Words Written Down: A journey with a boy and his blog

Words Written Down is a compilation book project that came out of the blog www.wordswrittendown.com and an appreciation for the idea of words put down on a page in a meaningful order. The blog itself was begun some 3 ½ years ago and contains the following top of page description: Blog is all about words because... they matter, they influence, they entertain and when you take 'em and put them down on a page in a meaningful order, they acquire permanence. Contained here are a bunch of written words in the form of book reviews, magazine and web article links & summaries and other stuff I like to write about. Links noted throughout the book can be found at the referenced blog post and criterion for inclusion of each revolves around the concept of Interesting. If writing was deemed interesting, it’s noted along with my ruminations on the topic and view of what makes that particular set of words grouped together into a book or story be so good that they acquire permanence. The goal of Words Written Down is to highlight and pay homage to this permanence of words. Why? Cause I like words.