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Each Day Already is a Challenge #490057 added May 26, 2007 at 12:22am
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No, I never said that...
Recently, another writer was trying to feed my own words back to me. She thought that I had said that everyone was a writer. No, I certainly never said that!
In today's world, everyone writes, but being able to write an email or blog does not make one a writer.
Although there is a language created just for text messaging and chatting, it is one that even old farts can learn.  My mother used to use just an "L" rather than "LOL" in her emails. When I asked her about that, she said, "Of course I'm laughing out loud. Have you ever known me to stifle a laugh?" She was right. She also knew that she could get hurt if she actually did ROFL.
On the news a few days ago, they showed a list of words used in text messaging. I was reminded of the first classes I had in speedwriting many years ago. In the first lesson, we just eliminated vowels. In the next one we learned a few one-letter codes to use for entire words. Yep, that's what came to mind with the list of code words for text messaging.
Back to the subject. Although more folks are writing messages, that doesn't mean they are writers. But I do believe that many are writers - at heart.
The need to write words on a page or computer screen is something that grows within us until we finally have to succumb. Some begin writing at an early age. Others stave off the desire to write until they have raised children or other tasks that they decided were more important than the aching in their hearts to write.
Often times, people have been discouraged from writing from those who have no creative desires in their own hearts. They don't understand that ache within the person who must create or design.
Eventually, though, every writer begins writing, and once a person has begun committing words to the page, the writer is born. Yes, I believe that folks who write - real writing, not just emails and text messages - are writers. But just as in any field or facet of life or work, there are writers and then there are writers.
In spiritual terms, some folks talk about "baby Christians." They say that baby Christians are those who have accepted Christ as Lord, but who have not taken steps to develop their relationship with Him. They may pray and read the Bible and go to church. But their prayers are still a laundry list of wants and have-to-haves, just like a child pleading with a parent. The baby Christian has not yet learned to sit and be still and quiet and listen for God to touch his or her soul. He has not yet delved into the Word. She has not sought her true purpose, the one for which she was created. One can be a baby Christian throughout a lifetime, always believing, but never really becoming a true follower of Christ.
And so it is with writers. Having the desire in one's heart and then acting upon that desire and writing makes one a writer. But one can be and stay in the "baby writer" stage throughout a lifetime.
But wait!!!!
Someone suggested that this might make a good item on it's own. Perhaps it will. So...if you want to read the rest of this, click here:
Sorry, guys. This entry was getting rather long...
Anyway, I think I might just need a nap. I'm starting to feel like I'm shutting down. I'm getting warm, my mind is getting a bit fuzzy and my eyelids are starting to droop. Those are all signs that my fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue are taking control of the day.
I hate it when that happens.
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