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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 #1096178 added August 30, 2025 at 12:56pm
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How I Write
Prompt: “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to the page and write." — Stephen King
Do you sit in front of your computer waiting for inspiration? Or do you carry a notebook and go do things, jutting down notes throughout your day and then write. Share how your writing begins... we're curious.
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Nope, I don't have the time for sitting around and waiting. I never had and never did. And I have notebooks, yes; however, I don't carry them around with me. Carrying my cellphone is enough pain as it is, but I have a notepad in my cell, with limited memory. It comes in handy, although I use it rarely. I carry my cell with me all the time, only because I promised my sons to do that. Silly guys! They worry about me.
I used to write a lot more and often, but since my eyes, due to old age, are slightly failing, I don't spend too much time trying to write. That is why, lately, I only write in my blog and the monthly WdC NL. I promised myself to write into my blog, each day, just so that I don't forget how to write.  Then, in the evening, I write in my journal longhand. I miss the old me, though, who used to write a lot from the NANO novels to you-name-it.
As to how my writing begins, I sit at the computer, open a page, and write whatever, or bleed into the page, as they say. If I am writing about something I have little or no knowledge of, then I run a search on the internet first. Never in my life, have I waited for inspiration. Just maybe, inspiration passes me by. 
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