Good morning one and all. It's Monday!
I write a lot of different types of materials, from poetry to children's fiction to high tech pieces, and I realize that I do this to strike a balance.
I write poetry to slip into my own inner-world. It's almost as if I'm in a coma while I'm writing. The part of me that writes poetry is haunted and ancient and I release a lot of emotion and stress through my poetry.
When I write children's fiction it is serious yet playful at the same time. I want to engage the children so I craft the sentences simply but pack in lots of detail and emotion and action. I almost want the children to be able to feel what I'm writing--making it a full-body experience. That is the way children live and how I think they should read too.
High tech writing is completely different: It is devoid of emotion. I think it is wonderful for that reason alone. When I write high tech content I can be completely technical without having to appeal to any emotions whatsoever. I can be up-front with the decision makers about the features and functions of a specific software and how that software will address their immediate tech needs. That's what writing for the technology industry is all about.
It is only recently that I realized I had struck an eclectic, but highly functional, balance in my writing life. I can't always be in an emotional coma, nor can I always be emotionless, so I've opted for the extremes and something fun to balance out the middle. It works for me.
4 comments:
I am sure that your experience writing one type of material benefits you in writing the others; poetry, for example, can be surprisingly technical and precise, but should have the immediacy and impact of the best children's lit.
And of course, you write your blog, which is a fourth type of material...
That's true.
And I am an obsessive journal writer too. Have been since I was about 11, so...OK I admit it, I just love to write.
Yup. Mixing things up seems to be the healthy way to go about this writing business. I dabbled in a bit of poetry writing this year, completely for fun, and found it released some tension... somehow. It was fun, anyway. I know I can't stay serious and deep and introspective for too long. Something has to give. Something like a week-end has to come around.
That is sooo true! I love my 'weekends'!
Being serious is something that has always come naturally to me, but I have noticed recently that I giggle (in a cute, womanly way of course) more now than I think I ever have.
There is a certain joyfulness that comes with getting older (well I'm not too old, but I mean maturing, I guess)that is really liberating.
It's also great to know yourself better and that definitely comes from life experience and time!
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