Thursday, August 7, 2014

I Want to Be Selfish


How your average Joe sees writing:

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How I see writing:

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A picture's worth a thousand words, and yet a thousand words couldn't capture my art form better than this picture.  There are limits to what even words can do, but in a way that's what I admire most about them: their flexibility.  Words are only so descriptive, leaving a paper-thin sketch to be realized by the reader's imagination, in effect making the reader the second creator of the writer's--my--world.  The same writing can become different places to different people, individualizing and personalizing it.  But sometimes, when my own vision is realized by another in a tangible form, I want to share that concrete thought in its mature form.  Sometimes, I want to be the sole creator; to be selfish.

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