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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.
November 2, 2015 at 11:27pm November 2, 2015 at 11:27pm
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Prompt: “I feel I change my mind all the time. And I sort of feel that’s your responsibility as a person, as a human being — to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don’t contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you’re not thinking.” -- Malcolm Gladwell
In reference to the above quote, do you think changing one’s mind regularly is a good thing?
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If the situations and results change, I don’t see any problem with changing one’s mind with the assessment of circumstances. Just to change one’s mind, however, as if a prescribed drill, is false practice, the way I look at it. I don’t think the underlying, essential truths ever change, but the events, times, and needs may. When that happens, it is fine to change one’s mind or course of action.
Possibly, the quote could be about staying informed and being on top of things mentally. I have no quarrel with that, but changing one’s mind just for the sake of change is feeling like some form of a mental instability to me.
I can see how and why the experts in science and history need to change their minds with the constant barrage of discoveries, newly found facts, and innovations. That is definitely a virtue for the advancement of our civilization.
What I don’t see is why I should change my moral code, way of life, my likes and dislikes in general, just to be fashionable in the so-called “thinking” world.
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November 2, 2015 at 11:03am November 2, 2015 at 11:03am
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Prompt: They say you’re only crazy if you think so. Can you think of some crazy writing ideas, and what is the craziest writing idea you ever attempted?
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Here’s a list, which is what I can think of right now.
1. Writing while walking = I’ve done that
2. Writing in a moving vehicle = Done that, too.
3. Writing while standing up = I bought a tall laptop table for that, but my writing goes slow when I am standing. Surfing the net, however, is okay. You’d think writing while standing up would help the brain; it doesn’t mine. Nothing helps mine.  So I adjusted a swivel desk chair to it; I am now still sitting and writing while my laptop rests on the tall laptop stand. Much ado for nothing.
4. The writing prompts that are far out:
• The erotic love life of someone respectable or making fun of an idea or belief you or others revere-I haven’t tried that, possibly out of fear; you know what happened to Salman Rushdie.
• Thinking from the POV of some object that can’t think and having it take an active role in the lives of your characters; come to think of it, not a bad idea. All those 'think's here. Maybe too much thinking is counterproductive.
• Write in another language you know little or not at all. I did that while learning a language or two with dire results, making my teachers reach for their AK-47s.
• Have your inner critic write for you. Gotcha, Inner Critic!
Never mind the list I just came up with. The craziest writing idea I ever attempted is the one I am doing now, for NaNo. The idea is not too bad, but it might lend itself better to a novella thought better with a good amount of preparation and written while taking a longer time; not for NaNo in a month and with the 50,000 words hanging over my head like the sword of Demosthenes. 
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