{"id":12501,"date":"2022-08-09T01:59:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T08:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/?page_id=12501"},"modified":"2024-11-20T06:56:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T13:56:23","slug":"peter-word-wrangler","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/windpilot.com\/blog\/en\/biography\/peter-word-wrangler\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter \u2013 word wrangler"},"content":{"rendered":"

WRITING FOR SURVIVAL<\/strong><\/p>\n

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WHAT WHERE HOW<\/strong> \u2028
\nReading, done wisely, \u2028Puts knowledge into place. \u2028Writing, done effectively, \u2028Transcends time and space. \u2028Words entrusted to the world can live on and on, \u2028Conveying knowledge and amusement after their author is gone. \u2028Or, of course, they may just fade away \u2028If the world finds their author had nothing much to say.<\/p>\n

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I ADMIT IT<\/strong>
\n\u2028Writer’s block has never been an issue for me \u2013 and I know exactly whom I have to thank for this gift. The need\/urge\/instinct to write was handed down to me without ceremony or fanfare from my mother and has burned undimmed throughout my life \u2013 a perpetual motion machine fuelled by the experiences of my life and my responses to them. <\/p>\n

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THE BLUE TOUCHPAPER<\/strong> \u2028
\nThe stories lurk out there waiting to be told, like neat-packed fireworks just waiting for the touch of a taper to burst into life and go. Stories have to be lived, experienced, endured, survived, written down and retold. And each one that flies subtly tweaks the bigger story, adding to, adjusting or refining the author’s own autobiographical tale.
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THE CALL OF THE GENES<\/strong> \u2028
\nMy mother created a written record of her entire life, arranging her typed pages neatly in a set of box files. I am on my way to overtaking her at speed because where she had to pound away at her old Continental typewriter, I can just let my fingers glide over the buttery-soft keyboard. Where she had Tipp-Ex, I have AutoCorrect. The latter, I have to say, can create laughs I never intended when it tries to reconcile my more ambitious plays on words with the conventions of formal spelling and grammar, but ultimately the language is ours to use as we wish and it is not for dry academics in ivory towers to set limits on the fun we are allowed to have with it. Not that I could stop myself even if they did…<\/p>\n

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IN MY OWN WORLD\u2028<\/strong>
\nEach to their own.
\nI write my world \u2028the way I like it. \u2028The words, I hope, \u2028Will entertain you and me both. \u2028If it’s not to your taste, \u2028Time’s too precious to waste: \u2028Tarry no longer \u2028But leave me in haste.<\/p>\n

written with fun
\nPeter
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