ODE TO PENCILS
Oh, pencil, how you glide across a page so effortlessly, like a leaf dancing on still water sending a chorus of ripples across the glassy reflective surface.
Yet still you can strike the page with the ferocity of a sweaty, bloodthirsty warrior charging into battle on horseback.
Clouded minds become clouded papers, and clouded papers become great ideas.
In a world where no one is heard, you’re always willing to listen and to celebrate, and to help communicate.
Submissive paper holds indentations even after your markings are erased, leaving behind a permanent reminder of your presence.
You allow me to express my crazy, unrealistic ideas.
Without you,
I’d be a lost, frazzled mess of semi-human.
Macaleigh Hendricks …show more content…
In all other forms of writing, the use of imagery is not the main component. Although it is always nice to have, it is by no means a requirement or an expectation. Creative writing, however, demands vivid imagery to keep readers engaged and guessing. A creative writer should never explain that someone is bleeding, but rather they should describe the look of the blood glittering in the moonlight flowing from an open gash. As E.L. Doctrow once said, “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensations in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feel of being rained upon.” Creative writers find a way to lace their work with vivid description and leave the reader to interpret deeper meaning. An excellent example of this is Ann Daum’s “Calving Heifers in a March Blizzard”. One image that really stuck with me was, “Finally feel the snot-slick ball of forehead tucked deep between his knees. I slide my palm down the curve of his nose, insert two fingers into his spongy mouth.” Ann could have simply said, “I found its head. I stuck my fingers in its mouth,” but instead, she used vivid description such as, “snot-slick,” and, “spongy mouth.” The essence of creative writing is an exemplary use of vivid imagery, without which it would blend in blanky with expository and persuasive
Oh, pencil, how you glide across a page so effortlessly, like a leaf dancing on still water sending a chorus of ripples across the glassy reflective surface.
Yet still you can strike the page with the ferocity of a sweaty, bloodthirsty warrior charging into battle on horseback.
Clouded minds become clouded papers, and clouded papers become great ideas.
In a world where no one is heard, you’re always willing to listen and to celebrate, and to help communicate.
Submissive paper holds indentations even after your markings are erased, leaving behind a permanent reminder of your presence.
You allow me to express my crazy, unrealistic ideas.
Without you,
I’d be a lost, frazzled mess of semi-human.
Macaleigh Hendricks …show more content…
In all other forms of writing, the use of imagery is not the main component. Although it is always nice to have, it is by no means a requirement or an expectation. Creative writing, however, demands vivid imagery to keep readers engaged and guessing. A creative writer should never explain that someone is bleeding, but rather they should describe the look of the blood glittering in the moonlight flowing from an open gash. As E.L. Doctrow once said, “Good writing is supposed to evoke sensations in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feel of being rained upon.” Creative writers find a way to lace their work with vivid description and leave the reader to interpret deeper meaning. An excellent example of this is Ann Daum’s “Calving Heifers in a March Blizzard”. One image that really stuck with me was, “Finally feel the snot-slick ball of forehead tucked deep between his knees. I slide my palm down the curve of his nose, insert two fingers into his spongy mouth.” Ann could have simply said, “I found its head. I stuck my fingers in its mouth,” but instead, she used vivid description such as, “snot-slick,” and, “spongy mouth.” The essence of creative writing is an exemplary use of vivid imagery, without which it would blend in blanky with expository and persuasive