Published by bntorre14
expanding my audience is crucial for a writer to grow. I started writing poetry and fell in love with the forms, the intensity of description, and the craft. Fiction has allowed me to elaborate on the story, characters, and plot standing and hiding behind the words of a poem. Both have taught me the agony, the blood and sweat, and even aggravation behind each piece of writing.
As Walt Whitman describes it, "A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibilities of their own souls."
I started writing because of life's heartbreaks, beauties, in-be-tweens, and as a way of expressing what isn’t said. A piece of paper never judges an idea or an identity. A reader searches for themselves, because behind the words are experiences, thoughts, emotion, intention. A description can ignite a memory. Writing surpasses all boundaries between age, generation, and human nature.
The more I write the more I begin to notice how impossible it is for life and fiction to be separated, they both influence one another; life and creativity, life and imagination. Life and fiction as ideas are different for each individual. We all live, we all create.
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath.
So, ask yourself, “Life or fiction?”
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." -Albert Einstein
I am passionately curious what you think.
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Life or Fiction? 
This is beautiful. Such a terrible thing.
Thank you! && yes, it’s heartbreaking.
It’s so strange when an actor you grew up watching dies. It feels like you’ve lost someone, even though you never knew them.
Exactly. That’s how I feel and felt when Andy Griffith died too. The actors are so much more than who and what they take on and become. They inspire so many.
Agreed, on both points. I was raised on the Andy Griffith show too.
That’s awesome! It’s cool to know that I’m not the only going person who grew up on Andy Griffith. Majority of my friends don’t know who he is, and they are all my age. It’s the older generation, family, and friends that know who I’m taking about and are so excited to share that connection with me. Lol
Same here. My dad raised me on it because he had loved the show so much.
My grandparents and mom adored the show (: that’s how I fell in love with it too. It’s great when stuff is passed down with the sentiment of family like that.
Yes, it is. I wish there were more shows like that on today. I like things like that better than most of what’s on anymore.
Me too. Majority of the cartoons I see today do not have a meaning behind the plot or a greater lesson trying to be shared. The characters do things to do them and they have no consequences… Lol
I know! It’s really boring.