HIDDEN WRITING HYPE FROM THE FIELD

 

The hidden writing on boomerpdx is in plain sight.

But ‘plain sight’ isn’t what it used to be.

It’s not that I use livestock viewing code:

“M r pigs, I c m.”

Instead, I’m a writing hype-man.

You should write, and you, and you, and you. You’d all be happier if you were a writer.

For proof for my ‘you should write’ rule I scoured the internet and found this writer saying it:

 

“It was really a lifeline for me — just the things that I was going through, the things that I was writing about, it kind of reminded me why songwriting actually gets me through my life. I’ve never had an album that I needed songwriting more.

 

That’s our girl Taylor Swift. She gets it.

Is she telling you what to do? Giving guidance through difficult times?

Her hidden writing is in plain sight.

Writing helps what ails you, makes you focus, and gives you a breather when it feels like the rest of the world is on your neck.

Be writing.

 

Plain Sight For BoomerPdx

Can anyone else find something else to see in plain sight?

“He carried his gun in plain sight.”

How about, “The pie was in plain sight.”

Or, “The sign was in plain sight.”

The last thing I want to easily see is a gun, especially if it’s strapped to Jimmy Joe while he sidles up to order inside a Jack In The Box.

There’s some hidden writing inside that image.

 

If you’ve seen documentaries about cave paintings and inscriptions on Egyptian tombs then you’ve seen hidden writing.

Animal drawings in French caves show the hunt and the hunt was très bien.

The hidden writing in Egyptian tombs I don’t know.

I’m stumped thinking of those writers chiseling into stone and I’m here on a keyboard.

Same thing?

From Egypt: “death will slay with his wings whoever disturbs the peace of the pharaoh.”

Nothing there about a gun in plain sight.

Add ‘writer’ instead of ‘pharaoh’ and you might have a peaceful time writing.

 

A Writer’s Story?

 

 

I used to read author biographies to get in the writing mood.

Then I’d read their work.

Most of the time I liked their bios better.

Stephen Crane overboard?

 

The 25-year-old writer had gained international fame with the publication of his novel The Red Badge of Courage in 1896. A Civil War story told from the soldier’s point of view, the novel originally appeared as a syndicated newspaper series.

 

This is what I’m talking about with hidden writing.

If Crane writes a newspaper series that becomes a famous book, then there’s hope for a blogger?

His work would have been tossed with the paper, but something happened.

 

Crane stated, “I wonder that some of those fellows don’t tell how they felt in those scraps. They spout enough of what they did, but they’re as emotionless as rocks.”

He began writing what would become The Red Badge of Courage in June 1893, while living with his older brother Edmund in Lake View, New Jersey.

Crane conceived the story from the point of view of a young private who is at first filled with boyish dreams of the glory of war, only to become disillusioned by war’s reality.

 

Sound familiar?