The World Without Writers
Kiss Barnes & Noble good-bye, say farewell to the evening news, wave “See Ya Later” to the Sunday morning paper and give Hallmark Greeting stores a going away hug. Welcome to a world without writers!
Everyday, people all over the world spend millions, billions or is it trillions on movies, books, magazines, greeting cards, newspapers and compact discs. People are after you. You, the writer! It’s been said that money makes the world go around but, I say without your hard work and dedication there would be much less to spend money on. Your work is what makes the world go around.
Most forms of entertainment and leisure activities that we enjoy as humans involve words. Your favorite movie most likely wouldn’t be your favorite movie if there wasn’t a script. Simply a long, drawn out pantomime. Every song on the radio would be an instrumental if there wasn’t anyone to write those hit lyrics. Bookstores would go out of business if it wasn’t for you-the writer. Greeting cards, newspapers and magazines.
Well, what are those? The world wouldn’t know if it wasn’t for writers. Now, imagine if only artist and photographers were responsible for creating textbooks for schools (without writers). That would be interesting. We’d no longer have textbooks, they would all be picture books. The world without writers. Try to imagine that!
If money makes the world go around, we should be getting paid more to keep it spinning, or should I say spending? Stop and think for a moment, if every writer laid down their pen (my writing instrument of choice) and refused to write another sentence for a year. What would happen? It’s a good thing that we love what we do enough to share our thoughts and ideas without expecting too much. We are certainly underpaid.
Writers around the world, thank you for doing what you do! Thank you for the scripts, greeting cards, novels, lyrics, directions on products, magazines and newspaper articles and articles published on Triond . I’m not sure what I would do without you all.
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July 30th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Great thought!
August 3rd, 2007 at 7:02 am
love the article
August 5th, 2007 at 11:29 am
Very interesting ….. this isn’t just about writing, but creativity in general. We talk about “writing” music for example, thus if all the writers put their writing implements of choice down there would be no music. This is not simply playing on words here: we’re all creative in our own ways and we use that creativity for all sorts of things such as communication, expressing ourselves, poetry, prose, music, art, dance, the list goes on!
So …. bring the writing on!
July 8th, 2009 at 8:14 am
art of any type truly is becoming obsolete in our society. sad.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Good point. I have always enjoyed writing, even in the baby/toddler years when the most creative thing I wrote was a grocery list!
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Id be lost if I was told I had to stop writing on Triond or Bukisa now.Especially if book writers had to stop writing to, Id have to reread all the books I had over again..Barnes and Nobles is my best friend!Writing is my outlet to handle the stress I’m under and other things,without it id be a basket case.And without writing, other fields like music,dance and other things would be affected to.But some things that require reading or writing is becoming hard to find at times,I saw this first hand at a restaurant this week…a very sad situation.Other then that, a terrific article from a writer and a bookworm that never wants to reform anytime soon.
December 23rd, 2009 at 9:29 am
The world would suck without writers! Thanks for the enjoyable read!
December 23rd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
true, -but without writer, illiteracy rates would not matter either I guess.. ;->