Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Fri, Jan 30 2009
Words and matter
My head is full of leftover chatter from a banking appointment. We spoke of A shares, B shares, C shares, preferred stocks, bonds, mutual funds, brokerage, sweep, equity, growth and a half dozen other terms that seem to make sense at the time and then began to shuffle themselves to the back of my crowded mind as I tried to navigate toward the next vital task looming in front of me.
It's a bit the same with a writer juggling all the current projects at once, with lines from the verse of a poem edging into a novel, which takes the cue for its next chapter from a short story that had its birth after looking up three words in a dictionary. For a writer, words whirl and posture like elements of an old universe making room for new worlds.
Maybe that's why God invented black holes. They keep the twists and turns of old matter from choking out new worlds. Disappearing into a black hole sounds scary, but may not be a bad thing at all if only we knew what happened next. Maybe the same is true for the way old thoughts are recycled into new stories.
posted at: 13:17 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
My head is full of leftover chatter from a banking appointment. We spoke of A shares, B shares, C shares, preferred stocks, bonds, mutual funds, brokerage, sweep, equity, growth and a half dozen other terms that seem to make sense at the time and then began to shuffle themselves to the back of my crowded mind as I tried to navigate toward the next vital task looming in front of me.
It's a bit the same with a writer juggling all the current projects at once, with lines from the verse of a poem edging into a novel, which takes the cue for its next chapter from a short story that had its birth after looking up three words in a dictionary. For a writer, words whirl and posture like elements of an old universe making room for new worlds.
Maybe that's why God invented black holes. They keep the twists and turns of old matter from choking out new worlds. Disappearing into a black hole sounds scary, but may not be a bad thing at all if only we knew what happened next. Maybe the same is true for the way old thoughts are recycled into new stories.
posted at: 13:17 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
