Three wishes of a Writer

My Three Wishes:
by jenny wren

doesn't this sound like a good idea, three wishes , what would I wish for:?
for what I have understood of it, but are the poems and the stories to have the three wishes inside them or included along with your entries ?
I would wish, that: when contests are offered to the writers of this site, that they would be written so that even a stupid jerk like me could understand, I would wave my magic wand and I would be able to read minds, about how things should be done, then maybe I could understand how this blasted system works now.... Genie that was just my number one wish)

now for number two
I would wish to actually take pen in hand and write
just 'one' poem that, each and every reviewer, would find satisfactory to their own personal taste, (I do believe that some reviewers would find faults and even suggest changes for the many words and meanings in websters dictionary, also, the the King James version of the Bible.) would it not be nice to have a real 'five,' (that is not put there by a friend), that an artist actually would have found that work of mine to be perfect, I mean an honest ' big five'.

I have worked on 'Mellisa's Sounds' since 1976 on mine and it is still, found with 'many fault', by some, making me misjudge myself, as a writer, (and I have written for 60 years and my readers in the newspapers are satisfied or they have kept up the biggest farce in all history, because I hear from people with tears in their voices and in their eyes, " that they read that poem and then even cut it out of the paper and saved it to read and share with loved ones later.", they have collected scrap books of them , yes, just plain common people, I guess are too easily satisfied, maybe because they are just regular people, and not so prone to check for mistakes, they seem to just take my poetry, as I gave it,simply at face value, just as the poems were written. after all, they are free. i have never in my life charges a thing for any of my poetry....
one can hardly find anything worthy of anything for free anymore. that is a desire and a wish....
that was number two.

Now for three
I would like to find a site, that is not after you at each and every turn, for upgrades, taking money for this or that, the starving artists, do not have, to fritter away., A site that is just pleased to find artists, that are willing to share with them, their labors of love, for free....
why do things have to always 'cost', to be thought worthy of anything?

There are some really good 'newbie writers' on here, at this time on Writing.com that I have read and really tried to assist with this point system, I told the heavenly Father God, "if You help me ot get the points, I will try to encourage your young writers and encourage them to write something worthy of reading." it is a slow process, trying to give them encouragement to keep on writing, when so many are finding fault. It is found in each writing in some of the reviews.. that hurt them so badly, that they hide their treasure away from prying evil hurtful words. or they simply give up, on the whole mess. it is a very thankless job that God gives to each of us, to do., the young and the old, in writing....

Then to get it published is another thing in itself., there is always the 'preying mantis type publisher,' who will stomp your toe, sure as your foot gets in the door of pulbishing. there are enough thiefs that they will keep your manuscripts and hang you, in suspension , until you are ready to choke them... The rejection slips pile up and only the wealthy or well known, or murderers. or rapist,. can get into print, but there is so much vanity in some of the writers. sometimes,it is even found in good works, that they fall for the bilge of having something published. no matter the cost, in my Long life, I have found that: if you have enough money, you could get a" hog-caller's manuel published" and make your pride overflow, like the slop bucket, that feeds the pigs....

The heart of a real writer that wants so to be read and understood.,,is just that , to have their work read and be understood by the reader.. the writer is easily hurt. ( and I am afraid I do not handle it very well, not being appreciated.) when I have laid my Soul, bare, for the whole world to see here, on this site., I guess my third wish would be: : for all people in the world totry to treat other people, like they, themselves would want others to treat them.. in the same boat, ..I thought this was a place of good will and that it was surely what I had searched for, for so very long, I was wrong. .....again./.there are cliques, I guess in all business and matters, it seems.there is no getting around it that would be my third wish. you see I have already had two books published and helped to build a fellowship hall for our church with the proceeds, God's poems for God's work. I was real pleased to discover that the pay did not come from there , it came from being accepted... and for being permitted to use the God given gift to work for Him to be a channel for His work to flow through... I can no more take any credit for any poem I write , or even this truth I have just written here, than an apple tree limb can take the credit for the apple that is pushed forth from it's source , to be enjoyed by another........
(here is an idea.,for someone,preferably you)
Why not try to make a contest, following simple guidelines that I have talked about above.
A contest that will be 'happy and will accept newbies, even if they screw up, in getting their [item:####} right or wrong, just encourage them, use the thing anyhow, how about joining me, in trying to help, instead of harming God's little ones. I wonder how many old writers have hidden away another "Gone with the wind.", that will no doubt, be thrown out witht he rest of the garbage, when He or She dies ?, to never know the light of day, because of reviewers, who tried to see ,who could write the most microscopic review., instead try reading, just what it is , the writer was tying to say,. then encourage instead of harming them..
"do unto others as you would have them do unto you.......... "
. jenny wren

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