Ink and Intention: A Writer's Code

With ink of intention, seek meaning.
Pen on parchment, let it fly.
Believe and wander—

then believe again.

Let purpose be your compass.
Let insight be your goal.
Being felt is a glorious epilogue.

Let wonder feed your hunger.
Let curiosity tangle with chaos.

Resist the lure of easy answers.
Let mystery lead.
The unknown is not your obstacle—
it is the story to be told.

Honesty in emotion first.
Let authenticity be your truth—
not facts.

With calm quill, draw on compassion.
Every soul deserves your empathy—
every soul real, and every soul imagined.
Every soul deserves reflection.
Resist cruel or clever direction.
Behold the abyss—do not flinch, do not judge.

Rely not on perfection.
Drafts are open doors.
Keep them wide and waiting.
Do not pronounce sentence—
walk through.
Revision is Revelation.

Do not mistake word count for heartbeats—
or productivity for purpose.

Honor your rituals,
not those others may impose.
True-to-you is the well from which you write.
Honor your you.

Do not wait for your muse—write.
She exists, seen or unseen.
Respect her presence. Write.

And breathe.
Rituals. Rhythms. Rest.
Leave space.
Allow the echo.
Let your reader feel.

Then write.

Write to be heard,
to be felt.

Write so your words form a future—
heard by one,
or heard by thousands—
heard.
Felt.

Write for someone.
Write for you.
Whether galaxies away
or reflecting back at you.

Write to be eternal.

Do not despair writer’s solitaire.
Alone in the craft is illusion.
Words defy gravity
and pull others into orbit.

You are never alone
when you write.

Write to harvest change—
in you,
your words,
the world.

Embrace the bounty.
And write.
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Write not to escape the world,
but to shape it—
one word,
one wonder,
one truth at a time.

Write.

In ink, I become.
In story, I remember.
In voice, I rise.

~ jlynn

Author’s Note:

In humble appreciation and inspired by the Northmen Code