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Everyday Canvas

by Joy

Rated: 18+ · Book · Experience · #2003843

Second blog -- answers to an ocean of prompts

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN

Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.

David Whyte

This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

~SilverMoon~

about 22 hours ago
In response to "Why Red Wouldn't Eat Rabbits"

Nicely done.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

a day ago
In response to "Why Red Wouldn't Eat Rabbits"

Lovely!

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Lyn's a sly fox

May 3, 2024 at 1:08pm
In response to "May 3, 2024"

That's a phenomenal poem, Joy! Impressive job with the challenging words.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

May 2, 2024 at 7:47pm
In response to "Nature Walks"

Can you still take short walks? I hope so. Even a little bit of nature is refreshing.

Simply Me

May 2, 2024 at 5:41pm
In response to "Nature Walks"

You can take a hike virtually. Or just watch on UTube. like... 4K Nature Treasures of Hawaii Botanical Garden - Jungle Forest Cinematic Virtual Walk. Your memories will do the rest.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

May 1, 2024 at 7:56pm
In response to "Being Kind"

That's beautiful, Joy and Megan.

Joy, I love that you gave that avocado seed a new life! It might just need more fertilizer? Good luck!

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Princess Megan Rose 22 Years

May 1, 2024 at 12:31pm
In response to "Being Kind"

Being kind to others is so important. There would be no wars if everyone was nicer to each other. A good entry.

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🌸 pwheeler - love joy peace

Apr 29, 2024 at 3:30pm
In response to "To Smile About"

Your beautiful heart shines through this list of things that make you smile.

I love that acts of kindness to others makes you smile. I forgot to include nature and acts of kindness but they are definitely things that make me smile too.

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Joy

Apr 29, 2024 at 11:06am
In response to "C'est la Vie!"

intuey GoT Survivor!

Thanks for responding. Yes, I agree. Happy memories do not have the same intensity, but if they were really happy, they could help. I said "really" in the above sentence only because our minds have a way of cutting out and doing away with the bad parts of our memories. As they say, "Good old days"! Were they really that good?
Then, if we can do better by "getting our sorrows out" so be it. Whatever works!
Happy writing!

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intuey GoT Survivor!

Apr 29, 2024 at 8:04am
In response to "C'est la Vie!"

Very thought-provoking entry, Joy. I think sorrows and negative emotions carry deeper, more intense feelings that enable us to dig down deep and pour them out on paper.

At least that's what I find from my writings that mirror such emotions. After pouring out a writing, or a poem about the pain I'm experiencing from loss or betrayal, or wherever the negative emotion may stem from, I feel a bit lighter. It's like I poured it out on paper and in doing so I was able to lighten my heart and soul a bit.

I know in the past if I had something haunting me, I'd write it down on a piece of paper and burn the paper. In doing so, I felt like I was releasing that negative emotion from carrying it around. I felt that it really did help.

Happier feelings don't carry the intensity of negative ones. (At least in my experience). Also, the need to get them out isn't as strong, because you want to treasure them and hold them close to your heart. You don't ever want them to diminish, so you harbor them to keep them safe from disappearing. Writings of happy memories and times are nice but they don't have the same intensity.

And for me, that's okay. Because I need to get the sorrows out as much as possible. To me, it's therapeutic.

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April 20, 2019 at 11:51am

#957085

Fiction and Emotional Truths

Prompt: David Burns say, “The reason fantasy is an old but thriving literary genre is because fantasy stories speak to emotional truths.” Do you agree?

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Well, that purple heart does not belong only to the fantasy genre because most fiction deals with emotional truths. What the fantasy genre has over the others is the abundance of metaphors, which the readers may or may not catch on to while reading a fantasy story. In other words, the fantasy genre offers emotional truths by cleverly hiding them. So, from where I stand, the quote is only partly correct.

Fact is, all fiction is a lie that tells or points to truths, which the readers feel intuitively. The purpose of this telling or pointing to emotional truths is to create empathy. Empathy is the key purpose of all great literature when the stories cause the readers to feel the grief, annoyance, joy, love, and hate that the characters feel.

In addition, great literature never shields the readers from evidence or facts by cloaking them with emotion (sappiness). This clashing of emotion with the fact (that is, the facts as we know and understand them) and how a character either accepts his wrong and changes or resists can reveal to a reader a core emotional experience beyond the particular situation in a story. This is what is meant by emotional truths.

Thus, within the boundaries of great literature, the fantasy genre is only one player on a crowded stage.

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