pen a Piece that is without guile and fault Wake up from your slumber my friend because writing is not wishes but a highly intentional activity embarked on by the writer in the quest of correcting yesterday's mistakes so he can make today better "You can make anything by writing." – C.S. Lewis The secret to writing is more writing as you will never truly emerge as a writer until you start writing, those who procrastinate that they will write in the evening or later on in the morning ultimately never become writers If you are currently living in a dreamers world with the intention of becoming a writer, you will just end up building castles in the air and without realizing it had wasted 50 years out of your life in a fleeting sojourn on the earth in wishful thinking of becoming a great writer, like OSCAR WILDE "A word after a word after a word is power." – Margaret Atwood "You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write." – Annie Proulx Then Baruch said to them, “He dictated all these words to me, and I wrote them with ink on the book.” Those who don't write in life and destiny never almost end up right Even more powerful than visualization, writing bridges the conscious and the subconscious mind. "Tears are words that need to be written." – Paulo Coelho Writing is a psycho-neuromuscular activity and literally imprints the brain. To test this, before you go to bed, write down three things you want to do or think about first thing in the morning and just see what happens. "To survive, you must tell stories." – Umberto Eco, The Island of the Day Before Writers are warriors of words For writers, the sole purpose of their finite existence in this split in the dial called time is to write and and write And write and write till they write out their orifice of inspiration, write themselves sour or simply due on their mortal desk on their seemingly unending writing escaped "Always be a poet, even in prose." – Charles Baudelaire For one to become a writer on must write, just like for one to become a potter one must use the potter's wheel to the point that they achieve oneness with the wheel and can even make pottery in the dark in a state of obvious and continuous eyelessness as the art of pottery and the Potter's Wheel has become his default mode of existence in which he has become a pal to Writers unlike warriors don't fight through wielding the sword, rather they simply wield the sword of the canvass of their invisible imagination ably coated in the inspiration of their mental orifice "If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster." – Isaac Asimov Writers like warriors war through inflicting their deepest pains on the paperic conversation of their fleeting and especially wounded hearts Writers get the invisible volumes of their works from Human machination and masochistic fantasies which they are compelled temporarily against their finite will by the dark forces of the unseen realm to document so as to ease them of the temporary feeling occasioned by the wickedness unleashed upon their poor souls by the forces of loving debauchery clothed in cloak of friendship woman sitting in front of black table writing on white book near window Photo by Hannah Olinger on Unsplash "The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself." – Albert Camus Writers write like it's the source of their breath Writing is to Writer what air is to a human "I write to discover what I know." – Flannery O'Connor The whole purpose and obsession of a writer is to keep on writing, dilating pieces of literature, that completely disenchants, and completely catches off guard, the poor Reader, who is unconscious of the maestro of a writer Once a writer, is always a writer "Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen." – John Steinbeck Only those who genuinely take out the contents of their hearts in the exact state at which they were conceived will ever become great writers Writing like every other art takes time and greater level of discipline to harness, build,develop, embrace, finesse, improve master, and ultimately become better "A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time – proof that humans can work magic." – Carl Sagan Good writing was never arrived at on the desk of infinite imagination and on the canvass of mere wishfulness Writing is the lifeline of the writer, it is his very core of existence, it has become infused with his being, he has achieved a state of oneness with his writing, infact writing comes naturally to him, he doesn't struggle to put pen to paper at all, "Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing." – Norman Mailer When he sleeps he writes, when he eats, he writes, when taking his bath, he writes, when walking on the road he writes, when talking to a friend he writes, when cooking, he writes, when swimming,he writes, when drinking water, he writes , when thinking or deeply meditating, he writes, when doing anything at all, his mind is ultimately saturated and conditioned with thoughts about writing Writing has completely consume his soul to the point that he has become lost to himself in record times, he is permanently exiled by the invisible pen(ial) guidance of his Mind to the perpetual and invisible prison of always penning down his everlasting wellspring of living inspiration which runs through his mind even faster than he can ever type or even worse pen down on paper "Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write." – Rainer Maria Rilke When he is inspired, he is completely lost to the temporal existence of his environment while being completely immersed in the fleeting everlasting realm that rushes through his pour mind like the water rushes down the Mariana Trench in the deepest part of the everlasting Pacific Liquidity called Mind When writing, nothing else matters to a writer, except his continuous and unending spring of fresh and everlasting inspiration completely dazzling the bearings of his finite mind, which keeps him perpetual acuity in the everlastingly fleeting split of inspiration in the realm called Subconscious "As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand." – Ernest Hemingway In that Realm, he is completely lost to the intricacies of his mortal self and completely lost to the machination and manipulation of his infinite mind In that state, the inspiration Becomes the writers permanent husband while he/she becomes the wife in the fleeting everlasting shade of temporary delirium called the orificial fountain of beyond indescribable and capturable wealth of human inspiration like the grain of sand on the river, by the sea of glass found at the sea shore, beyond the week and piercing pupils of man down the glistening and glistering ocean floor "A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends." – Friedrich Nietzsche In almost all cases, you will have a consciousness of those these things when you first wake up in the morning But there’s a literary form I haven’t mentioned yet: the literature of witness "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do." – Thomas Jefferson Writing is a liberal and emancipating art that emanates from Deep in the cavernous and catacombic chambers of the subconscious mind A writer records her story as best she can; then she hides it, trusting that it may be discovered later, by someone who is free to understand it and share it "If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative."  – Elmore Leonard This is an act of hope: every recorded story implies a future reader Robinson Crusoe keeps a journal "Writers live twice."  – Natalie Goldberg So did Samuel Pepys, in which he chronicled the Great Fire of London So did many who lived during the Black Death, although their accounts often stop abruptly "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme." – Herman Melville So did Roméo Dallaire, who chronicled both the Rwandan genocide and the world’s indifference to it So did Anne Frank, hidden in her secret annex "Words are a lens to focus one's mind." – Ayn Rand There are two reading audiences for Writer’s account: The one at the end of the book, at an academic conference in the future, who are free to read but not always as empathetic as one might wish;and the individual reader of the book at any given time "I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within." – Gustave Flaubert That is the “real” reader, the Dear Reader for whom every writer writes And many Dear Readers will become writers in their turn "Writing is its own reward." – Henry Miller That is how we writers all started: by reading We heard the voice of a book speaking to us. "A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God." – Sidney Sheldon In the wake of the recent elections in democracies across the globe, fears and anxieties proliferate Basic civil liberties are seen as endangered, along with many of the rights for women won over the past decades and indeed the past centuries "I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged." – Erica Jong In this divisive climate, in which hate for many groups seems on the rise and scorn for democratic institutions is being expressed by extremists of all stripes, It is a certainty that someone, somewhere – many, I would guess – are writing down what is happening as they themselves are experiencing it "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." – Douglas Adams Or they will remember, and record later, if they can Will their messages be suppressed and hidden? "Half my life is an act of revision." – John Irving Will they be found, centuries later, in an old house, behind a wall? Let us hope it doesn’t come to that. I trust it will not "Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything really good." – William Faulkner If you don't want to be forgotten when you have made your everlasting exuent into the other side of the divide, then do these two things; either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing Writing can be likened to staking up your self within the annals in the sands of time in the realm called eternity from where your name will never be erased from the wooden house of everlasting memory in this split of a temporary dial called time "Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being." – A. A. Milne Writers are powerful agents of everlasting change, as they possess in their seemingly frail skeletal phalanges the power to topple civilizations, disrupt machineries of state pilotship,upend governance,use the element of sacred information at their disposal to cause an overarching revolution of global effect, foreverly shatter the economy of both great and rising nations Writers possess in their hands an instrument that can entirely desensitize the children of society to either be reduced to everlasting miscreants, urchins, prodigals through the channel of books written to influence the curricular system within a particular timeframe in a situated academic continent for as long as time continue to run If we could control time, travel to and fro from the future to the past, can we really change fate and rewrite history? Mankind has always explored the riddles of time through our writings about space, Time and Celestial bodies permanently towering above this realm Scientist have actually discovered that time is speed, and if we could master the secret of speed, then we can control time and thus control the past and the future Even faster than light is the concept of Sound and so the whole of mankind waits for the technology that will finally break the speed of sound Some remains of ancient civilizations actually shows us that they have transversed the speed of time And there are those who exist only in time and have emerge as time travelers in the infinitum called time by simply mastering the art of time white printer paper on brown wooden table Photo by pure julia on Unsplash “THE ABILITY TO BORROW GREAT IDEAS FROM OTHER WRITERS AND IMPROVE ON IT WITH A GREAT TOUCH OF ORIGINALITY COMPLETELY DEFYING AND DAZZLING THE CHAMBERS OF HUMAN IMAGINATION IS WHAT MAKES YOU METAMORPHOSE AS A GREAT WRITER AND AN EVERLASTING ENIGMA OVER TIME. SO LEARN TO ALWAYS SHARPEN YOUR PEN IN THE ART.” -Diffson James Never hold a writer in perpetual derision, Because he holds in his seemingly frail phalanges the so-called destiny of the society in which you have completely come to be in tandem with and your children's seemingly unending misery and fulfilment Learn to respect a writer because they are the museums of the past,muzzein of the present realities and everlasting observatory of the future with it's irreconcilable differences and seemingly indistinguishable penury and seemingly unending joy and streams of outright fulfilment THE WRITER IS FOREVER MORE POWERFUL THAN THE WARRIOR Because without the instrumentality of the writer, the warrior will be forever lost to the art of war that great generals before him employed in the school of Battle which has made them victorious and always scalding and hanging the cadavers of their enemies on the poles of everlasting memory for folks of other enemies to behold them, so they can cower and shiver In the everlasting impact of the gory display ably implanted in their defiant skulls thereby putting them in everlasting patronage to their invisible overlords who have gained mastery over them through the instrument of blooded and undiluted savagery "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." – Anaïs Nin WRITERS use the currency of the pen to reenact Everlasting dictums that forever alter people's lives in this part of the split of a dial called time whenever they are chanced to come in contact with them WRITERS ARE FIGHTERS WRITERS ARE RIGHTERS WRITERS ARE EVERLASTING SHAPERS OF CIVILIZATION I LOVE BEING A WRITER RIGHT NOW AND TILL THE END OF MY SOJOURN ON THIS FLEETING AND TEMPORARY EXISTENCE ON THIS SPATIAL CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE DIVIDE. 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