Words farmers

the art of writing, the work of the writer, the meal of the reader

Words farmers[1]

 

Writers are pioneers in front of a piece of untamed wild fertile land

Blank pages need work and sweat, need to be cultivated for crop too

Farmers work hard at cultivating their fields to feed the belly of the population

Writers work hard at cultivating their pages to feed the mind of the population

Raw ideas are like wood to be cleared trees to cut, bushes to be torn out,

Like a plow a pen carve a page with lines of sown ideas of future crop to be

A written page takes time to mature to be fertilized and weeded out

Proofing a page is like, a crop reaped in the fall by the laboring writer

Editing is like processing the raw components into edible food

A published book, in a library window, like a plate displayed on a dining table

Readers got same pleasures reading good literature as savoring fancy dishes

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[1] 2015-03-30