Fireworks
Posted on | July 3, 2010 | No Comments
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My writing partner Steve’s favorite two holidays aren’t Christmas or Thanksgiving, they’re Hollowe’en and 4th of July. Both offer an element of mischief (good, clean, fun, American mischief, of course) and both offer some wonderful spectacle.
4th of July in the United States is a time of celebrating our independence, (it was from England, for those not keeping track) but it is also a time of community. We get together in parks, on beaches, in high school athletic yards, to sit on blankets, eat bar-b-que, drink beer and, most importantly and to the point, watch fireworks, those colorful, loud displays of concussive excitement that explode exuberantly over our heads.
There is something amazing in the wonderful, bright displays. Even a simple, less elaborate show is wonderful to behold. One with some money and brilliant creative minds behind it can be breathtaking, inspiring, quite literally earth-shaking.
So why am I writing about our annual celebration of fire on a creative writing blog? Because I truly believe that creativity in any form can be just as breathtaking, inspiring and earth-shaking, in almost as literal a way, as a 4th of July show. When you paint with all your heart and soul and a viewer stands in front of your painting, surrounded by other gallery-goers and other works of art, and is held speechless by your creation, you have created your own fireworks display.
When you write with the inspiration of your entire subconscious or “other-than-conscious” life and a reader falls into your world, only waking back up to reality when the supper burns on the stove, you have created a colorful, loud display of concussive excitement that exploded exuberantly inside their head.
Bring your 4th of July to the rest of your year. Create fireworks where ever and when ever you can. Be loud and colorful. Be excited.
And on this 4th of July weekend, enjoy the fireworks, both real and figurative.
Geoff Hoff~
Co-presenter of the creative writing course On Writing a Short Story.
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