Darcy Sautelet

What makes a writer? Most humans know the words of a language and the basic ability to create sentences verbally and on paper. So...why are we not all writers? Simple. Writers...are watchers of life who then want to convey what they see. Some people do this through a painting, some through the spoken word. Writers...love to put what they see into the form of the written word. We like to tell a story you may have missed and give you the story with all the little details...sight, sound, smell, touch....using nothing but simple words. Unlike an actor, we can not show you the expression, we must tell you in a way that your own brain creates the vision of the expression. We can not use paint to create the picture of a scenery to show you every rich color, but must again, give you the words to help you visualize the world we want you to see. We also, as writers have a great responsibility.

The Celts believed the power was in the spoken word. If you wrote it for others to read, you could no longer control who spoke the words and therefore had the power. For this reason, the Celts did not write, they passed the stories down orally to those they felt would use the words wisely. Those of us who write have a responsibility to understand we can not control who reads or speaks what we put into the written form. We must decide what damage can be done by our words. Reporters of life events should be able to report the facts and only the facts without infiltrating the words with their own feelings or beliefs. Writers of fantasy need to portray the story as fantasy and not fact. But we too, seek power with our written word-- the power to move the reader through thought and emotion. The desire for this power is what makes a writer.

What makes an Editor? Ahhhh....a Writer! Without writers who would Editors clean up after???