As the tag-line suggests, the purpose for this blog is to share some of my creative writings. Once upon a time, I used to write a lot, with recent events in my life pushing me back into that direction. Writing often feels like a way to get a feeling out of my head, with the act of putting it into a some structured language enabling me to process that feeling; hence catharsis. But writing is also a creative act: some essential idea comes forth from the ether, travels through my head and out my hand, and something new is formed. From a personal perspective writing is thus a means to process feelings, issues, ideas, etc., and also a creative act. And on occasion, perhaps the product of these efforts also connects to something inside a reader, perhaps makes them feel something from the words they see.

Mainly I write poems, but I’ve been known to write short stories as well. I don’t stick to any particular structure as I tend to experiment with form, style, meter, rhyming… Whatever makes sense in the creative moment. Inspiration comes usually from within my own life, things I see or feel. Most often my writing is done in the free-form way: inspiration gives the reins to imagination and something pops into existence. Rarely I’ll have a specific thing I want to write about and will have put more thought into how I want to express that message.

I believe that every story is up for interpretation, that no matter what the author’s intention might have been, it’s up to the reader to connect to a piece and derive his or her own understanding of what it means. That being said, I plan to put some small explanation with each post about what might have inspired something, what was meant by a certain symbol in a line, what I was feeling when I wrote something, and so on. I’ve actually never done that in the past, but it seems like a good way to open up some insight into what occurs in this head of mine.

Logistically, I’ll be planning to update this 2-3 times a week, perhaps more frequently at times. Some posts might be many verses or even paragraphs, others might be something as brief as a haiku. But they’re all important in their own way.

And now we’re off…