What’s all this about Magic
October 31st 2007 04:56
Well, magic is what makes the difference between a business report and a great novel.
Both are probably fiction, but, when you read a business report the reaction is often, “You’ve got to be joking.” While a great novel caresses your belief, molding it around the words, gently folding it to encompass a total world beyond reality. Origami of the soul. Where a single strip of wrinkled brown paper can contain the essence of a beautiful young lady.
Can you drive through a rainbow? Yes, I have done it. I have yet to find the words to do the experience the justice it deserves.
I could write a thousand words about it. But to understand the reality you would have to read them in a fraction of a second.
Writing pins words and experiences to the page.
Magic releases the words to form an alternative reality, albeit, a fleeting one.
As a writer you enter the world of shamanism. You become the story teller and the story becomes the world. You hold that world in the palm of your hand, and yet, if you try to grasp it, it will wither and die.
As a shaman it is your job to release the words, give them meaning and life beyond the page. Set them loose to stalk across the imagination, taking no prisoners, but rather, capturing spirits, tagging them with another life and releasing them back into the wilds of the mind. The same spirit, true, but changed with the magic of words.
Both are probably fiction, but, when you read a business report the reaction is often, “You’ve got to be joking.” While a great novel caresses your belief, molding it around the words, gently folding it to encompass a total world beyond reality. Origami of the soul. Where a single strip of wrinkled brown paper can contain the essence of a beautiful young lady.
I could write a thousand words about it. But to understand the reality you would have to read them in a fraction of a second.
Writing pins words and experiences to the page.
Magic releases the words to form an alternative reality, albeit, a fleeting one.
As a writer you enter the world of shamanism. You become the story teller and the story becomes the world. You hold that world in the palm of your hand, and yet, if you try to grasp it, it will wither and die.
As a shaman it is your job to release the words, give them meaning and life beyond the page. Set them loose to stalk across the imagination, taking no prisoners, but rather, capturing spirits, tagging them with another life and releasing them back into the wilds of the mind. The same spirit, true, but changed with the magic of words.
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