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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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"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.
February 28, 2016 at 2:53pm February 28, 2016 at 2:53pm
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Inspired by the ongoing political debates, in which the factfinders find the holes in facts and errors made on purpose, this Sunday, I wanted to write about mistaken judgments, not involving our circus-like political scene, but the writing of fiction. Funny, from where we all find inspiration!
As a principle, I respect everyone’s judgment whether it agrees with mine or not, but if a judgment ends with disaster, shouldn’t we call it mistaken? A mistaken-judgment situation in a piece of fiction needs a character who is mistaken, the victim of his acts or thinking, and the catalyst as a possible instigator or an incident.
The mistaken character can be one who is gullible as he believes in and trusts others or an intelligent one who is cold and calculating. He or she can be impulsively rushing to judgment and is not hesitant to stab another character in the back. This character can be the protagonist or the antagonist.
His victim or victims can be the protagonist and/or any other secondary character. He or she can be just a bystander or somehow-involved-in-the-mistake person or persons.
Some of the leading passions and emotions involved in the story can be:
jealousy
false suspicions or rumors
taking some event or some idea out of context
knowingly allowing false suspicions to support friends or allies
subconsciously trying to cause an event repeat itself, an event that hurt or helped him in the past
the general belief that someone or some notion is an enemy
errors purposely provoked by an outsider or an enemy
the indifference of the secondary or third-place characters or to what really matters
The catalyst, on the other hand, can be an event or a person. If a person, he or she may have some self-interest, may dislike or hate the mistaken character or his victim, may feel jealousy toward either one or both.
Now that I’ve listed all I could think of, isn’t it a coincidence that so much of the political scene fits so easily into here?  
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