Kindergartner’s do it, and high school students do it. When they do, there’s talking, laughter, and critique about technique, method, and style. At times, everyone does it with quiet concentration.

Creation is the epoch moment when nothing becomes something.

Creating something from nothing affirms personality, the artifacts of our tribe, and the design of culture. We live to create, to change, to motivate, to affect.

Creative moments lighten our darkness while absolving our anonymity.

Creation and passion infuse a couples love and affectionate embrace. Silly, passionate, and profound stories could be told by couples who understand creative expression as they celebrate one of life’s “pop factors”.

Wrestlers pretend animosity as their opponent gets slammed to the mat. Wrestlers call these moments the “sound and force” of “pop factors”. Passionate couples empathize.

Artists articulate empathy with aesthetic “pop factors”; an artist wows audiences with slams on the visual landscape.

Two articles, “Working with Monumental Sculpture” and “Claes Oldenburg: Objects into Art” published by Scholastic Art, March 2002 confirm these observations.

Oldenburg creates large scale visual shapes for park and city landscapes. Oldenburg astounds. He says, “I like to take an object and completely deprive it of its function, so as to use it only as a motive for creating art…My aim is to give existence to fantasy.”

Writers “do it” too. Gabriel García Márquez seeks “the magic in commonplace events,” the moments with “sound and force” and living “pop factors”.

Internet words and language pop-up on monitors without “sound and force.” Not because of technique. Not because those of us mangling words and blaring messages do not care. We care, but the work, the joy, the impact, the compulsion to deliver creative thought takes work.

“Doing it” is not a “wam, bam,thank you mam” moment. “Doing it” compels the creative moment, when nothing becomes something.

Not posting since August seems absurd, and anyone avoiding, not paying attention, or ignoring these posts agrees. I’ve learned a lesson: write what matters to me. That seems risky at times because I wonder if what matters to me matters to my readers.

So, here’s what I’m going to do. This blog format will change within the next few weeks. The focus of entries changes with the upgrade.

Echievements.com is an article directory. Authors submit articles to demonstrate expertise and to advertise their service or product. Echievements offers authors and webmasters one place, among many, to spread information and to get links back to their sites. 

Some articles are well-written; some are distracting. Echievements will provide writing-tools for authors. We can all learn to write better. As my undergraduate Greek professor said, “Results increase as efforts decrease over extended rehearsals.” The Greeks had a saying “practice is everything”.  

Sometimes I wonder what I’m practicing, and what the Echievements authors intend. There’s a lot of grasping on the Internet. Grasping for ideas, a quick buck, and internet marketing secrets. Few of us have an inner understanding of what makes us tick. The folks who do succeed (both online and offline). 

Emerson said, “Masses of men (people: men & women) live quiet lives of desperation.” For what reasons? Many people waste hours in traffic jams; only their bumper sticker reveals a common motivation. “I owe, I owe; off to work I go.”

Not many get excited about their daily commute. Their single solace is knowing each day brings them closer to retirement. How come most of us don’t get too excited about our work (the one place we spend most of our life)? 

I think most of us don’t know what makes us tick.  The Echievements Writer’s Bin/Blog will now focus on how to write clearly. Every tool provided will give you writing resources. Writing is work and work can become joyful rather than drudgery. 

If words, content, article writing, white papers, blogs, and copywriting mean something, then check here often. I am commited to improving my writing, and you might benefit from some of what you find at the Echievements Writer’s Bin.