"All good writing is like swimming underwater and holding your breath." | "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." |
JMW Turner
hat metaphor do you liken your writings too? Writing is an allusion to something else (person, place, thing or idea), those who are caught in the idea that writing is much more than just characters (a, b, c, d, e, f, g and so on) and meaningfully sentences automatically attach that words are for creating, and how we see creating (whether bleeding or swimming) can mean all the difference. (Metaphors are linked to writing—though cliches run rampant like herpes.*)
Here’s a question: What do you consider writing is?
Does it encompass your philosophy? Does it state what you believe? Does it come across and match your style? Does it hold to everything you despise as well about writing? The pros and cons? The romanticism? The realism? The who? What? How? Overthinking is a writer's job—consolidating even more so. What does can you liken it too that encompasses those questions, what is it like?**
I liken writing and all its curses to bleeding watercolors—I even have a clever name for it, Watecolorism (it might catch on if I am older and Wikipedia worthy, its something I named and I came up in Mrs. Gorhams*** class—I’ve adopted it like a stray shitzu). This sums up everything I like about writing, it bleeds, it attaches itself to other nouns. It also sums up how messy it is. Cleaning bloody corpses are harder than writing, occasionally.
Knowing your philosophy and how you relate to your writing will make a difference.
*Hope nothing is insinuated to offend you, one ought to be careful about liken something to something awkward or not absolute.
** Not used to calling her her first name—ya know?
*** At the risk of sounding like a stereotypical valley girl.
Here’s a question: What do you consider writing is?
Does it encompass your philosophy? Does it state what you believe? Does it come across and match your style? Does it hold to everything you despise as well about writing? The pros and cons? The romanticism? The realism? The who? What? How? Overthinking is a writer's job—consolidating even more so. What does can you liken it too that encompasses those questions, what is it like?**
I liken writing and all its curses to bleeding watercolors—I even have a clever name for it, Watecolorism (it might catch on if I am older and Wikipedia worthy, its something I named and I came up in Mrs. Gorhams*** class—I’ve adopted it like a stray shitzu). This sums up everything I like about writing, it bleeds, it attaches itself to other nouns. It also sums up how messy it is. Cleaning bloody corpses are harder than writing, occasionally.
Knowing your philosophy and how you relate to your writing will make a difference.
*Hope nothing is insinuated to offend you, one ought to be careful about liken something to something awkward or not absolute.
** Not used to calling her her first name—ya know?
*** At the risk of sounding like a stereotypical valley girl.
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