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The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.~ Carlos Castaneda
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.~ Epictetus
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. ~Merry Browne.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. ~George Bernard Shaw.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~Marcel Proust.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ~Ziggy.
and, perhaps, most importantly:
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.~Anais Nin.
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Perception is a marvelous thing. It is how we view the world. It is also an important concept to keep in mind when writing. A case in point.
I am in the midst of 'writing' a story for someone to use in a project. She, having 'told' this story many times over the years has a clear idea of 'what she wants.' But, she thinks she cannot write it out and has hired me to write it for her. She 'explained' the concept of the story, told me of 'her vision' of it, and listed numerous ideas she wanted included. No problem. (Or so I thought.)
Taking her ideas I created a rough draft of her story. With input, I revised same. Over the weekend, she 'worked' on it some, basically rewriting it into her vision.
The interesting part of this is what we each 'saw' as the important concepts and how to present them. What became immediately clear was that we were not working on the same story at all. Obviously, I will write it the way she wants it done, I am merely the instrument by which the words eventually match her vision.
BUT I found it to be a clear example of how perception fits into the overall picture of what we write. I 'thought' I had 'gotten' what she wanted. I hadn't. Or I had, but my presentation of same didn't match her perceived idea.
Any time we write, we have this vision in mind, that clearly formed illusion that we transcribe into written word. Just because we see it, oh so clearly, does not mean our reader will, or can. . . or should!
Writing is all about communication. We always need to keep in mind that if we aren't communicating our thoughts (as we see them) then we haven't communicated, or at the very least, the communication that which we originally intended.
Perception is colored by a variety of lenses. Anything from mood, experience, the weather, the surroundings, relationships, to simply how we are feeling can cause perceptions to shift. These 'lenses' are also frail, of changeable thicknesses and affected by the amount of light (or darkness) surrounding us.
Have you ever heard someone, upon reading an interview, saying that 'that wasn't what I meant' or it was 'twisted around' or 'taken out of context?' How ideas are received as well as how they are presented are, as I have found out most clearly, not necessarily one and the same. Good lesson for me and so I thought, might be for other writers!
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vwsmith  : Thanks for the tip on adding a little foolishness in our romantic pieces. It would certainly add a sense of reality by giving the characters an added level of trust. You really have to have at least a tiny bit of trust in your partner if you reveal your silly self to them. Laughter is yet another form of intimacy.
It is that! I once read somewhere that when there is laughter in the midst of passion, only there is where a deep abiding love exists.
hbar : Now you have inspired me to give it another shot, or maybe continue a piece I gave up on. Sheesh, what a sap I am.
Inspiration is good! Sap? I doubt it! *grin*
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