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Creative WritingWhy Do I Write – A Masochists Dream
by:
Marie Pacha
My website administrator has given me an assignment. I am to write an article and explain why it is that I write. That plumbed so simple until I sat staring at this blank expanse of white.
Do you want the dramatic version, or the logical one that about does sense; well at least if you cognize me? Oh heck, I'm simply going to start writing and see what comes out.
Let me tell you what I believe simply about words to begin with, and because I believe several of my most profound statements move out in rhyme that's how you are going to get them.
What is this place? Why it is SO unique!!
Look, I have eyes, and a face, are those FEET?
There's a blob on my face. I shall call it a nose.
And those wiggly things on my feet, shall be toes.
There on the keyboard, those must be hands,
connected to the rest, by long pliable bands.
At the end of my hands, are those fingers or toes?
I guess it's my choice, cause who actually knows.
Words were created so folk could share,
all the things that they lived with, with others who cared.
If I called that flower, and you called it star,
our conversations wouldn't go really far.
But until person aforesaid so, who actually knew,
if I wore on my foot, an umbrella or shoe?
I hope you get the drift of that poem. I was in a silly mood once
I wrote it, and yet it says exactly what I meant it to...that words are the basis of communication, and the commonality of our language allows us to share ideas and discover from one another. And what I do with my writing is take those words and weave them into a verse form or a story to communicate to you, or to anyone else interested in reading what passed through my mind.
I write because sometimes I need to release ideas that have formed. Seeing the clarity or confusion of my thoughts on paper helps me to sort them out and numbers out exactly how I feel simply about things. I express my deepest feelings in my poems, and if any of them do you cry you should cognize that my face was probably wet as well. My beloved friends tell me to write once
they cognize I am in a mood simply about something, because they cognize that writing heals me. I can't tell you why it works that way although I cognize it does; possibly it's simply a release.
That was the dramatic version. The logical one is that I am better at expressing myself in writing. Not so really long ago I went back to college to attain several academic credentials and besides to take any and all classes that would-be help me become a better writer. To receive a degree I had to take a speech class. You'd think I would-be be pretty nice with words. I have had poetry readings and I've been talking my head off at my kids for 33 years, but put in front of an audience (no matter how small) and all those words I so cautiously composed go straight out of my head to God knows where. Nope, I'm not a public speaker. I did discover piece taking that class that there are parts of our brains that govern our abilities to use words. In my particular case the area for the spoken word is underdeveloped.
But that's okay. You put me in front of a keyboard and my fingers take wing, only having trouble keeping up with my brain as I compose.
There's one another reason I write. As I have gotten simply a bit older I've accomplished that it's all too easy to sit back and support quiet simply about thing
I don't like as opposed to speaking my mind and kicking up a fuss. But if I don't speak my mind how is anyone going to cognize that I don't like something? And maybe, simply maybe, person else out there agrees with me and is simply sitting back and keeping quiet too. Possibly several things do need to be changed, and possibly my words wish instigate that change. I'm not disquieted simply about being politically correct anymore, and if person criticizes me for being irrational I simply write it off to menopause. (I've found that to be a wondrous effective excuse!)
I write because there are things I want to say. I hope you find them absorbing as you see them!
Marie Pasha “exploded onto the writing scene” in 2001. Her 1st two ebooks are shortly to be re-released in hard copy and her latest two are in bookstores now.
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