I love this! Because like you, I'm into the details, especially in a pandemic when they're the only things adding dimension and wonder to the mundane. Charles Eames said, "The details are not the details. They make the design." Perhaps it's the artistic among us that feel this way? Perhaps it's a select few of sensitive types? I don't know specifically, but I appreciate those that take special notice of what often seems trivial or forgotten. 💗
In writing, I remember what a coach had told me once. " Use your five senses fully when you write. " Sometimes I cannot get the words and descriptions on to the paper or screen fast enough. The breathless flow that has you stop is something I can certainly understand.
Details are EVERYTHING! A long story even longer is beautiful when it means you're on the journey through the vivid description. Paint me a trip in five senses and I'm there every step of the way 😍
I’ve been accused of exaggerating, of being “too much”, sharing too much, or getting too close... it just took me a long time to figure out. Some of us are meant to be storytellers, because someone has to be.
If not us, who?
And if the world is held captive, begging for a sustenance in the form of sentences, I guess our words better get pressed to paper and bound so others may be freed.
Or, at the very least, our stories finally run the race regardless of who finishes first place. The point is, the tale’s been told.
I joined this group a few weeks ago. It has filled my heart with so much light, given me so much hope, that for the first time I took a friend’s advice and submitted a story to be published. It was accepted by the first publisher. It’s not a big deal, I won’t be paid, it’s not printed media, but it’s widely read and my first experience having a piece edited. (I don’t like that bit, at all, not even a little).
So, all that to say, thank you for this, everyone. Thank you for being who you are, thank you for letting the light shine through, thank you for the chance to let your beams fall on all of us.
I love this! Because like you, I'm into the details, especially in a pandemic when they're the only things adding dimension and wonder to the mundane. Charles Eames said, "The details are not the details. They make the design." Perhaps it's the artistic among us that feel this way? Perhaps it's a select few of sensitive types? I don't know specifically, but I appreciate those that take special notice of what often seems trivial or forgotten. 💗
In writing, I remember what a coach had told me once. " Use your five senses fully when you write. " Sometimes I cannot get the words and descriptions on to the paper or screen fast enough. The breathless flow that has you stop is something I can certainly understand.
Details are EVERYTHING! A long story even longer is beautiful when it means you're on the journey through the vivid description. Paint me a trip in five senses and I'm there every step of the way 😍
Yes! And I take detours.
I’ve been accused of exaggerating, of being “too much”, sharing too much, or getting too close... it just took me a long time to figure out. Some of us are meant to be storytellers, because someone has to be.
If not us, who?
And if the world is held captive, begging for a sustenance in the form of sentences, I guess our words better get pressed to paper and bound so others may be freed.
Or, at the very least, our stories finally run the race regardless of who finishes first place. The point is, the tale’s been told.
I joined this group a few weeks ago. It has filled my heart with so much light, given me so much hope, that for the first time I took a friend’s advice and submitted a story to be published. It was accepted by the first publisher. It’s not a big deal, I won’t be paid, it’s not printed media, but it’s widely read and my first experience having a piece edited. (I don’t like that bit, at all, not even a little).
So, all that to say, thank you for this, everyone. Thank you for being who you are, thank you for letting the light shine through, thank you for the chance to let your beams fall on all of us.