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.
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Everyday Canvas
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
August 26, 2024 at 10:13am August 26, 2024 at 10:13am
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Prompt: Inspiration
Where does your inspiration for writing about real life come from: Your home, family, friends, news media and maybe popular stories and crimes or what?
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Inspiration for writing about real life? Frankly speaking, it may come from just about anywhere for most good writers.
In my case, for this blog, it mainly comes from what a prompt suggests, since recently, I've only been posting online what I write in my blog, which doesn't mean that it is the only thing I write. I have grown more fond of writing in notebooks with a pen, after finding out that scammers go into writers' stuff, especially personal blogs online, to do their illegal things. I'm, therefore, very careful not to give away too much information about myself in my blog.
Coming back to where I get my inspiration, it usually has to do with personal experiences especially unexpected encounters, memory and nostalgia, and a desire to understand a certain point or area, since I add a little bit of research in what I write.
My subjects could be about social and cultural issues, historical and present events and/or literary works, my own observations of how people and other things in life are, and to a degree, some personal experiences. Then, mostly, I have to feel something about the subject. This is because for us human beings, emotions are powerful motivators.
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