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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 12, 2017 at 12:42pm November 12, 2017 at 12:42pm
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Prompt: How do you manage to maintain your commitment to writing (especially if you're involved in NaNo, for example) during periods of busy real-life happenings (like now, with holidays approaching)?
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I don’t find it difficult to commit to writing emotionally because I am committed, possibly by birth, but what I am finding difficult is handling my real life and the people in it when I take on a project with a deadline. That is why, at this point in my life, I am not attempting any publishing projects because the way things are, I may not be able to hack it, and as a writer, you don’t want to upset any publisher or editor. (For upset, piss off was the first word that came to mind and it probably is the right one.)
NaNo is another project with a deadline, but if I don’t finish it by its deadline, it is okay. No real harm comes to me at the end. I have been doing NaNo since 2008, except 2016, and I finished all the novels by or before the November 30 deadline. In 2016, I didn’t attempt NaNo because I had house guests practically for the entire month, and there was no way I could have done it.
Still talking about NaNo, if I write over 2000 words per day during the first 10 days, then I can finish the novel, usually. Also, thinking that November ends on the 25th day helps to speed up the writing process earlier.
Still, I am not sure about this year, but then, during the writing process, I am not sure about Nano, in any year, and this year is just as iffy.
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November 3, 2017 at 6:39pm November 3, 2017 at 6:39pm
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Prompt: Agree or Disagree--
"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before." —Albert Einstein
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Agreed!
Nothing is wrong in following the crowd, but I believe life is an opportunity. Following the crowd usually has no creativity in it and it is not as safe as one might believe. Also, it depends on what kind of a crowd you are following. I mean, you could be following the MAFIA, right?
Doing one’s own thing, call it walking alone if you will, is seeing what could be and asking why can I not do this? Especially for women, the sky is the limit, if only we could make our own eyes sharp enough to see that sky.
Walking alone is an indication of one’s love for life, and it takes imagination and courage. For some women, in the past and in those societies that oppress females, these qualities have been and are discouraged. Walking alone is overcoming this kind of a conditioning, and not looking over one’s shoulder at what others are doing, but moving forward, doing new things, and experimenting with life without self-doubt, regardless of success or failure.
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Dear BC friends, I miss you, but I can't write every day when something else like NaNo is going on. This evening, however, I wanted to give that craze a short rest. I so miss blogging especially when I can't find the time or the mind for it.
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