30 Day Journal Affirmation Challenge (Day 4) Response
Mary Lou Cook said, “Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.”
These words should ring true for every writer. Being a writer is a creative endeavor because
we have to take a thought from our head, turn it into a plausible story with a well-defined
structure, and put it into words in a way that it will help and bless the most
people possible. If that is not
inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making
mistakes, and having fun, then being a writer is not worth the time or the strain.
As writers, we pour out hearts out on a page. Each writer does it in their own way with
their own methodology. To see a writer
in action is a grand experience. The way
they use their hands to get the words on the page is unique. The way they form images using words is
amazing. The way the moral of the story
comes into view is brilliant. It is
indeed a creative moment for each writer.
Writing is a creative outlet that gives each writer freedom
for an idea that has haunted them for some time. It gives them a creative channel to vent
their feelings and frustrations with the world and with life. It gives them a creative conduit to share
their experience and knowledge with people who are dealing with the same thing
as they have gone through. There is
creativity in those words.
Creativity is for the writer, a means to create worlds,
places, people, images, moments, events, and the like that we have never seem
or experienced before. But, the writer
must be brave enough to put the words on a page, wrenching out their souls before
the world.
With each word that the writer carefully selects to convey
their point, they make the world better, brighter, and more entertaining. With each place that the writer wisely crafts,
they give the world new spaces to explore and visit. With each topic that the writer strategically
confronts, they give the world fresh perspectives to consider and investigate.
Each writer creates from their soul, forming thoughts,
words, ideas, and pictures into coherent stories and texts to enhance the
world. They show their creativity with
words.