David R. Griffiths
Writer
I
may not be the most successful writer, but my words have
reached millions. Through ideas I have changed the world in larger and
smaller ways.
My goal as a writer is "to communicate", to make
bridges between people and knowledge.
How do you write? First conceive the audience ... for more click here for
The goal and technique of writing
My chief area has been human rights. For thirteen years I was a public relations officer and had hundreds of radio tv and print articles in the media.
But writing did not come easy for me, as a student I had the goal to condense ideas and so to many probably didn't communicate at all - might be why I failed final year philosophy... and also that I was opposed to the soulless stimulus response ideas we were supposed to study. (Modern philosophy teaches that you cannot know anything, which has resulted in "market economics". Yet philosophy is knowledge.)
In the course of my work I developed a love of the aesthetic of language. Since then I have also diversified a little in history and popular science, even had a crack at children's fiction.
This website is devoted to the latter category of my work. Some of the articles have been published, some have not. Some are features, but even just letters to the editor or radio news items create a challenge to communicate in 300 words or less and to some degree are art.
Here is a sample of my work.
How do you write? First conceive the audience ... for more click here for
The goal and technique of writing
My chief area has been human rights. For thirteen years I was a public relations officer and had hundreds of radio tv and print articles in the media.
But writing did not come easy for me, as a student I had the goal to condense ideas and so to many probably didn't communicate at all - might be why I failed final year philosophy... and also that I was opposed to the soulless stimulus response ideas we were supposed to study. (Modern philosophy teaches that you cannot know anything, which has resulted in "market economics". Yet philosophy is knowledge.)
In the course of my work I developed a love of the aesthetic of language. Since then I have also diversified a little in history and popular science, even had a crack at children's fiction.
This website is devoted to the latter category of my work. Some of the articles have been published, some have not. Some are features, but even just letters to the editor or radio news items create a challenge to communicate in 300 words or less and to some degree are art.
Here is a sample of my work.
HISTORY
"Most likely the story of convicts being shot while attempting to escape a sinking ship continued to be retold amongst convicts. The gentleman I met said his forefather was one of the last convicts sent to the Colony, and arrived in the 1850's, which is nearly two decades after the wreck."
click here for "Tasmanian Shipwreck Legend"
Letters
The constraints of space mean "letters to the editor" are an art of using the least words to say the most.
click here for "Freedom in Asia" click here for "Islamists"
click here for "Mugabe is the KGB's man"
Popular Science
"A million years ago the area was alive with volcanoes. Smoke would have filled the air from bush-fires started by the molten rock as it poured across the landscape, creating one of the world's biggest lava flows."
click here for "Legacy of a violent past"
"Thus for the Borung people Arcturus signaled the time to eat ant larvae, while for the Greeks it was time to prune vines. Before clocks and calendars the night sky itself marked the passage of seasons and activities in daily living."
click here for "Aboriginal Astronomy Mysteries"
Music
For me writing begins with an insight and the rest more or less flows. Some things I write have an inner integrity.
"Really nice and VERY different kind of review, most refreshing!" Nick Barrett, Pendragon
click here for "Feel good Prog Masterpiece" at Amazon.com (Scroll down for review)
Religion
"I have quite a few thoughts about what passes for religion, I don't seek to stop other religions, I'm not like that please, that's what I am against."
click here for "Principles of a new religion"
click
here for
Australian landscape photos
*Copyright David R. Griffiths (c) 2007 Free for non-commercial use such as school project. If articles are published in hard copy or incorporated in another web page it must be with acknowledgment to source and prior email to me for consent. Commercial projects are not free, but rates are negotiable and fair.