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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Daily Cascade #1093350 added July 13, 2025 at 12:34pm
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On Writing Prompts and Blogging
Prompt: Writing Prompts
Is it easier for you to answer a writing prompt than come up with something on your own? And do you think writing prompts are helpful to you, and if you do, which kinds of writing prompts do you look for?
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I guess it depends. Sometimes, when I have to come up with something on my own, I have to think for a while. When there is a prompt, however, some of the answer is there right inside the prompt. So, I guess, answering a prompt is easier for me.
Then, I don't look for any kind of a prompt to write for. I think to get ahead with my writing, I should be able to answer any prompt, provided the prompt doesn't ask for anything X-rated and itself is not X-rated. That is why I answer every prompt in Blog City, and only in Blog City, This is because, even if other blog groups may be as good or worse or better, for the sake of time and clear thinking, I like to stick to one group.
I think daily blogging gets a writer into a discipline, and for that, it is priceless. In my case, writing to a prompt every single day has helped me with other things concerning writing in general. If only I knew this before blogging and blogging groups were invented! In those earliest of days, I used to keep personal journals but they were only for my eyes, and not the same as blogging.
Blogging also helps a writer develop their own personal expression. Probably because my earlier writing had to do with serious academic kind of voice, I grew to appreciate blogging a lot. From time to time, I still fall into my old habits, and when I do, I don't erase what has popped out, but add something to ease off that kind of a tight, serious expression. This way, I have found that, with blogging, it is easier to find a friendlier, more easy-going kind of a voice and expression.
Also, once in a rare while, my blog post may read like an essay, but then, so what? I am satisfied that, at least, I have written something for the day.
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