Saturday, May 05, 2007
1:32 pm
of writing, inspiration and contradiction.
i find that when writing, the words come faster and flows smoother in the dead of the night.
when the silence is absolute and the only thing i can feel is the familiar crisp sea breeze shifting about with a colour of inky-blue while the words that eluded me in broad daylight return with an articulate insistency.
and although listening to music is fine and all, fast and heavy beats of various rock songs (i'm playing You Give Love A Bad Name by Bon Jovi on loop now) seem to help because slower ones, regardless of their intensity, render me helpless by getting me to sing along either aloud or in my mind, attempting to match the musical passion in the originals'.
typing direction through the laptop saves me the time needed to transfer words from paper to bytes, but somehow, my muse prefers the good old blank notebook pages- or any blank ones, for that matter. strangely, the words refuse to stop when a pen rests in my right hand and receptive pieces of paper lie before me.
my muse works in mysterious ways, i conceded long ago.
sudden inspiration hits me in weird places like the bathroom and with bad timing like when i'm studying for exams less than 24 hours away.
sometimes it comes in short phrases, split second scenarios, sudden images, or unsuspecting questions like "How about..." and "What if this...". when i begin to answer them subconsciously, a story unfolds with branching plots that i can't stop fast enough to get a pen to jot them down before they disappear with a taunting smirk.
i must admit my love for sarcastic contradiction.
cynical irony had somehow made me fall head over heels in love with it.
paradoxical sentences felt so much more intriguing and held such texture and tangibility that draws me into it, forcing me to read the phrase repeatedly until there's nothing more to absorb, daring me to not use such techniques in my own writings.
the intensity and weight of these sort of words seem to possess unimaginable power and charm that i'm sure will appeal to anyone with a love for words, whether reading or writing them.
that being said, it's back to writing.
1400 words more to finish chapter twenty of Aki Kitsune.
Labels: Aki Kitsune, Creations, Fanfictions, Fictions, One-shots, Scribbles