Paper Lantern

Entanglement

BC ~ I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions,” says James Michener.

What is it that excites you and/or fulfills you about writing?

Writing is a means of expression that can be controlled. Unlike human emotions, which, in the spur of the moment, often lose control, writing allows for thought processes to develop, evolve, and ultimately rearrange themselves before my eyes. Through writing, I am able to express myself, devoid of the constraints through speech alone, such as time, decorum given to specific time/place/peoples, and other such hindrances to true and uncompromised expression.
I Love...Adore the way that words are allowed...encouraged to flow together to create the perfect medium desired for any type of writing; be it professional, personal, or the fantastical. Much of what one writes is subjective, and can be interpreted in different ways, by different people, through varied circumstances. Take poetry, for instance. No two people, I gather, would read the same poem (being told Nothing of what it truly pertained to), and walk away with the same emtional pullings, if they were even inclined to at all. I have had others read my poetry, walking away with something that I never would have imagined, for that was not my emotional standpoint when creating the scene. This is how the entanglement of words becomes something Beautiful... tragic...awe-inspiring...comical.
When writing fantasy, I tend to let my characters move and take over. I follow their pursuits of success, failure, love, madness, what have you. This in no means implies that I have lost control, which would seem to completely contradict my earlier statement that control is found in one's writing. However; this is more of a freeing, that I speak of...a letting go so that my characters more easily achieve (without my own constant interferance...my limited perspective), what Could be, were there little to no contraints upon reality. Had I not Created my characters, imbued them with certain emotional/physical/psychological capabilities, or lack therof, they would find themselves (as the readers of such tales would), nothing more than cardboard characters of what they Could be.
Writing creates a kaleidscope of possibilities unseen before the scrwling letters weave their magic across the canvas.