My Own Top Ten Writers For December
These guys have got the writers beans
The writers I have selected here have arrived in my reading and thinking both by random and by choice. Let me explain. I came across them by chance as an editor. From there they kind of stuck in my mind by virtue of their talents as writers. For this reason I consciously chose them for this piece.
Rich Sobel is an excellent writer on biology matters. What attracted me to Rich is that he writes so eloquently about matters I would normally struggle with. I have to be honest, my biology classes at school, dissecting frogs, put me off the subject for life. Rich has succeeded in turning me back on to the subject. He makes the unfathomable totally understandable and highly readable. Top man.
Mack is a writer I came across whilst editing an excellent piece about her obituary. Her writing is so good I wish I had written the piece myself. I can pay no higher compliment. Her style is just so engaging you have to read every last word. Below is an amazing piece about the loss of her mother. Have the tissues ready, this will touch you deeply like nothing ever has before.
Nadya caught my attention because she has made an excellent job of writing in a second language. Many try, but I have seldom come across somebody who does it as well as Nadya.
Annelise is a great story teller, totally engaging with a very important takeaway at the end. In this story she explores the importance of kindness. It is a piece that will set you thinking and maybe even make you change your ways.
Natalie is another excellent writer who has a lot worthwhile to say. In this piece she writes of a subject very much in the news at the moment, so much so it has become a defining view of 2020 for all the wrong reasons. Here at least Natalie cuts through all the fake news and deals with the subject in a highly informative manner. And to cap it all, I have learned that I am what is apparently called a 'Long Hauler.'
At times like these, times when lots of us are in despair, Breanna brings us a very important message, a message of hope. All too easily we tend to forget that every downside also has an upside. I for one am very much for seeing that silver lining to every cloud, just like Breanna.
Jennifer also gives us a message of positivity and hope for better times. Here she reminds us of the importance of remembering that although we have lost physical contact with our loved ones, they are still there for us.
Audrey is a new writer I have recently come across and highlights just how weird life can be at times. Who would have thought that a fast food joint would use AI to make the world a better place for all of us. It is a subject well worth our attention and Audrey writes about it ever so well.
Emily is another new writer to me and writes exceptionally well about the importance of conversations, how they help to formulate ideas, maybe even indirectly, to define future events. It's all down to osmosis, and if you want to know what that is you had better read Emily's piece.
I could read all sorts of meanings into this poem, and that is the beauty of it. For me, it pretty much sums up how I have felt many times this awful year. But now I feel we can look forward to sailing away from it. Still it doesn't hurt to look back to where we have been. It is a time to give a thought to how the year has been for some of us and perhaps learn a little empathy as we move forward out of our slumber paralysis to a more optimistic future.
To end this piece on a very positive note I have included a short piece of my own and hope that you all have a very happy Christmas and a superb new year.
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