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On Writing The Truth
There is an old adage, "The truth is stranger than fiction." If we believe this, then as writers, how can we write about "strange" things, and convince people that what we state is true?
Some people say that the art of writing fiction is the art of telling beautiful lies, based on the truth, in such a way that people still believe the stories. And beyond the artifice, fiction, when written well, by playing with the facts, will reveal deeper truths, which are universal.
It is my belief that what we writers write about is often the emotional truth or our own personal truths.
For me, the veracity of our words will move people when we use simple, unadorned language. Think about the lie. The bigger the lie, the more elaborate the telling of it will be. Think about the truth, simply stated, often in words of one syllable, it will hit home. Readers do not have to work to "register" the words, which frees the mind to do work at a subliminal level.
This means that the work of the reader is in their own personal interpretation to discover the deeper meaning.
Poetry is a good medium for writing about emotionally volatile subjects. A good poem, like a snapshot of film, will tell part of a story, in such a way that the reader will feel the emotional impact of the entire story within that small frame of time and space.
When writing poems, I refer to an old book of wisdom, The Tao, which states that what is not there, is as important as what is there. The spaces "in between" are portals for the reader to discover, in their re-reading and reinterpretation, their own emotional truths.
Indeed, there is such thing as truth in the objective world, but in the subjective world, we each perceive the world in a similar way to others, but in a way which is unique to us as individuals.
Some people say that the art of writing fiction is the art of telling beautiful lies, based on the truth, in such a way that people still believe the stories. And beyond the artifice, fiction, when written well, by playing with the facts, will reveal deeper truths, which are universal.
It is my belief that what we writers write about is often the emotional truth or our own personal truths.
For me, the veracity of our words will move people when we use simple, unadorned language. Think about the lie. The bigger the lie, the more elaborate the telling of it will be. Think about the truth, simply stated, often in words of one syllable, it will hit home. Readers do not have to work to "register" the words, which frees the mind to do work at a subliminal level.
This means that the work of the reader is in their own personal interpretation to discover the deeper meaning.
Poetry is a good medium for writing about emotionally volatile subjects. A good poem, like a snapshot of film, will tell part of a story, in such a way that the reader will feel the emotional impact of the entire story within that small frame of time and space.
When writing poems, I refer to an old book of wisdom, The Tao, which states that what is not there, is as important as what is there. The spaces "in between" are portals for the reader to discover, in their re-reading and reinterpretation, their own emotional truths.
Indeed, there is such thing as truth in the objective world, but in the subjective world, we each perceive the world in a similar way to others, but in a way which is unique to us as individuals.
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