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EXCESS IS NECESSARY?

Blog City Prompt: Anais Nin said: “Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.”
Do you think emotional excess is necessary for creativity and writing?

Absolutely! Great art has always come from fear, love, loss of love, terrible secrets, vengeance, jealousy, revenge, triumph over adversity, and on and on.

Milder, gentler creations are appreciated, but not always considered great art. Then there is humor and comedy that brings a smile or a laugh. Sometimes more important to well being than all the dramatic stuff, especially for children.

The other element within creative art is whether it is truthful. Excess for the sake of trying to achieve greatness is not cool. Especially when the excess is deliberately employed to influence book sales and ratings. Tacky! (Has Madonna lost her mind?)

The volume of material that is published is beyond imagination. What the agencies and PR firms think up to promote their product usually has little to do with reality other than to create desire. You might say we live in a world of created illusions.

A successful fiction story is an illusion that feels believable and credible. One of the keys to great art, I believe. If a story can carry your imagination along, you might not even realize the talent and skill that put your mind there.

Can you see behind the illusion? Can you create illusion?

Write on...>>>iggy

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