a writer and a painter..

"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature." - Ernest Hemingway

Blank; this paper seemingly starts blank, though as my fingers slowly reach the keyboard, I'm reminded of what I had come here to do, my mind slowly analyzes and combines the words to which I want to be heard, ideas slowly begin to spill like an overflowing cup, creativity is blessed within my soul, and I have written yet another ten pages. I've written about love, tragedy, lies, truth, hate, anger, suffering, and life. Each coinciding together, each close together yet each far apart, like siblings of a kind; each from the same mother, but each different and diverse in trait, in trade, in heart, and in soul.

A writer writes what she believes, what experiences she goes through, just as a painter sees what he perceives in front of him, what moments are frozen in their mind. We simply can't let it go, we have to take it and store it somewhere, store it safely where time can hold on to it and pass it down from mind to mind. We keep what makes us smile, what makes us laugh, even what makes us cry, our memories good or bad is our tools, our hammer and chisel.

"Influence comes from what happens in this life and the next." - Ryan D.