WRITE ON, THAT'S WHY
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
I wish I had thought of that, but I must credit Thomas Berger for that thought. Which, of course. is so true.
Whether or not we have a voice, we don't know until we create. Until we put down in writing what we think we are somewhat observant about, somewhat expert in. Whether we write as Maugham, an eight-hour a day exercise with no day of rest, or like Bradbury who devoted hours and hours of writing for a period of 20 years until he wrote something good; something that made him weep uncontrollably.
Or whether we write a blog, almost daily. Or sporadic poems when an idea comes to us. Or try our hand at short stories, plays, dramas for church. Or start a piece and see where it's going; see if if morphs into something or not.
But writers must write to feel. I paused to search for an adjective and decided to stop. Writers must write to feel. That's right. We feel things differently or think we do. We have this notion that we are seeing things that others miss. That we feel things more deeply. That we have a vision of the future or a special remembrance of the past that need not pass away. So we share, we speculate, we see patterns, we voice dangers, we praise the ordinary.
A little Hitchcock or O'Henry in us likes to take a scene and punctuate it resulting in a reversal. The woman in the picture seems to be the aggressor, but in our story maybe it's the bobby at the station who's at the focal point of the story. We question his motivation and proceed from there. For instance, is he really a policeman or did he murder one and stands there planning his escape? What's really under his hat? Those kinds of things.
But hey, as Lennon says, come join us. There's always room for more writers, more stories, more voices writing just because.
1 Comments:
At 8:24 AM, Fort Wayne Tour Guide said…
That was good. Something just simple and direct about it. Also liked your recent one about a kid's laughter -that speaks to us all, I think.
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