Word Scrambling

What do you enjoy most about writing?

I love playing with words. You can be as overt and obvious as you like, mix things up, change, create laughter, or sometimes deliberately mislead and wait to see what happens. How others see it.

Take this very simple prose poem. That tiny last line. Completely obvious. And yet…it’s not. There are three possible meanings to that line. Which will you feel?

The authors I love the most are the ones that tell you the truth every step of the way, and when they reveal the mystery you’ve been puzzling over, you realise you already knew it.

Or Harlan Coben and David Baldacci, don’t trust them until the last full stop. Lisa Jewell is another one for that.

I love all good writing, I don’t let the Oxford comma ruin a book. Should it be there? Should it not? I’m not letting the flick of a pen destroy 60,000 words for me. Dump me back into the present time and space when I was blissfully elsewhere. Somewhere warmer or cooler.

Grammar Nazis are poor readers 🤣.

What I love the most

Whether writing or reading, is the opportunity to rewrite the world, to create a new one, to explore, to fight back whilst doing no harm.

People say that thriller writing incites violence, it should put you off violence. It’s how you read those words that dictates the outcome.

With poetry, where I started, I love the opportunity to make sense of the world by seeing what falls onto the paper. It allows me to explore my mood, my attitude, life, the universe, and everything.

It allowed me to make sense of and heal my past. Some of those poems were destroyed.

It allows me to play with life.

If you want to read everything you need to know about life in a few verses, read the ‘multiple choice’ poem The Caves of Ismaron.

That was definitely channeled, and is just the most extraordinary thing that’s ever popped in from the ether. But if it talks to you, you’ll never forget the message.

The first two lines appeared in 1996. The rest in 2000. The follow up poem ‘Is’ in 2015, and the third (so far) ‘I’, in 2016. That was when I thought to look up the word ‘Maron’.

There are many meanings, but one I found years ago said it was a Caribbean Diablesse, a mischief maker. They are definitely being mischievous in that poem.

Oddly I’ve found Google search to be rubbish lately, and where it used to pop up immediately, it doesn’t. Annoying. But if memory serves you’ll find it in the story about that poem.

It all fits.

So what do I like most about writing?

The endless possibilities.

And I very much enjoy many of the possibilities I read from the other incredible writers on WordPress. Thank you.

It may also interest you to know, if, like me, you didn’t that prior to the Big Bang, our universe was a trillionth the size of a typed full stop. One trillion, trillion, trillionth of a second later it was this size and continues to expand.

One full stop! You’ll never look at it the same way again.

That’s writing for you.

Super Sunday

Deb xx

I love words 💖