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Survey: Novelist, Poet, & Beyond ... (Just for Fun!) |
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** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** WRITER AND BEYOND We save the lone word from loneliness against itself yet can find no cure for cakes of dust behind a forgotten shelf ~ Can’t cook a killer Gumbo or make strings of a violin weep and sway; but we whip up bowls of muse and mojo and call it a day ! A life in the balance, do you know CPR? no ~ and yet you bring them back to life from a simple metaphor! You are a Writer, and beyond … We are a hodge-podge of atoms; a myriad of clouds. We are a Single thought, and a Universe of Emotions. We are writers, and beyond . . . The Artwork above, done by Kaya Poe, http://www.writing.com/main/view_item/user_id/kayawade, depicts my sentiments that Creative people are facets of multi-layered prisms, ever revolving, reflecting loneliness, reflecting each other, reflections of a world that cannot speak, so we are its throatless voice ~ its unwritten Poetry ~ its quiet Soul that begs to scream. We are mirrors of the unsung Sonnet, and yet we might falter knowing East from West, nor particularly care for making up a bed in the early morning hours. Welcome to my Survey, Behind the Writer. This is just a fun little survey to evaluate ourselves as Writers vs. Other Human Qualities; Creativity vs. Domesticity, LOL. So, please don't take it too seriously. Of course I'm not a total slob, or I don't think my husband would have stayed around for almost twenty years. However, I guess what I am fishing for is this: There's almost nothing I can't write about, but I couldn't cook a Soufflé to save my life. If standing in front of a firing squad and they asked me would I like to say one last word, it would be: I wish I could have written the most perfect poem. I'd rather struggle between two stanzas than stand there in a squeeky-clean kitchen. I can weave words out of emptiness from the afghan and quilts of threaded air, but I can't sew a button on a shirt, and that doesn't bother me. While my friend across the country is making a Chocolate Mousse to die for, and proud of it, I pride myself in the fact that I move people with powerful metaphor and imagery and they digest my morsel of verse as though it went down like creamy Vanilla Pudding. And I don't lose sleep over the fact that I don't have a green thumb nor can I solve hypothetical equations or hang wallpaper. But ask me to make words bloom, or decipher the mathematics behind structured meter, or paste borders across dangling participles, and I'm there, all the way! I'd rather be sitting there composing a new Poem than cleaning the bathroom or cutting the lawn outside where the grass is taller than I am. (Just kidding, but close). It has been known that highly-Creative people fail or fall short in other areas of their life. For instance, ask me to write a Poem in ten minutes, I can do it, eyes closed. Ask me the square root of 50, and I will look at you as though you asked me to design a Blue Print for Rocket Science. Yes, I'm afraid, but not ashamed to admit that I'm not smarter than a Fifth Grader, LOL! Also, though not an outright slob, I also wouldn't win any Awards for Housekeeper of the Year, either. Martha Stewart would run out of my house as though she witnessed Freddie Kruger oozing out of the walls. So, I beg you: if ever you come to visit me here in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, please don't eat off my floors, LOL. I don't even want my dogs to do that. Yet ask me what I've been doing lately, and I will tell you I'm publishing my second book, and Book Three is in the works. Housework? I'll find every excuse in the world to avoid it. I do it as much as I can to keep the house "liveable" and that's about all she wrote, LOL! There is major dust on my end tables, but there's a new short story I've started on my computer desktop in Microsoft Word. Who's to say my priorities are screwed up? I may not be able to cook a tender roast enough to feed ten people, yet I can sit down and compose a Lyric or a Novella within a reasonable amount of time, and it will come out pretty decent, publishable, even. I'm no Susie HomeMaker/Baker, but I might well be the ghost of Emily Dickinson. Is there anyone else out there, like me? Creative 100%, but falling short as far as catching up with two day-old laundry? You can't make homemade bread, but you can sit down and compose a winner Quatrain or Free Verse poem, no problem? You don't know how to change the oil in your car, or change a flat tire, but someone asks you to explain a metaphor, and you give them more information than they ever wanted to know about metaphors, and then some! Sound familiar? Or, you go to Wal-Mart, come out with candles and another notebook and pens instead of Comet to clean the soap scum around your bathtub. It has often been stated that Creative people excel in many areas, but often when it comes down to domestic responsibilities ~ we might forget how many sugars we take in our coffee much less our spouse's; we can become brain-dead when it comes to simple, mundane gestures, and yet be geniuses in other areas of our lives where creativity counts. And pays. I'm just doing this for fun, and yes, curiosity, too, I won't lie to you. I don't want to be labelled "a crazy Poet" ~ stuck out there in space on my own. You got it, I want company, LOL, in the Sanitarium of the Non-Writing World. What other excuse can I use? Let's see . . . I'm blonde . . . not a senior, yet ~, grapling, here . . . I will be adding more as I think of them, and you are more than welcome to add to the list. Suggestions welcome! Remember, this is just for entertainment purposes and not to be taken seriously. Of course I can cook a little, and my house is not unbearable. All I am saying is, I'm a better writer than I am a housewife, LOL and when it comes to other domestic duties. Let's just poke a litte fun at ourselves, and have fun doing it. And, regardless if, during the endeavor, you find out that you just might fall in the category of a real slob, so what? You have a Best-Seller under your belt, who cares? I wish I could post the responses. I have found out I'm not alone in my desire to write more, dust less, LOL! Some of the answers have been downright hilarious/hysterical . . . I wish this system could post your answers to this survey so you could get the kicks and giggles I have received in reading those who have participated, when, ahem, they should have been cleaning those baseboards or the water marks that get behind the kitchen faucet . . . yeah, those, the ones you forgot to clean because you were too busy writing that Short Story. Caught red-handed, were ya? You're not alone with your hands in the cookie jar of creativity. Or so I found out. Okay, there's ten questions here, go for it! Let's Here From All of You Writers First~Mortals Later Out there, I can't be the ONLY ONE! If there was a fire, would we grab the bills or the Novel we're working on . . . hummmmmmmmmm.....that seems to be a no-brainer to me, what about you, LOL? Heeeeelp..................!!! |
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