Speakeasy #1
Every now and again, I'll try to take a step back and analyze what I'm writing about because most of the time these stories just come out of no where and I just write down what I see.
Truthfully, I don't have that much of a process. I write based off of emotion, which is the number one reason why I steer away from becoming a professional writer. It is truly an outlet. The last poem I wrote (a short while ago), Hope, came from the frustration and wonder I've received from watching the show Cosmos. I started out wanting to be an astronomer, but throughout the course of time, I always wanted to use science as a means of proving that God exists. Unfortunately, my dreams were ended out of mere lack of faith on my part, but it led me on a different path, one that I don't necessarily regret.
This path opened up another world for me and ultimately shown the dark emotions in which I feel from time to time. Yet I do embrace them. Just merely ignoring them would be disrespectful to my own soul. It is out of this emotion which I draw out the most fascinating stories. Sure, all of my main characters die at the end, but they don't really die in vain. The do teach. At least, that's what it seems like they have been doing lately. My characters teach me some of the errors of my ways and advises me against certain actions by letting me see how things play out.
Gloria, one of my Edgar Allen Poe inspired works, showed me the dangers of temptations and falling into the depths of lust. Didn't end well, but to me, he was telling me much more than his ultimate fate. I witnessed him destroying his world around him, without him really know it, simply to satisfy a craving. I struggle in my own life with temptations and see my world being rocked every time I fall victim to it. There is light in the darkness, so we need to reach out to it as much as we can, until we can pull out of it.
Truthfully, I don't have that much of a process. I write based off of emotion, which is the number one reason why I steer away from becoming a professional writer. It is truly an outlet. The last poem I wrote (a short while ago), Hope, came from the frustration and wonder I've received from watching the show Cosmos. I started out wanting to be an astronomer, but throughout the course of time, I always wanted to use science as a means of proving that God exists. Unfortunately, my dreams were ended out of mere lack of faith on my part, but it led me on a different path, one that I don't necessarily regret.
This path opened up another world for me and ultimately shown the dark emotions in which I feel from time to time. Yet I do embrace them. Just merely ignoring them would be disrespectful to my own soul. It is out of this emotion which I draw out the most fascinating stories. Sure, all of my main characters die at the end, but they don't really die in vain. The do teach. At least, that's what it seems like they have been doing lately. My characters teach me some of the errors of my ways and advises me against certain actions by letting me see how things play out.
Gloria, one of my Edgar Allen Poe inspired works, showed me the dangers of temptations and falling into the depths of lust. Didn't end well, but to me, he was telling me much more than his ultimate fate. I witnessed him destroying his world around him, without him really know it, simply to satisfy a craving. I struggle in my own life with temptations and see my world being rocked every time I fall victim to it. There is light in the darkness, so we need to reach out to it as much as we can, until we can pull out of it.
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