Creative writing
is headlights on a dark road
is a way into the forest
is a way out
is a mountain we can only ever see part of
is a mirror
is a hammer to shape reality
is how we see what we think
is both/and
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Jacobsen Writing 
One writer said that in his charactet creation (paraphrase), “It is all I can do to keep up with him, and record all he says and does.”
Writing is empathy
Writing is letting slip the dogs of war
Writing is declaring yourself worthy of record
I like the empathy idea, especially in regards to nonfiction characters. Empathy goes a long way to make writing “work” for the reader.
Sorry for the misspell..character, not charactet….
Although lately I seem to communicate with you around allusions to alcohol, I would add to the list that writing is a “distillation of reality.” Like good scotch, a final product that is only a small fraction–fashioned and coerced by the labors of the “creative”– of a larger grain universe, writing makes no pretense to the whole. Hopefully, writing’s particular beauty forces (coerces, leads, entices, haunts) the reader to see the larger reality.
I like it. Now we can start linking specific genres of writing to specific types of alcohol…
writing is:
spring
my insides out
my spirit dancing
a soul’s expression
touching
a tickle inside
a brain sneeze
“Brain sneeze” is officially the best way ever to describe the drafting process.
So weird, I was thinking about metaphors like this just yesterday. I think about half of them were metaphors you came up with.
What were the other half?