To tell a story

To tell a story means different things to different people. stories can create an image for a doctor through medical reports or help a small child fall asleep with thoughts of candid adventures of some magical hero or quirky cartoon animal. Stories can invoke fear or sadness, happiness or want. Each of us tells stories in different ways and for different reasons and for me writing stories is about painting pictures. I have always wanted to be able to draw or paint and found that with words I can do just that but in peoples minds. That means that each person will see my mental illustrations in a different way so my image is never fixed as it would be if it were a picture on a canvas. For example think of saying this statement. "Her hair is blonde" OR "Her hair looks like the golden strands of an orb weavers web" I think that the latter sounds cooler. I mean we can't always speak like that but adding color to otherwise drab every day statements makes writing and listening more fun. Basically what i'm saying is that the use of imagery is forever important in writing no matter what the purpose of that writing is. Draw in your readers at work or as a scholar by adding vivid pictures in the minds of your readers while at the same time stimulating an often unused tool in the modern age..Imagination.

On a starry winter night in Portugal

Where the ocean kissed the southern shore

There a dream I never thought would come to pass

Came and went like time spent through an hourglass

-Teena Marie, “Portuguese Love”