Thursday, February 9, 2012

I love how when you write, you can put your feelings down on a  page in a few short, simple sentences. If you're an accomplished write, then the more accomplished you are at expressing your feelings in such a  way that the method seems ingenious. When you're and accomplished poet/songwriter/author or whatever else, then you can fit words together all sorts of ways. Patterns,rhymes, prose, blank verse, anything! The combining of words make the finished product bounce off a page; makes the product shine. Everyone has their own style of writing whether other people understand the method or not, but that's not bad. This adds variety to writers' ideas. This is what makes a writer a writer. This is what makes people think, "Hey! He/she's good!" Being yourself as you write is majorly important. You can put your feelings down on paper, all the while expecting the result to be extraordinary. Extraordinary it may be, but not in the way you might have envisioned. To write, what others' opinions are don't matter. To write, you just need to open your mind. To write, you have to learn to accept who you are without any question. If you don't, then you don't know what you are doing much less what you are writing. That is like having an interview with Jay Leno and lying about every single question that he directs at you. If you are not yourself when you write, you are basically cheating yourself out of  a kind of freedom. That's another thing that makes writing so wonderfully invigorating. The process is truly liberating. Have you ever wanted to fly? To fly higher than you ever dared imagine, high up in the clouds? The clouds that blur your vision and muffle all sound so that you are encased in a wall of white? A wall of white that leaves you thinking you are in Paradise? That is the sensation you get while writing. Your mind just automatically shuts down and you're left with a hand, a pen, a sheet of paper, and an insatiable desire to write. Write everything and anything. And once you write that first word...you are gone. 

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