DEAR gods AND goddesses
Dear gods and goddesses,
From my little abode I write to you, for we have a lot to discus. Do
not look Leary for theatricality in this "dramatic" letter and do not
mind its technicalities, not even the grammatical and sentence
structures because you're reading from a humble imperfect excellent god;
perhaps a great god in making. In as much we all know that Mr. and Mrs.
poets has their license to do as they wish with words, we the
storytellers should at least have a pinch of that license also, because
all gods should god. gods should sometime create words that it's
grammatical order and philosophical leaning and encapsulation it
underpin would be nice and his own invention. By this, we agree that
stories matters. You have heard from today's contemporary gods that have
flew their templates into the annex of history that story and the mode
with which it was told matters. "malign. But stories can also be used to
empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people.
But stories can also repair that broken dignity." Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie.
While creating a story, dear god and goddess of word,
create inspiring images. Do not tell a story from a biased mind, stories
should at least climb a level which African greatest god of word, Chinua Achebe called "A balance of story". Your story shouldn't center
on stereotypes alone.
"The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story." C. N. Adichie.
Dear gods and goddesses, pick up your pen and begin to
create images not imitations. Create living lives that can defend their
selves not dumb and dead images.
Create peripherals that can inspire and impact the earthly man.
Dive into the ocean of illusions and magnify illusions.
Place your analytical lens on the platform of justice and equity because gods are not to be partial.
When you want to criticize a creation of a fellow god, observed the
literary etiquette of criticism. And also do same if you must appreciate
it; the duo literary criticism and literary appreciation should walk in
pari pasu.
When you want to create images of afflicted persons, try to be sincere and truthful a bit.
Fiction shouldn't be all fiction; fiction should at least respect some
truths if it is directed to humans, even animals deserves true
representation. You have read the fictitious 'things fall apart", which
became a work that stood out as a source for Igbo lifestyles. If such
stories like that were told to dispossess and malign people, what fate
would Achebe's creation placed the entire Igbo nation on the vast
village of literary world?
gods may not actually be good
historians as claimed by many diplomats, but that however is far from
truth. History can not be told only from hypothesis, graphites and
archeological findings and carbon dating. In as much as history is
peoples past, stories are also history of humans, so there dear
goddesses and gods of word, tell stories to reflect real history of
things.
Do you have new images?
Do you even have a half created humans?
Do you fear if it has been told before?
No story is new.
All stories have been told before.
But unique stories with real images stands out to be new stories that have not been told before.
Pick up your pen and create one, story matters.
You knew we still have many things to talk about, dear gods and goddesses but my pen is becoming a half beast of burden to my script. Go out now and create great humans, great society because you're great gods and goddesses.
Still me Ben, a humble and imperfect excellent god of words urging you to create more.