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A new blog to contain answers to prompts |
Since my old blog "Everyday Canvas "  became overfilled, here's a new one. This new blog item will continue answering prompts, the same as the old one. Cool water cascading to low ground
To spread good will and hope all around.  |
| Prompt: Let this quote inspire your entry today: "Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen." Deep Roy ------- I think with this quote, the word positive needs a much better definition. Positive about what? Does this mean the authors have to be positive to embrace any idea that pops up their minds or does it mean they have to have a positive view of people and life, in general? Or does it even mean acting politely and nicely to any person, idea, place. or thing, even while not believing in its qualities? As to inspiration itself, is it that eureka moment when the ideas come up suddenly or is it the result of wanting to create something? What about the common adage, 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration? Just where does inspiration come from? People have different experiences and ideas about that, and so far that I know, there is no consensus. Then, there are quite a few very famous authors who were not positive about some or most things. For one, Kafka might not have been positive about his own work. As he was hardly known in his lifetime, he ordered a friend of his to burn all his manuscripts after his death. That friend ignored Kafka's dying wish. totally. So, now, Kafka is famous and keeps on influencing those who try to imitate him. Also, Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose work explored the human psychology and impressed me deeply during my high school years and still keeps on impressing me, was a depressed, complex person, with sometimes too strong, controversial religious and political views. He might have had moments of positivity, but in general, he wasn't really positive. To top it all, Shakespeare, a poet and playwright that I admire for his dramatic flair, also had a volatile temperament that showed up every now and then. How about that! As for me, I do like "positive" in my real life, and I try not to be a drama queen; however, I don't think whether I am positive or negative has an effect on my work in any area, let alone on my puny writing.  |
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you. I always like Mary Oliver's directness and her insights. I, like you, also think of her as an incredible poet, too. 
