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Roxanne writes,
Writers, Welcome Home...to the Words and
How They Empower Us
A Free Agent's Writing Support of New Writers with
Memoir, Academic, and Other Creative Tasks
We all know, consciously, unconsciously, intuitively, that words have
remarkable power. And most of us will be able to give examples.
Freelance writers will be the first to tell you what power a wrong word in a
document has when we mean to offer the “best job possible” and because
we miss it in the final proofreading we hit the send key and email an offer to
do the “breast job possible.”
Academic writers will recall what the teacher’s bloody red pen did to their
attitudes toward writing and to their egos, when returned work had words
like “terrible,” “awk,” or “Don’t quit your day job.”
Memoir writers will report in narrative comparisons the difference, in high
school, between being called “Foxy Roxy” and “Sweaty Betty.”
And history will remind us that words misused and/or misunderstood will go
from “concessions” to “ultimatums,” causing the bombing of Pearl Harbor;
from “Stay in the house or we will kill you” to “Stay in the house and we will
kill you,” forcing Afghanistan residents to walk the warfields. (1)
Words yield powerful results.
I discovered, like most freelance writers, fiction writers, most writers do,
that words were the keys to my freedom. I used them to talk my way into
being allowed to sleep over at a friend’s, drive a car, go to a party; and
then to talk my way out of punishments for actually sneaking into the prep
school dorms down the street, actually racing in the car, and actually
getting busted at a party that turned out to be a bash in an alley with a
case of beer.
So as a teen, I mostly used words to keep me sane when I was exiled to
my room for six months at a time—because the talking of words hadn’t
worked.
But as an adult, I have witnessed words at their most influential. As a full-
figured person, I have used words as positive affirmation, and lost weight.
As a friend of many who pray, I have seen their chants make illness
disappear. As an advocate for our elders I have watched words put in
memoirs free fifty-year fears. As an English teacher, I have trusted words
to inspire confidence that was corroded, to turn word worrying into
wonderful writing, to turn writing dread on its head and turn heads toward
graduation, diplomas, degrees. And as a freelance writer, I have made
words work as my main source of work…which I adore.
Positive words have positive effects.
Empirically proven to have a measured vibrational frequency, (2) words
have a vitality to encourage, to influence, to impact. We can speak to our
bodies in a way that will positively change their shape or condition. We
have seen how fitness and yoga gurus have metamorphosed, turned off
pain, walked on walls of fire, by chanting and thinking words...or a single
word. (3)
We can speak to our egos and elevate our self-esteem. We have seen how
meditation and mantras have made psyches glow.
We can use the positive words of prayer to heal, give and receive love,
grow and evolve. We have seen people like the man who talks to water (4)
change the chemistry of a property with the alchemy of words.
The freelance writer knows this when he creates web content that shines;
the English teacher knows this when she speaks in words that make her
students laugh. The web copy gets readers interested, the humorous
classroom or text gets students learning.
Words connect us, heal us, keep us sane. Positive language brews
banquets of love and brings on baskets of love. Meaningful words bring in
money, create beauty, and make and keep us free.
You might have figured out by now: I am a word loving writer...a freelance
writer, a free agent memoir writer who helps our elders
create their own memoirs, their own
power, a writer of poetry and of creative
nonfiction whose focus is disability writing,
a web content writer and former
English teacher/writing instructor
who specializes in education, entertainment,
psychology, and philosophy...in anything
that enhances our intellectual, spiritual,
emotional, and physical well-being.
I tell you this because (besides showing off) I want you to know how
dedicated I am to words, to writing, and, especially, to writers.
I live with creative and intelligent artists and musicians; I grew up with a
mother and a sister who are brilliant artists; and even my Dad is one in his
own right, crafting whole houses from imagination. I honor imagination,
and want you to do the same, especially when it comes to your own or
even when it comes to my helping you find and use your own.
Welcome to a place for your words.
This is why you are here and why I have created this website of words for
you: in a safe, private environment (where no one steals your email
address, no one blasts you with ads, and no one forces anything but fun,
you will imagine, read, respond, be responded to, imagine and write, and
write some more. In this space you can honor yourselves as novice
freelance writers, memoir writers, creative writers...will honor your right to
the most positive of experiences and the most positive of words.
The right words have influenced and impacted positively, changing
childhoods, affecting countries, altering careers. Helpful, healthy words
heaped on us with love and lots of attention have helped us cast off the
deleterious and damaging and despicable. Words are the best thing that
ever happened to us.
I hope this site becomes one of the best things that ever happens to us, as
well.
Respectfully,
Roxanne
Works Cited
(1) Bunting, Chris. “Tongue Twisters.” <www.chrisbunting.net/babel.htm> 14 Dec.
2004.
(2) GlobalPsychics. "Watch Your Language!" <www.globalpsychics.com/lp/
Tips/words_of_power.htm> 03 Dec. 2004.
(3) Smith, Adam. The Powers of Mind. New York: Random House, 1975.
(4) Gordon, Sari. "He Talks to Water...and the Water Talks Back." Sept/Oct 2004.
Utne.
collection, one which I started in the 70's.
The only authorial credit I could find was
that which I use above. If anyone knows
the full source, I would welcome the
correction. Roxanne
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