Sunday, May 23, 2010

Jarred Lightening

You gotta begin with the end in mind. I feel like I begin each one of these with that idea and then try to get lost in it. I start lost and work backwards. What’s more reasonable than that? I’ve found, the best kind of writing is the kind where the words are sitting on the edges of a finger tips, waiting to be beat into keys only to have their reflection forever trapped in a screen. Words aren’t tools. They’re wild animals to be domesticated, each one differing by temperament and size. Some are large and complex, while others are small and straight to the point. They start off appearing one way but by the end of all that is said and done, they become something much different. They evolve into a phrase, a question, or a paragraph. Because of the nature of the beast, words trapped on screen and paper will never be as strong as the animal that inhabits a spoken word, statement or speech. The fun of it all, of writing, is to trap the lightening in a jar and power to something otherwise limited in scope.

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