the art of writing

CREATIVE WRITING

A Diatribe of Sorts, of a Kind, and of an Ilk

By Izzy Ess of Grand Vitesse

The grammar, syntax, spelling and construction

Rules for writing are irrelevant

To what is really The Creative Writing

Muse.  Sir Henry Miller and the Lady

Erica of Jongg and many others,

Not excluding God and Moses who

Created Pentateuch, with five whole great Books

Without vowels, but with distinctive musical

Notation, paid no great attention

To what teachers generally teach

About Creative Writing.  Le Marquis

De Sade wrote all his brilliant stuff on bits

Of paper he sequestered from the guards

At Clarendon, a Psychiatric Institution

In a suburb of the famous

Paris, France, where revolutionary

Forces changed the World, July the Fourteenth,

In the year of 17 and 89.

Creative cooking has no recipes;

So like creative writing, there

Are no fixed templates that restrict a cook

From adding and subtracting those ingredients

Which strike his fancy, tempt his Cooker’s

Muse and fancy all his tickles, eh?

A dictionary is no place to get

The good stuff that makes up a composition.

A creative writer, like a Willie

Shakespeare, who created his own dictionary,

Where he makes up words and phrases

That befit exactly what he wants

To most express.  He fits the words and phrases

Into patterns which have not been heretofore

Described.  He thus creates a special

Language with created words and phraseologies

Which could express emotion

And portent, still meaningful today,

Some four whole centuries, ago.  Most modern

Teachers would have dressed him down for his

Great Creativity.  So luckily,

These teachers weren’t the editors of his

Port Folios.  The programme, Word, by Microsoft,

Has built-in rigid rules of spelling, grammar,

Syntax and its sentence structure.  It

Is hard to write an ode without continually

Re-correcting Microsoft’s

Huge myriad of confident corrections.

So, I doubt that there are programmes for

Computers that allow creative writing,

If the authors are quite lyrical

And rhythmic in their writing, like the writers

Of the Pentateuch, and like Will Shakespeare,

Or whoever wrote the Bible, Psalms

And Songs and Plays and Sonnettes.  If it weren’t

For special features like ability

To change the font, at will, a writing everything

By hand or with a typewriter

Which doesn’t self-correct, is much preferable.

Suffice to say, creative means

Creative, which engenders Creativity

By any other name, when not

Restricted by some arbitrary lists

And sets of rules and regulations.  So,

It’s obvious to me.  Are whits and bits

As obvious to all, my dear sharp wits?

THE END

© izzy sommers, md

Welland, Canada

September 19, 2013