What do you want from your writing?

[Angeline]

I have two benefits to my writing efforts:

First and foremost is the sense of closure I get when I've succesfully articulated my subject. Not only closure, though. It is the feeling of satisfaction at having worked through the problem and arrived at a solution which speaks to me in a solid way. Often (too often), my thoughts and ideas are either half-formed or I am in conflict with them.

Secondly I get a great sense of pride (there's the narcissist showing his golden head again), when I've written clearly and cleverly. Probably due to my less effective way of speaking without thinking and alienating me from everyone by blurting ill-considered shit into their faces.

As pertains to my Online Monniker, Yombotolompi, I visited Madagascar as a boy of sixteen and during one of our visits around he country we stopped for gas and lunch in a village named Yombotolompi. The sign was wonderful - being so long! And I absolutely LOVE to say Yombotolompi. It is a terrific exersize for the lips and tongue and it sounds cool, too. I answer to Yombo, though, to simplify and save our fingers the trouble of such a long name.

Thanks for the welcome. I am very excited about the prospect of having some friends to talk to in matters of a literate nature. The place I live has more than its share of illiterate people to whom poetry is as accessable as opera is to most of us.

Until next we text,

Yombo

Welcome and happy writing. I think your name is cool.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

I can never look at that name in quite the same way again ...... personally I blame Chippy

 

[butters]

I can never look at that name in quite the same way again ...... personally I blame Chippy

eveyone blames chippy - le sigh

 

[UnderYourSpell]

eveyone blames chippy - le sigh

You're fried .........

 

[butters]

You're fried .........

 

[NeonSubtlety]

I think that when I write, I'm trying to preserve an exact feeling. I have this weird, analytical mind that examines emotion like it does color. Every emotion has the remnants of a few "primary emotions" in it. And recreating that emotion is a matter of scaling everything perfectly.

I want to be able to reread something I've written and remember exactly how I felt when the inspiration first hit me. And, ideally, I want others to feel it exactly as I had intended it as well.