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- Wallace Stevens
Just think of it! We can write anything we want!!
We can create our own Han Solo, our own universe, our own odds.
STORY
Elu, my Apache Gandalf, says there are no truths, only stories.
Each of us is a myth in our own heads.
We make it up.
It is the story of ourselves we steer our actions by.
It is not the truth of our life. We could not bear to look at that.
It is the illusion which helps us keep going on in life.
Myths
Man alone tells stories to understand his world.
I have always believed that, no matter what Elu said, there was only one story in all the world.
Men are caught, in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions,
in their greed and cruelty, and in their kindness and compassion, too, in a net of good and evil.
There is no other story.
will have left only two hard questions:
Was my life good or was it evil?
We fall from womb to tomb,
from one blackness and toward another,
remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.
You see, the apparently happy moments are the ones that deceive us.
Though our senses or our wits may not be able to see the tides
that are leading toward those clusters of events called crossroads, they’re happening all the same …
and more tragically for our being blind to them.
The star, the wheel, the butterfly—
waiting for the moment when some invisible process signals that the time has come.
Then the star explodes.
The wheel of Fate makes poor men rich.
STORY can say all that is unsayable in the world.
How can we resist the lure of attempting that?
The best STORY is the one where the reader sees her or himself in it and mutters,
"Yeah, that's the way it is, isn't it?"
Events have a way of bruising us soul-deep until we long for a carpet ride out of our lives.
That's what STORY does for us ...
WHAT IS THE PARTICULAR MAGIC OF WRITING
THAT KEEPS YOU DOING IT?
Writing is a way of reaching outside ourselves, communicating our hopes, our fears, our dreams and our mental ramblings. Sometimes the writing affects others, and other times, it floats into oblivion. I keep writing because it makes me smile and I get to visit a dream world in my mind. That dream/fantasy world becomes a story.
ReplyDeleteHi Roland .. I hope you're healing ... and you can get your car fixed before the real heat comes around. Story is a story and often it's what we imagine as we read (as readers) .. be it a long story, or a short story ... and as a writer enjoy the process ...
ReplyDeleteCheers Hilary
What an uplifting and inspiring post. Yes, "it gives us a magic carpet ride out of ourselves for a few short precious moments." We create whatever story we choose, because we can.
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ReplyDeleteYes, inside our imaginations we can craft a world that inspires us and lets us fly free. :-)
Hilary:
From Homer to Homer Simpson, we love our stories, don't we?
Teresa:
Thanks for such a nice compliment. The Father created us, and in us perhaps is that echo of creativity we express in story. :-)
My writing helps to take me out of this world and into another one. I want to keep writing to find out what happens, to perfect my story in this imperfect world.
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