Ideally, my writing is a search to be truer in word and life. Compose an honest sentence and it sings off the page, filling life with music where once there was only dead experience. When time slips away, deep in imagination, describing a world and characters moving through a story, I feel happier about living. When I experience what characters are feeling, see what they see, think what they think, overcome what they overcome, a deep satisfaction ensues. I experience a kinship with the characters and their world and, if the story is worthy, I might be inspired to ask how to be a better person because the characters show me how I want or don’t want to be.
As Perceval wandered in search of the Holy Grail, he asked what ailed the king. “I’m thirsty,” the king said. Perceval gave the king water to drink and the king and the kingdom healed. As I wander through a good story, curious and awake, questions are raised, and the answers that follow, restores not only myself, but life around me. As the poet, William Blake said, “the eye altering, alters all.”
“…honest originality of subject, style, dialogue, and humour…a stunning submission!”
(“The Accidental Light,” short story)
– Strider Marcus Jones, Editor, Lothlorien Poetry Journal
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