The Writer
Posted on Wednesday, 22 February 2017
The Writer
By Apolinario Villalobos
A true writer should be sensitive to the
feelings of others, be they read as expressly written or viewed as shown
through actuations. He should be able to develop any form of literary
expression out of spoken words or written “bullet statements”. With facebook as
an example, an adept writer should be able to develop a poem out of the
comments on a certain posted photo. Comments about the photo are the “thoughts”
of the facebook owner who posted it and a poem that is developed out of them by
a writer should be rightly attributed to him….the writer being just the
“editor”.
The writer should not constrain himself
from writing the name of the source of the thoughts in the byline of a literary
expression, be it a poem or an essay. Many people are frustrated writers and
poets. They have thoughts that float in their mind, but they just do not know
how to capture them. They may enumerate the words down but they do not know
which to put ahead of the rest, which of them to comprise the content, and
which word to end their presentation. This is where the writer-friend comes
in….lend a hand….put substance to the words or discerned thoughts that are not
yet expressed but are expected, as feelings are universal and interpretations
vary only according to situation, but words are the same.
Some people show signs of literary talent
but are shy to let them out. Their latent talent is discerned through the kind
of words that they use in making comments on facebook posts or in the way they
use them. These are the people who should be given utmost understanding. In the
end, if the effort has made somebody happy, exert more of it….help many more
shy people. This is what a “writer” should do…encourage others to express
themselves.
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