Tuesday, February 16, 2010
The Blackout
The past couple of days I haven't watched or read the news and I must write that it didn't really affect me much as far as being anxious but it did make me ignorant to what was going on in the world for the past couple of days. I am usually not really news hungry anyways although I do read or watch the news regularly, it's just not a 24/7 thing for me, so I suppose missing a couple of days didn't do me any harm.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Pop songs and Comic books
Why do I write ? Wow, that question has never crossed my mind until my professor proposed the question last week to the class but I guess I should explain to my audience and myself why. I feel that I'm losing my love for writing and maybe through this blog post I might reinstate my love for writing again . To tell you the truth, I write (although I must admit I sometimes write very badly) because I need to document my thoughts, feelings, viewpoints, and ideas on sheets of paper. I need to write because If I don't, all my forms of expression will fly away from my head like wandering birds and if I don't catch them and cage them, then I fear that my birds will fly away from me forever. I also tend to write because I am a very shy and reserved person. My family and close friends now the real me but most people think I am this very innocent and simple person( or perhaps thats how I feel that most people percieve me), which is not the case indeed, I am not very innocent and I am just as complex as any other person.
I suppose my love for writing came at a very young age, particulary in my late toddler years. I know this because, not that long ago, I had a chance to talk to my elementary school teacher one night at a party that we happend to attend together. After exchanging hellos, she told me that I wrote a poem about her when I was a child in her class but I could not remember a thing about it . I suppose it was an endearing memory to her to see that a kid wrote a poem, perhaps a nersery rhyme poem, to her to gain her affection. Another exemple would be that as a young kid, I was trying to write a comic book story about a duo of brothers who were superhereos, I would be writing the storylines and creating the concepts, while my twin brother would illustrate the pictures. Perhaps maybe this year we can begin the story/epic.
I've always tried to write all sorts of styles and formats, for example, I remember trying to write a moviescript for my acting class,I've written and published a haiku for a college magazine (Miami Dade College's Miambiance), and I've writting all kinds of essays and short stories for various subjects for countless creative writing classes. I believe though, that my greatest love or the one form that comes natural to me is the form of songwriting. So far I have written up to two hundred songs about almost anything I can think of: love at first sight, finding love and being in love, love gone bad, heartbreak, politics(the way I see it), being sad, being happy, being lukewarm, relationships of all kinds, being on your own, etc. I've written anthems to try to brighten my world around me and I've writting ballads to reflect or cherish certain memories or people in my life. I write songs because it is the simplist and most effective way for me to express all that I mentioned in the first paragraph while also putting in the songs three to four guitar chords to make it dance.
Their's a saying that goes that all you need to write a song is three chords and the truth. I believe in that saying wholeheartedly, I write because I need to express my truth in whatever I am writing. Wrtiting is my outlet, an expressway to my mind, a tool that I use that in its noble essence, helps me commincate fully to the people around me, whether it be through a pop song or a comic book.
I suppose my love for writing came at a very young age, particulary in my late toddler years. I know this because, not that long ago, I had a chance to talk to my elementary school teacher one night at a party that we happend to attend together. After exchanging hellos, she told me that I wrote a poem about her when I was a child in her class but I could not remember a thing about it . I suppose it was an endearing memory to her to see that a kid wrote a poem, perhaps a nersery rhyme poem, to her to gain her affection. Another exemple would be that as a young kid, I was trying to write a comic book story about a duo of brothers who were superhereos, I would be writing the storylines and creating the concepts, while my twin brother would illustrate the pictures. Perhaps maybe this year we can begin the story/epic.
I've always tried to write all sorts of styles and formats, for example, I remember trying to write a moviescript for my acting class,I've written and published a haiku for a college magazine (Miami Dade College's Miambiance), and I've writting all kinds of essays and short stories for various subjects for countless creative writing classes. I believe though, that my greatest love or the one form that comes natural to me is the form of songwriting. So far I have written up to two hundred songs about almost anything I can think of: love at first sight, finding love and being in love, love gone bad, heartbreak, politics(the way I see it), being sad, being happy, being lukewarm, relationships of all kinds, being on your own, etc. I've written anthems to try to brighten my world around me and I've writting ballads to reflect or cherish certain memories or people in my life. I write songs because it is the simplist and most effective way for me to express all that I mentioned in the first paragraph while also putting in the songs three to four guitar chords to make it dance.
Their's a saying that goes that all you need to write a song is three chords and the truth. I believe in that saying wholeheartedly, I write because I need to express my truth in whatever I am writing. Wrtiting is my outlet, an expressway to my mind, a tool that I use that in its noble essence, helps me commincate fully to the people around me, whether it be through a pop song or a comic book.
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