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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
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
January 16, 2018 at 11:37pm January 16, 2018 at 11:37pm
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Prompt: What do you think it means when someone says: "They have done it all and been everywhere?" Just curious about what others think about this.
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Those words only remind me of a Johnny Cash song. Other than that, I’d revert to logic and question that someone about what he or she is saying. Who are “they”? What do you mean by “all” as no one can do everything that there is, and where is everywhere? Does that everywhere include the other star systems and galaxies for example?
Truth is, this saying is a hyperbole, which means it is an exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally. In other words, don’t pay attention or look for meaning in that person’s speech. If the statement would be in the first person as “I have done it all and been everywhere,” then, I’d think the person saying it was suffering from exaggerated false pride. As it is, the statement is just a manner of speaking in a gossipy, exaggerated fashion. To find meaning in it, one has to know the other sentences around it or the topic of discussion.
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Something Possibly Usable:
Looking through an old flash drive, I found a few notes in a word file. A long time ago someone must have sent me these 10 most important scenes to include in a novel. Not that original and I’ve never used this before; plus I am not sure who it was that did the sending. (C.S. Lakin maybe?) Since I want to keep the information as a reference, as formulaic as it is, I am posting it here.
#1: The hook and opening setup (first scenes)
#2: The disturbance or opportunity (10% mark) that starts the new direction.
#3: First Pinch Point: usually introduces the force of the opposition (33%, also called “First plot point”) and pushes the character along.
#4: Twist #1. Complication before the midpoint that impacts protagonist’s path toward his goal (which is locked in around the 25% mark).
#5: Midpoint. Character balancing on the knife’s edge—going forward now means no going back.
#6: Pinch Point #2. The opposition comes full force. New developments add tension and complications
#7: Twist # 2: big complication that will lead to scene 8. Usually some reversal, betrayal, unforeseen complication.
#8: Dark night of soul (turning point #4). Utter hopelessness. Biggest danger and belief she will fail.
#9: The big climax moment when hero reaches her goal and realizes her true essence.
#10: the end and resolution that wraps it all up and shows the results of reaching (or not) the goal.
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January 16, 2018 at 6:30pm January 16, 2018 at 6:30pm
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Prompt: “A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."
William James
What do you make of this quote?
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Common sense is something that arises from wisdom. Wisdom is giving each thing, event, or feeling its reasonable place in life. Humor helps this process flow more smoothly.
When we meet challenges with a sense of humor, we are better able to see new possibilities and options. Otherwise, we would run the risk of seeing the darker or grayer areas in everything.
As an example, why do people dance in weddings? A wedding, in its essence, is the celebration of a serious affair, a marriage, which is two people tying up the knot or rather themselves to each other for the rest of their lives. When you think of the repercussions of the seriousness involved here, nobody would dare get married, but the fun part of it, the wedding, makes this very serious idea easier to handle. The wedding and the dancing emphasize the good-work or good-relationship idea in the serious business of marriage through fun and laughter.
A sense of humor has the same spirit-lifting and lightening effect on wisdom and its offspring, common sense.
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