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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.
October 23, 2014 at 1:56pm October 23, 2014 at 1:56pm
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Isn’t it something that what we write sometimes ends up being preachy? But then, when we express our thoughts aren’t we preaching them, anyway?
Still, what I think and write has nothing to do with forcing things into others’ minds or posturing or trying to repair people and situations. I write stuff to put forth what I think and do, which is not always perfect. I found out, if a message needs be given, it is better to conceal it in a story. This is where fiction matters. Whether we are writers and readers, fiction is art and art can be loved, and the art of fiction is loved by many.
Studies on brain and brain scans show that what we read as we are reading it, affects us. Scientists found out that the brain does not make much of a distinction between reading about an experience and encountering it in real life. So when we read, our brain thinks we are experiencing the story, which accounts for our dreaming about what we read, as some of my night dreams involve my daytime reading. Yesterday I read a short fiction in which a young girl was kidnapped. Last night, I dreamt I was searching to find that girl and rescue her.  If I told this dream to a psychiatrist without mentioning the story I read, I think, he'd have a ball with my dream, and falsely so.
Another benefit of fiction is giving an opportunity to the reader to enter fully into other people’s thoughts and feelings and exploring their social and emotional life. Sometimes, this may even serve as an exercise for our real-life social skills, as fiction is a useful simulation, just like the weightlessness the astronauts experience in the simulation chamber before taking off into space.
Yet, the true value of fiction is in its aesthetic value as we are given great freedom and imagination while we read. For that reason, reading fiction should be pleasurable first before any literary criticism can be given to a story whether it is inside one’s mind or in print.
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