A New Experience: Writing for Triond

I have to admit to being scared about putting pen to paper and fingers to keyboard for a whole new writing community.  Will everybody hiss and boo?  Will I bore the pants of seasoned Triond writers?  Or, heaven forbid, will nobody react in any way whatsoever?  There, I have confessed my fears, so will now try to write.

You see, there is something utterly compelling about snatching thoughts and images from the mind and turning them into words on paper.  I know many people have the gift of capturing and placing their mental creativity straight onto the screen.  Sadly, I am not one of them, which is why my creative process needs a good old ballpoint pen and some scraps of paper.  It is also why I have a strangely bent index finger on my right hand, writing hand. That is a clue as to how long I have been writing.  Forever, it seems.

Words are my friends; I adore their complexity,  their ability to turn ideas into reality.  They are the building blocks of writing, the stalwarts of the creative process.  When they behave themselves,  that is.  A writer will always search for just the right and proper words to give life to their creation and to reach others.

Just think about the word “green” and all the images it conjures.  Are you picturing trees, grass, eyes, glass, Eco-warriors or envy?  When writing, that little word can do so much because of its powerful connotations.  But then, all words have great power for the writer.

The words must, of course, be organized into sentences in order to continue to create a good piece of writing.  Those sentences need punctuation, grammar, capitalization and good spelling to reach their full potential and make the writing live.  If I wrote: 

“She looked nice cos shed wore a green dress what make her eyes shinn,”

the reader would get the essence of the thought, but who could blame them if they gave up reading because of the poor quality of that sentence?  To put it right, how about a little care.

“She looked nice, because she had worn a green dress that seemed to make her eyes shine.”

But you better make sure you have those sentences well organized into paragraphs, or your creative writing will be tossed on the scrap heap.  The reader has to know who “she” is and why her dress and eyes are significant enough to write about.  Yes, and those paragraphs must build your writing into a coherent whole, a story, an article, a commentary, a report that grips the reader and makes them want to stay with you till the very end.

That is what I hope this, my first piece of Triond writing has managed to do.  Being so new, I am not sure how feedback or responses work, but I would be grateful to hear what you all think.  Thank you so much for reading, if I may presume somebody did.  Must try harder next time.