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What part do your feelings and emotions play in your writing? Can contentedness inspire?
This week's Drama Newsletter is all about the Well of Inspiration, or what helps us to create our best writing.
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First of all, my congratulations to all "The Quills" winners, and my thanks to those who nominated and voted for my work. I didn’t manage to write many items last year, so I am happily surprised to have had some success. I hope that those of you who won a Quill will allow the result to encourage you in future endeavours, and that those who missed out will find plenty of inspiration this year and join the winners’ circle in the next round. Of course, remember to nominate any excellent works (written in 2023) that you come across in your journeys around Writing.Com – the Quills depend upon your kindness and support of other authors.
The poems in my portfolio that received Quills this year were both of a dark and/or emotional nature. It made me think of how I tend to feel inspired to write less-than-happy items, rather than items filled with cheer or, at least, contentment. Sure, I’ve won awards for a comedy poem about sock-stealing grannies, and a children’s poem about an adventurous fish, but a lot of my work can best be described as an outpouring of feelings and emotions. I know that I am not alone in this.
How many love songs involve a couple who’ve been together for a good amount of years, when that first rush of romance has passed, and who nowadays contentedly work as a team, facing life’s ups and downs together? It’s the reality for many people, but contentedness either doesn’t inspire, or doesn’t sell, because if I had to put together a playlist of songs about these every-day relationships I’d fall short. Instead of lyrics about coming home from work, sharing kitchen duty and making sure the kids have done their homework, creativity flows in the direction of those first sensations of love. The excitement. The passion. Or, the breakdown of love, with all the hurt, loss and confusion that comes with it. I’ve wailed along to a good broken-hearted song in the past. Again, I know that I am far from alone in that.
Likewise, you don’t get a lot of stories about people who meet, get to know the other, fall in love, and everything goes fine. There have to be some obstacles, some misunderstandings. A fall-out or two. There has to be some kind of drama that’ll hopefully lead to a happy ending, but then you’ll rarely get to read about what comes after. The dishes and the diapers, the vacuum cleaning and the nights when neither can be bothered to cook, so it’s pizza time.
Life can be dramatic, of course. Few of us will go through life without any pain or sorrow. It’d be nice if we all met the right person for us straight away, and we’ll contentedly spend our years together, becoming one of those couples who still hold hands when they’re in their eighties, still happy, still caring. That is not usually the case.
And that’s just romantic love. Humans live with love and loss of family, friends and pets. We may lose a job, or fail to achieve the career that we’ve dreamed of. The living circumstances in our country may improve or decline. Both happiness and grief are constant possibilities and a way to cope with this is to write. Writing can help process emotions, feelings and frustrations. It’s an excellent outlet.
I have, in the past, written many a blog post (and some newsletters) about my frustrations with the state of the world. I have shared my ups and downs. Over the years you’ll have come to know me more than some of my offline friends, because it can be easier for me to let it out here than express myself face-to-face. Some of these expressions of pain and frustration are, if I may say so myself, quite decent. You may well have some items in your portfolio that will surprise you when you read them back. They may be better than you remember.
Let’s keep on writing, then. Let’s continue to express ourselves, whatever our feelings and emotions. You never know… that outpouring may well produce a gem.
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