Dec 25, 2020
Capturing Essences: A Writer’s Experience — Chapter Two
Author’s note: This is not a book of essays “just for writers,” but a few thoughts I’d like to offer to all creative spirits wishing to make a difference in helping to lift the energy on this planet and what I feel are some important steps we can all take to bring solutions through creative expression.
CHAPTER TWO
Capturing Essences. What exactly does this mean? In this chapter I want to explore nuance, the difficult part of every relationship. Nuance is the struggle, or the under-appreciated attempt to define equanimity, but either way you look at it nuance is struggling to gain a foothold because we’re composites of yes and no, black and white, right and wrong. The planet is dualistic, although nuanced, but respectfully an either/or kind of place.
Capturing the essence of something, to me, is about building equanimity. It is returning softness to a hardscrabble existence. Let’s face it…not all of us have it that bad, and I’m certainly in a fine position so that my life probably would never be perceived as a struggle, but struggle is how we create, and through struggle, which we define as personal or societal, the presence of needing to overcome something just for the sake of the experience has been what we all do. Struggle wears many different clothes and has many faces.
Creation comes from a series of explosive actions. Creation comes as a result of action. Take a thought, such as writing a novel, and the only way we’re ever going to get that novel started, let alone finished, is to take the action called desire, the action called crafting form, and write it. All creativity is born from taking action.
Capturing the essence of creation is about capturing the truth of oneself, construct or reconstruct it so that you and I become the whole beings I believe we’re capable of, and retuning to that place of essence. Theologians, philosophers, and scientists all reconstruct theories. We all do it. Capturing the essence of something isn’t about right or wrong but about capturing the nuance of all that is.
