Voice|ILLUMINATION|Writing
Your Voice in ILLUMINATION
How to find and use it
You found ILLUMINATION. Now what?
You write. But toward what end? Is there a prize awaiting you after all these words are spilled?
There has been for me and for others. Simple things.
Practice. Appreciation. Commitment. Guidance. A sense of community.
Write hard and clear about what hurts. Ernest Hemmingway
Why Write?
Because at the other side of it, is you, waiting to say thank you for the journey. For the chance to be revealed.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. Maya Angelou
The more you write the more intimate you become with your tools. The more fluent the language used to convey thoughts that have been hiding unnoticed inside you for years and can now witness the satisfaction of being fully expressed.
The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice. Your mind. Your story. Your vision. So, write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. Neil Gaiman
What you must do
Be authentic. Be fearless and adventurous. Let the words direct the feelings that you would like to share with others. Let the words form ideas that are ready to be revealed — to help others — to change some small piece of this world. Be yourself.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where before there were only walls. Joseph Campbell
Direct your words like arrows — at the heart of love or injustice or the elimination of one person’s fears. There is much out there in need of change and much more that needs validation. A writer’s sharp-edged stamp of recognition goes a long way to getting more of that taking place.
The Truth
There seems to be as many definitions of this word as there are people uttering it. For ILLUMINATION we just want the words to be your words, to be your best current effort and for you to be as enthusiastic as possible in having the readers read them. Enthusiasm is contagious — and this is one thing we wish everyone would catch.
One voice can change a room. Barack Obama
We place few restrictions on the writers. But there still are rules to follow. Look over the Publication and you’ll find many of them highlighted for new writers and old.
Three things cannot be long hidden: The Moon, The Sun and The Truth. Buddha
Have fun with what you write. Target the unjust and the righteous. Focus on truth and the elimination of lies as you see fit. Talk about cookies or pizza or health or self; the climbing of Mt. Everest or plumbing the depths of the Marianas Trench.
Facts do not cease to exist, just because they are ignored. Aldous Huxley
Our End Game
ILLUMINATION grows with new writers and readers. It grows with new ideas and old ones retooled and re-imagined. It grows when discussing the truth, exposing the lies, changing a perspective or introducing a completely new one.
Have fun being creative and when you can help others have fun and grow as well.
Whoever is careless with truth in small matters, cannot be trusted in important affairs. Albert Einstein
There are many subjects to write about. Write about one or all of them. Engage. Interact. Comment. Be a part of the community. The greater its strength the greater yours, in reaching out to others who want to know what you know.
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehoods so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Blaise Pascal
Good writing!
Joe Luca is writer and editor for ILLUMINATION and a published author and writer of children’s stories, short fiction, non-fiction articles, screenplays and poetry. Publications include Child’s Life, Children’s Playmate and others. There are some other articles below — have a read. And thank you for stopping by.
