Comments on: Words: What Are They Good For

By: 12 Words Every Writer Should Know and Use

12 Words Every Writer Should Know and Use — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:08:35 +0000

[...] a previous post, I talked about words and how powerful of an art form they can [...]

By: tressa

tressa — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:35:08 +0000

I’m speechless…(oops does that mean I’m wordless) LOL I love the way you arrange your words,giving them so much power, drawing me in, to read every one of them!!

By: Dan Marvin

Dan Marvin — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:26:37 +0000

Every Easter, the Marvin clan would gather around the table and color eggs. While some families make pretty little pastel things with chicks and bunnies on them, we would go to work with crayons and craft such nuggets as:

If wishes were fishes we’d have a mess fried, if horse turds were biscuits we’d eat ’til we died (just try fitting THAT on an egg, I dare you)

and

Ardith and Ophelia fart a lot in church to get their own pew (friends of the family… sorry if they were relatives of yours, we didn’t actually think they farted a lot in church)

and

Spring has sprung, look what the dog done (that one was inevitably dunked in every color so it would come out brown)

Granted, these expressions are a big crass in retrospect, but at the time they were the pinnacle of Marvin humor and we would sit around the table trying to top one another for the king of the egg decorators crown. The true joy would be when family would gather for a lovely Easter feast and relatives would reach for their hard boiled eggs from the basket. The looks on their faces as they read the saying there were priceless. Yes, they were just words but even then we knew that words had power.

Dan

By: Lori

Lori — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 01:27:15 +0000

This is one of my favorite quotes from a Successories poster titled Essence of Destiny:

“Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.”