Lest anyone read my posts (especially those made recently, especially yesterday) and misunderstand what is "going on with me," I wanted to make a very important disclaimer about my writings stored here on "A Happy Psalm or Two."
For all of my life, I have written as a means of relieving stress, frustration, and creative energy. I often feel a NEED to write pieces which incorporate not only my own stories, but the stories of others I know--including things I've read in news headlines and articles inter/nationally and on social media posts.
I have a NEED to write poetry and prose that matters, poetry and prose with which people can relate, poetry and prose that gives someone solace knowing they are not alone in life.
My inspiration comes from everywhere, and just because a post seems like I may be talking about my own life experience, it doesn't mean that I am. I often use real-life as a starting context and then allow my imagination to fill in the rest. As one learns when studying literature, the author's voice is not necessarily the narrator's. The same is true of my narrators. Most, I would think,are, in fact, me; others are not. At other times, too, much of what I write is a blend of fact and fiction, or FACTION, as some refer to it.
Many of my posts, if not most of them, ARE about my own life, no fiction included. But others? Perhaps inspired by real life--but not necessarily my own.
The challenge with my writing is that it is not always obvious which is fact and which is fiction. It is up to the reader to make those suppositions.
I cannot say. :)
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