imagination.
Imagination.
Ingenuity.
Understanding, and being inspired by, human nature.
There is more to writing than just putting words together. Writing comes from something else, something that pushes the limit to create a profound comprehension of the world and a certain clarity of thought. Writing is notoriously personal, and is, in its highest achievement, universal. Ideally, it should be both.
A writer is
responsible for the obvious task of communicating an idea or occurrence,
but a grander mission might be one of connection - bringing one person
closer to another by reporting on what it means and feels like to be
human. To live in this sometimes confusing world with one another, and
still have enough insight to tell about it. To let a person know that they
are not alone in a thought, a dream, an idea.
A writer, after
all, holds a strange sort of power in the written word. It can be sweet.
It can be dangerous. Nonetheless, it must always be true.
"Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow."
- William Blake
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