Shouts From Down Under

Writing is like life, its purpose murky. Is that clear?

Are we the author of clarity, or the author of confusion?

Eggs is eggs, right? Or wrong? Are they not a stolen generation, half children of chickens? We live in a nasty world folks, where we eat chickens babies. Reality. Sunny side up.



Do we fluff around, telling our story with brushed over, swept under the carpet half truths, or do we write clearly, directly, truthfully, spending time, giving of ourselves, writing something that really costs us something to say.
Do we put something honest into our work? Do we put ourselves into our writing?

Sometimes I feel so sure that the secret of great writing, is simply the ring of truth. There is a whole truckload of honesty required, to discern if something, or someone, is truthful / true, or if it's not.

We know very well, I feel, if something is true or not. Deep down inside there is a knowledge about a written work, or it could be anything, any incident in life, and that thing, whatever it is, has a truth or untruth we can either accept, or deny.
But the thing is, it's there. That truth about it, or falseness, is there, whether we accept it or not. That's my feelings on this anyway.

There are many things that we can see for sure are true, or untrue, or something in between that is foggy, shrouded, confusing, open to argument, or has to be based on simply believing in it or not. Faith, you could say.

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/leading-anti-marijuana-academics-are-paid-by-pain...

http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/how-to-intensify-conflict-deepen-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlwecXJGXIk

http://www.thewritershelpers.com/post/47119153461/snakegrin-asked-do-you-have-an...

What if we wrote a story from multiple personality point of view, with some trauma added to the conflict that caused one or more of the personalities to be absent, and another or others to "activate" to protect the bearer, or main physical character, of these personalities? What if, to this was added, for reasons of plot steps / events, various genre types whereby the character and personalities had to cope? Behind all this sat the main purpose of the story with inherent conflict, romance, hero / heroine, protagonist, antagonist, onlookers etc.

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My point with all this is that we feel, or know, when someone's written work has that ring of truth. It may be based just on part truths, but it's written well enough to sound legitimate.

Other works are not so easily segregated. Depending which side of potential arguments we stand, some work's truthfulness can be swayed in our minds by our own bias.

Let's face it. Fiction is fiction. The very essence of it dictates that we are attempting to produce truth out of half truths. Can something be half true? Surely it's either true or false? Surely something is either dead or alive?

Have you noticed the examples where it wouldn't matter how convincing the writing, you wouldn't be swayed from what you've always believed, because you don't want to be.

Politics
Religion
Ethics
Culture
Football
Brandnames (Beer for instance, or Makes of car)
Writing styles
Standards of conduct

There's no doubt more.

I think though, that just now, there is an unchangeable truth that I'm 100% convinced is right.

I'm hungry. It's lunch time. I'd like a corned beef / silverside sandwich with pickles. And a coffee.

I'm not going to try to argue about this.


Sparky