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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.
December 1, 2016 at 11:41am December 1, 2016 at 11:41am
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Prompt: Gathering all the ingredients for a design is a favorite part of the creative process. What are your thoughts on this?
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It depends on what you are doing and if you are gathering the ingredients ahead of the work or during the process.
If you are painting a watercolor picture, for example, in addition to the paints, brushes, paper, and all else material, you have to have every step and the final idea of the picture in your head before you begin. (That’s why I wasn’t very good at it.) If you are painting in oils, however, you can create and try different things as you go along, which made me love the build-up process with oils. The same applies to knowing what you are writing beforehand with an outline and all the necessary research versus pantsing or freeflow, which I love to do as well. Talking for me, I like a good coincidence or a happy find, anytime.
This idea applies even to cooking. In cooking shows, we see all the ingredients on the counter in small neat containers. Obviously, that cook must have ten people helping her or him. In my case, not only because I lack counter space but also because I don’t like to make extra work for me, I take the ingredients in ones and twos and put them back in their places as I go along.
I don’t know how this idea works with every specific craft, but I believe each craft must have its basic rules. Sometimes, the necessary ingredients are complicated and varied and you have to have all of them in front of you before you begin. At other times, all the necessary materials for creativity are only a couple of things, such as your fingers, intellect, and the keyboard or a pencil and a note-book. 
Above all, the most basic ingredients are our imagination and perception. This means if we can spot the possibilities with our eyes and use a bit of imagination on the subject, we are on our way.
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