Blog Calendar
    October     ►
SMTWTFS
  
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
Archive RSS
About This Author
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. Kiya's gift. I love it!
Everyday Canvas
#942517 added October 2, 2018 at 10:51pm
Restrictions: None
A Writer's Sight or Insight
Prompt: "The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world." Andre Malraux Do you think this applies to writers and words as well as painters? Write anything you want about this.

-------

That is true. The quote does apply, but it also applies to our imagination’s sight and insight.

If I am writing something fictional, I can only write what I can see, feel, and imagine. I think that is why most of us writers have as their main character in a story, a writer or someone who is working in a vocation similar to the day-job they have. Or else an enormous amount of extensive research is waiting for them with dubious results.

If I am a writer of realistic fiction, don’t ask me to write about a brain surgeon, and astronomer, or a computer geek. I can still write stories about those people, but I’ll either need help from people in those jobs or I’ll imagine their life and omit a lot of important facts.

I can also see in my imagination’s sight other realms, universes, or fantastic beings, but still, into them, I’ll reflect my ideas, feelings, and experiences.

© Copyright 2018 Joy-the Harpy Witch (UN: joycag at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Joy-the Harpy Witch has granted InkSpot.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
... powered by: Writing.Com
Online Writing Portfolio * Creative Writing Online