These past couple of days, I’ve been writing bull crap.
Complete, and utter bull crap. I didn’t understand why, though. I was never
this bad. I mean, it was well written, I’d have all my principles and
techniques in place, but it was just ugly. At first, I thought I was getting worse. I
thought I was growing up, and my love for writing had slowly been fading. Then,
I thought I was just stressed and needed a break. So that’s what I did, I
stopped writing for a while.
And in my writing break, I realized my stupidity. You see,
it’s not all about how good your
vocabulary is, it’s not about how well you apply your writing techniques, it’s
not about your imagery, or how well you know all your principles. It’s only
partly about that. The other bigger and the stronger part is the (Ready yourself.
This is going to be cheesy.) heart, and the soul. I’m not the best, or the
wittiest, but I can definitely say, your writings are absolutely terrible if
you only write with your mind. Trust me, writing is more than accumulating a
bunch of words together, in order to create a paragraph. Writing is picking
certain words, allowing them to collide, and create a masterpiece of itself.
It’s, seeing beauty inside your mind, it’s letting the reader see the fireworks
so deeply applied in each, and every line. It’s your own beauty.
So, what I’m trying to say is, when I write, let I let my heart
speak for itself, let it do most of the work, let my mind do the other half,
and then let my fingers wander around the page. It’s, unlimited freedom on a
piece of paper, pretty much. It’s letting your soul breathe; letting it live.
And, when it comes to story writing, it isn’t exactly about
me either. My stories aren’t exactly… mine. All of it, every single aspect of
it, belongs to whoever’s doing the talking inside my head, if you know what I
mean. When the main character’s an old man. The voice inside my head is an old
man. When it’s a young girl, the voice inside my head is a little girl. I just let the characters live, and hope I
don’t end up with schizophrenia or DID, or something.
You see, when you unleash the crazies you actually come up
with something pretty cool. Trust me.
