Write on Wednesday 10-8-08

Words are a form of action, capable of producing change. Ingrid Bengis Write on Wednesday is a great blog you may have seen floating around, providing prompts each Wednesday for writers to muse over. Reading today’s prompt and skimming through the prompts of the past few weeks, I began to wonder what the mentality is when analyzing these prompts for a reader v. a writer. The quote above, can apply to both. Writer’s write to put ideas into motion, to initiate change, and it is the readers that read the words, who interpret those words and apply them to their own life in some way. Words incite action, good or bad. Last week was banned book week. Each of the book that had been banned had one commonality. They were banned to prevent a form of change that certain people deemed inappropriate. Change of ideas. Change of beliefs, change of actions. We can’t reliably say that words produce only good change. Change is change, and you make do with what you have,...