It's stories that fascinate me, true or false...the biographies and auto-biographies, the stories about people learning and living with love, living through things, conquering.
Everyone has a story, and us lucky ones, live our stories to the fullest so that one day we can remember all that we were, all that we are.
The rest doesn't really matter.
Adjectives and adverbs are used to make a story come more to life, little details do matter. Names and places usually don't. Once there was a beautiful girl that fell hopelessly in love. Does it matter what her name was? When a girl reads that one line, she pictures herself as the beautiful girl falling hopelessly into love. She feel in love underneath an apple tree that had pink, fragrant blossoms slowly falling to the ground around her and her young lover. This spot was theirs...Would it matter if that apple tree lived here or there? Of course not.
Writers tools...making you see what they want you to see. Those are the things that teachers are desperately trying to teach you.
But it takes someone special, a real weaver of words, to make you feel. To make you imagine. And I'm always impressed when it happens.
Sometimes I think you should be one of those teachers because your words to make me feel it... you're amazing :)
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