WELCOME TO SCRIBBLERS’ NEWS - The magazine post for writers
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YOU KNOW IT’S THE WRITE WAY
OF HOME AND WORLD
The wind howls, skating the top of the moor;
I watch its barren landscape,
from the protection of the green fields of my birth,
of fruitful trees,
of wheat standing tall,
of weatherbeaten ancestors, shaping the land
I played on this land in childhood,
cocooned in my small market town;
in adolescence, I began to get bored, wanting more,
those weather beaten faces like the weather beaten land,
forever unchanging, whilst I wanted change
To the city I went, vibrant and transitory,
and from there I watched so much, experienced so much,
lived!
The land of my birth was but a memory,
sometimes an irritation,
sometimes a brief moment of nostalgia,
but rarely a yearning, to relive,
but …
Experience and change become repetitive in the end,
when you’ve lived it all,
had the fun,
paid the price,
sometimes good,
often bad,
and the land of my birth became a yearning,
as the changes of age began to take me over
I’m back in the land of my birth, so many decades having past,
and it WAS changing, but slowly;
slow enough to be different, but retain that which I neglected,
thought I didn’t want,
thought I could do without,
thought I was different from
I’m back in the land of my birth, and feel whole,
having lived in different places,
having experienced different things,
having understood so much,
and together the land of my birth, and the life I have lived
combine
to make me of the land of my birth,
and the world
(c) Anthony North, April 2008
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SCRIBBLERS’ NEWS
INTRODUCTION
This is an occasional magazine post especially for writers. It features links to some of the writers’ tips posts in my archives, and just for a bit of entertainment, a short short story I’ve written in the past.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Tech v Literature - Has technology changed the way we write?
How To Do Proper Research - Here’s a few tips on researching things.
Whatsisname - A short story about irrelevance.
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
WRITERS’ ISLAND
MORE RAMBLINGS FROM MY ARCHIVES
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YOU KNOW IT’S THE WRITE WAY