I am a writer.
I record human successes, failures, and follies.
I’ve been writing since Mesopotamia was the cradle of civilization in 3100 BC.
My words can be found scribbled in the earliest Egyptian hieroglyphics, and ancient Mesoamerican mounds.
I’ve been called Petrarch, Aristotle and Plato. My words have brought down mighty countries, and inspired people to die for freedom. Ships were sunk and castles stormed to protect my words of wisdom and hope.
Names are meaningless to me. I have to change mine every century.
You can find my deepest thoughts written in the Indus script of the Bronze Age in ancient India.
I’ve written lists on papyrus using the Phoenician alphabet, and carved scripts like the Runes into stone tablets, using their complex Cyrillic alphabet.
My name changes with every culture. Every era. Egyptians once called me Ptahhotep, and the early summerians called me Enheduanna.
I was William Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, Ernest Hemingway, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Steinback, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Words weave picture stories like Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer. Words written by influential visionaries, like George Orwell, warn of future dangers.
My mission is to record it all. To give every culture, and nation, a voice. A history.
Words can be worth their weight in gold. They should not be used as weapons. Instead, words should be used to guide civilizations, and bring order to chaos.
Words separate mankind from all the other life forms on earth.
The ability to read words from our past gives us insight into who we are now. What mistakes our predessors made can be recorded as future warnings.
Likewise, many of the things our ancestors did right, are still right today.
Every civilization has a story to tell, and writers to save it for posterity. Words are building blocks that create firm foundations for all nations. They should be used wisely.
The gods are watching…
As It Stands, writing has always calmed my soul, regardless of the subject.
The Creative Chronicles of Dave Stancliff 