"Second Person"
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Anything that need rules isn't spontaneous and spontaneity is what is needed to create works that make you think, that forces your mind to express awe, that moves your like no other collection of words.
Aphorism, slang, grammatical abhorrations or twisted purity, nobody can judge the merits of a work using the scales dreamed by those that see the freedom of expression as a sin.

Georg

2/6/2009 2:46:45 AM [ Report Abuse ]

I agree, to write is to create, it may not be to everyones taste but then again it doesn't have to be. I love writing in the first person and totally wrapping the character around me...but that is my style. I also had an English Lit professor once who used to be a stickler that every great book has to have an ulterior motive...not by my way of thinking but when I couldn't find one that he thought was approps he gave me a failing grade...go figure.
lol

Fee

2/5/2009 5:47:50 PM [ Report Abuse ]

Ah, Eileen, you've GOT it!!! Those rules are like saying a poem has to be a sonnet just like Shakespeare wrote, and then you find out that Shakespeare broke the rules of Dante and Petrarch -- who INVENTED the sonnet (and then you find out that the Greeks may have written sonnets before Dante was born). And, right about there, you see that "creative" is a beginning, and the "rules" that afterward are developed, are nothing more than the foolish ideologies of dimwits (who will, of course, debate forever).

Give me a blank sheet of paper and I will draw a picture in words which will make you angry, or make you cry, or make you laugh, and my only rules will be your rage or tears or giggles. So mote it be :-)

2/5/2009 9:29:34 AM [ Report Abuse ]