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My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #716170 added January 22, 2011 at 7:08pm Restrictions: None
Ghosts Haunting Characters
Today, after reading from a book in the library about story foundations, I made a list. I can’t stress enough the value of making lists, at least for me: not to forget things sometimes, but mostly to realize what’s important.
In this case, however, the list was for ghosts, not the eek, floating-in-white-sheets type of ghosts, but the ghosts of the past that haunt a person. The book describes this kind of a ghost as:
An event from the past that haunts the hero, which may be an open wound that is the source of hero’s psychological and moral weakness.
In other words, ghost in this case should equal the power of the past.
I used to think I can get over anything as I forgive most anything. I am not sure of that thought anymore, since my list ended up being far too long. True, I thought deep and exaggerated the events, but still the things I could remember as possible ghosts shocked me.
It may be a good idea to make lists of such ghosts. Our protagonists, antagonists, and secondary characters can use them.
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