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RE: Day 654: 5 Minute Freewrite: Monday - Prompt: key - My poetic attempt
Are you assuming writing comes from memory? My most pleasurable moments in writing are the ones that come from nowhere, like a delightful break from reality. It is true that I write from real events at times, but I usually feel despair after that. Writing is my yoga.
No, I try not to assume anything. I have no idea where creativity comes from. Prompts can trigger memories however, and then we can take those memories and stretch them and bend them and make them what we want, or let the auto writer in us take over.
People think that hindsight is 20/20 vision, it's not. Most memories are not that clear, you can remember the smell or the color of the rose, but what color socks did you have on, what cologne did your partner have, were they wearing a long sleeved shirt or short sleeved? Did you have a dress or pants on? No memory is 20/20.