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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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Everyday Canvas #919829 added September 5, 2017 at 12:57pm
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Using Strengths to Overcome Weaknesses
Prompt: “You have to use the strength to get to the weakness.” I heard this on the tennis channel. What do you make of it?
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Although this was said about backhand versus forehand strengths originally, I thought it would also apply to life and subsequently to writing.
It is important to see the weakness as it is, no more, no less, and in wherever or which area it may be. Then, we should also look at the strengths through the same criterion.
In our personal lives, we can confront the dark parts of ourselves with our strengths, which begin with forgiveness and our willingness to wrestle with what’s dark.
Generally, in life, one good strength to nurture is love. When we love people, things, and doing things, we end up performing more. People who love more can perform more and can accomplish more.
As much as love is our greatest strength, fear is our greatest weakness. Fear, although it is a weakness, may have its uses, for it alerts us to what is dangerous and what it is that we need to work on and overcome. Fear makes people hide; love makes them step forward and take on what is needed to be done. Second to love, a great strength is tenacity, in order words, keeping at it and not giving up.
Applied to writing, although we may love our work, our characters, our story, if we lack tenacity, we won’t be able to finish a story or write anything else. And fear as a weakness, applied to writing, won’t let us try a new idea, a new approach, or working with something we think only the professional writers and poets can handle. It is true that maybe our first try won’t be getting a huge applause, but if we love the art of writing enough and keep at it and repeat our efforts while learning more on the subject, it is highly possible that we will end up with an award-winning piece.
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