Where Are the Writers?

The stories come and go like waves—each one breaking softly against the shores of our attention. A child gives his birthday money to a homeless woman. A stranger returns a wallet stuffed with cash. A passerby gathers donations for a veteran until a simple act of generosity swells into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

They make us smile, maybe even tear up. Then we scroll on. The tide goes out, and the stories slip away.

But what if one of these moments didn’t?

What if a writer—a real writer, the kind who feels before thinking—sat down and said, This isn’t just news. This is a beginning.

Eight-year-old Mateo in Chicago gave his birthday money—twenty-three dollars—to a homeless woman selling candy. He didn’t do it for a camera. He did it because he saw need and recognized it. Twenty-three dollars: not enough to change her life, but maybe enough to remind her she still mattered.

 

Now imagine a writer picking up that thread. Not to report it, but to live inside it. To follow the woman after that day, to find out what twenty-three dollars meant to her. To see whether she bought milk, or shelter, or a moment’s dignity. To trace how one act of innocence revealed what we adults have forgotten: that compassion is never wasted.

In the hands of a storyteller, Mateo’s moment could grow into a novel of quiet heroism, a reminder that goodness isn’t gone—it’s simply waiting for witnesses with pens.

Then there’s the man in Michigan who found a wallet filled with cash on St. Patrick’s Day and returned it without hesitation. “Kindness goes a long way,” the mother said through tears when she realized her son’s money was safe.

A headline and a paragraph. That’s all the world got.

But what if an author saw the invisible story—the way honesty shapes character when no one is watching? What if the writer followed that thread into a meditation on integrity in an age of convenience? We live in a world that rewards exposure, not example. A story like that could remind readers that virtue still exists, not as a slogan but as a reflex of the soul.

Harper Lee once did this. She looked at her world, bruised and uneven, and she listened. She didn’t invent Atticus Finch; she recognized him in the ordinary men who still tried to do right when right cost something.

And then there’s the woman who handed $1,300 to a struggling veteran. Her act caught fire online, swelling into nearly half a million dollars in donations. It’s a beautiful ending—but also a beginning left unexplored.

Who was the veteran before the video? What dreams had he buried under shame and struggle? What happens when generosity thrusts a private life into public light? These are the questions only a storyteller can ask—questions that transform kindness into conscience.

This is where The Power of Authors comes alive.

Writers have always been keepers of the moral pulse. They see meaning in the mundane, poetry in the passing moment. But lately, too many stories end before they begin. We record what happened, not what it meant. We react instead of reflect.

Yet somewhere out there, an author sits before a blank page, feeling the same uncertainty Harper Lee must have felt when she began To Kill a Mockingbird. The temptation to stay safe is real. But the world doesn’t need more safe stories. It needs brave ones—ones that ask what compassion demands, what truth requires, what hope still costs.

Because when a writer listens deeply and writes fearlessly, kindness becomes movement, empathy becomes memory, and stories stop washing away.

So, where are the writers?

The next Harper Lee could be watching the same viral clip the rest of us scrolled past—only they won’t move on. They’ll pick up their pen, follow the echo, and remind the world that goodness deserves more than a headline.

This is their moment. This is ours.

Stories like these remind us why The Power of Authors exists.

Because the world doesn’t change when kindness goes viral—it changes when someone gives that moment a heartbeat that lasts beyond the scroll. When a writer decides to follow compassion to its root and truth to its consequence. When words no longer fill pages but fill the spaces between people.

That’s what The Power of Authors is about: ordinary men and women who pick up a pen and dare to shape the moral weather of their time. It’s a book about courage disguised as storytelling, about the unseen hands behind every shift toward empathy.

Every generation has its Harper Lee. Every era waits for a voice that reminds us we still belong to each other. Maybe that voice is already writing in the quiet of their living room tonight. Maybe it’s yours.

The Power of Authors, by Evan and Lois Swensen, carries this conviction to its core. More than a manual on writing, it is a meditation on purpose, showing how every word—whether in a novel, a thank-you note, or a simple message—can echo far beyond its moment. Copies are available through Amazon (link), Barnes & Noble, and everywhere good books are sold. For an autographed copy, visit this link.

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