The Keyboard Awaits August 15, 2014
Posted by nrhatch in Happiness, Humor, Word Play, Writing & Writers.comments closed
What will it be today?
Fiction, Non-Fiction, Novel, Short Story, Essay, Poetry, Humorous Anecdote, Serious Reflection.
The vehicles available to transport our words to the world are as varied as the topics addressed in our musings.
Like a single strand of DNA, reordering the 26 letters at our disposal expands our universe from finite to infinite.
Writing allows us to play with permutations, switch perspectives, and view life through different vantage points and keyholes.
The freedom of orchestrating our thoughts liberates us from the constraining influence of public opinion and even from our own limiting beliefs.
Alone with our thoughts, we step into solitude to carve order out of chaos. As we edit, we add, delete, expand, contract, and reorder our thoughts until we are satisfied that we said what we meant, and we meant what we said.
If we feel inhibited about sharing our unfiltered thoughts with an audience, we can create a fictional character to act as proxy or puppet.
And we hold the strings.
Everything we taste in life adds to our arsenal, our tool bag of tricks.
The world expands and we expand with it, noticing nuances and using experiences to entertain, persuade, educate, amuse, and spur others to action.
When we share our adventures, readers are inspired to expand their horizons.
The downside to this pleasant pastime of playing with words is that writing is a rabbit-hole. An endless warren of thought threads distracts me from tackling more mundane tasks.
Even those essential to survival like eating. And sleeping.
In the Write Zone, the world is put on hold ~ I’ll get to IT (whatever IT is) later. Or Tomorrow.
Next Tuesday at the latest.
I wonder if I lose track of time because I’m just writing for the fun of it?
At present, I’m not driven by thoughts of fame, fortune, or eventual publication. I don’t care about “having written” or “making a name for myself” or any other external indicator of success.
For me, it’s the journey of writing that holds appeal. I just want to be happy as the path unfolds before me. And writing is the best means I’ve found to that end.
Other than chocolate, of course.
Aah . . . that’s better!
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