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The Art of Writing
The Art of Writing
‘Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of
“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the
trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests,” quoth
A vault of thoughts
Locked away.
– Age 7 –
“A writer.”
– Age 12 –
– Age 17 –
“What do you want to be when you’re older?”
“A writer of some sort. I’d like to expose myself to other styles, such as
A writer waits.
uncertainty?
absolute freedom. He/She has no master except his own soul, and
- Roald Dahl
Writing is an art.
A craft.
It has parts.
Words.
Characters.
Scenes.
Textual film.
Dialogue.
Background.
Backstories.
There’s no one right way to write a story and express your thoughts;
your feelings technically-speaking.
Like magic;
Like birds;
Like freedom.
For allowing me to descend into both the cold abyss of myself and to the
For pushing me to craft sentences and paragraphs that flow like water
and yet, have the ability to lodge themselves in the readers’ minds like
memories;
freely;
make me believe;
For everything.
Writing is an art.
Like a paintbrush and its thistles transport color and thought onto a
canvas,
Some turn to math and numbers and solving mysteries to distract and
calm themselves.
Some turn to academia to quell their everlasting thirst for knowledge and
I let my thoughts drift and wander till they choose to jump out of my
I let the words of (far more famous) writers before me calm me and
teleport me to the worlds they have painted and crafted
Writing is a friend.
Writing is a lover.
and puzzles.
or for an assignment,