Writing as Culture. Everyday Creative.
“Writers are culture carriers. Their storytelling helps us understand each other and the world.” Hamish McKenzie, Chief Writing Officer, Substack.
I loved this. Came from a quote in a Substack company newsletter. I write to make sense of my thoughts and the world around me. As writers we write to create pathways to the world. Our own, those of others and those of our own creation.
In what ways does your writing contribute to culture? That of your community, your profession, your family, the world?
Yours in Creativity,
Bridgitte
Pretty Picture.
Poetry Read.
Random Poetry Writing.
Austin Kleon does this blackout poetry. I love it. I’m not sure how he does it. I’m sure I could learn more from his website, but I haven’t gone down that rabbit hole just yet. The other day, I randomly flipped through some pages of Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out, to come up with my own blackout poems. They are not great, but I don’t think they are all bad. And I enjoyed the exercise.
Poem #1
The sun
An instantaneous sparkle of electric
Light
The evening…unusually dull
Engaged in
Silence,
Silence
Declared,
Fixed
To points
Oblivious of surroundings
Poem #2
My life under cover
This moment
We met
Dejected
Drooping exhausted
Always cheerfully
[I]
Remember
Thinking of nothing at all
Poem #3
Surveying a field of battle watching the flames
It was a beautiful evening
The stars were coming out.
To see life.
Magnificently
Greeting
Views of the world
[in]
Passionate
Friendly curiosity