A Writer's Prerogative...

by Maria Isabel Cecilia Pascual
(Philippines)

Being a writer gives us the freedom to create any story that we think is worth telling. We create our own world, we view things in a different light and different angle. We write and words based on what's in our mind and whatever our hearts had dictated at that moment.


Emotion plays an integral part of being creative, it adds certain shades of color in what we write, even the process of creating music or capturing an object on a canvas with oil paints or other medium. For without emotion, a piece of music is worthless. It's like listening to a monotonous melody; no rhythm, no character nor dynamics whatsoever, so with writing. Writing translate our emotions, thinking and dreams through all our five senses; sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.


I would like to elaborate further, but more often a shorter version's enough to make a mark on someone else's consciousness.