 Noticing Newbies: November 21, 2007 Issue [#2074] |
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Our goal is to showcase some of our newest Writing.Com Authors and their items. From poetry and stories to creative polls and interactives, we'll bring you a wide variety of items to enjoy. We will also feature "how to" advice and items that will help to jump start the creation process on Writing.com
We hope all members of the site will take the time to read, rate, review and welcome our new authors. By introducing ourselves, reviewing items and reaching out, we will not only make them feel at home within our community, we just might make new friends!
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A Writer is the 'Middleman'
You may think I've gone completely barmy if you look at the title of this editorial, but really, it was one of those exciting flashes of inspiration. 
I was sitting here wondering exactly what to write about. I let my mind take a wonder and it drifted back to yesterday when I plucked a few leaves from a tree outside a church. The leaves, to me, were perfect, and I wanted to take with me a visual memory of the poetic phrases they caused to spring into my mind.
This led me to my title: A Writer is the 'Middleman'.  This is what I mean...
A writer is inspired by many things, as I discussed in my last issue. We take what our senses record and translate that into a story, a poem...words on a piece of paper (or computer screen) that build into something. Our reader may or may not have seen or heard what we did, so it is our job to translate those things into a comprehensible message. Not only comprehensible, but interesting and -- charming, passionate, sad, fast-paced, whimsical -- something, anything!
Consider for a moment a person who was born deaf. How can they even imagine what the chirp of a bird sounds like? Our job as a writer would be to describe it in a way a deaf person can enjoy the experience. We can look to our other senses to help us. A crow's harsh screech might be akin to touching the prickles on a cactus. The song of a bluejay might be the contentment of a warm spring day spent dangling your feet in a shallow, sun-warmed brook.
As a writer, we aim to convey the story that is roaming around our head into something other people wish to read. We are in charge of conveying our thoughts and the substance of our imagination, into the reader's experience. So we enable our readers to live vicariously through our conveyance. We can imagine the ugliness of Orcs due to J.R.R. Tolkein's creation and description, and also Peter Jackson's interpretation in the now famous movie trilogy - an interpretation that was possible due to Tolkein's initial ability to convey a sense of what he saw in his own mind.
Thus, we writers are the middlemen in life. Taking what we see, hear, feel, touch, smell, and taste, then presenting it to the reader so that they can not only experience it, but experience it through our eyes, ears, emotions, fingers, nose, and tastebuds.
Towards this end, of enabling me to fully convey my world to the reader, I have decided to become more tactile in my journalling. My journal of inspiration is going to include the leaves I plucked from the tree, and anything else that sparks an interest. I am no longer going to contain my writing journal to words on a page. Maybe yours already includes such things, maybe it does not.
Being the 'middleman' in this process is wonderful. What a privilege it is! -- to convey our imagination mixed with our experience and have the reader live in our world for a time. 
Write on!
Thanks for reading.
Puditat
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 Just a big Thanks to Puditat for including my poem, I hope you all enjoy it.
Thanks,
Mr. Dressing-gown
You're very welcome!
These newsletters are very helpful to me. I really enjoyed the discussion on individuality. Everyone has a different imagination, I really agree with that. Thank you for the advice to be more different with our writing.
lulubelle
It is my pleasure. It's always nice to hear positive feedback. 
I liked what you said about putting a new twist on all ready existing ideas. It kind of makes you think.
BreenaRose
I can hear those brain cells sizzling. Hopefully this week's issue has the same effect.
Nice topic. I have been taken by Writer's Block before, and it's nice to be reminded that others get it also. I find it helpful to read someone else's writing for inspriration, watch a good movie, or go for a hike. These things help get the mind going and sometimes make your writing a bit better than before.
Bethy604
Experience is a great inspiration. Even if we don't use the actual event or activity, we can use the emotions it stirred within us.
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