life poetic *edit: love me!*

Sometimes when I’m bored, I’ll click on random diary names to read random diaries. Sometimes (not often) I use the ‘random entry’ feature to do this. More often than not though, I’ll be reading one of my favorite diaries, and I’ll see a note left to them by someone. The note will usually begin with “ryn.” RYN, for those of you that may not know, stands for “regarding your note” or “reply to your note.” If someone leaves a note beginning with those three letters, then it means that the person who wrote the diary I’m reading, left the noter a note at some point in the past. If I’m bored enough, and the note sounds interesting enough, I’ll click the name of the noter to go read their diary.

Just yesterday I did this. I’m not certain if it would be in good or poor taste to name the diarist that I found, so I won’t. But this girl is a simply amazing writer. Her imagery is so vivid, and at the same time has a sense of surreality to it. The words just seem to flow–its so poetic. Even her description of a scene where she was putting on makeup, while her sister hovered in the doorway, smoking a cigarette was just… wow… It left me almost breathless with her obvious natural talent for writing. I couldn’t help but want to read more, but at the same time I felt a twinge. What was that?? Oh. Jealousy.

The whole time I was reading her diary, even while I admired and marvelled at her talents, I couldn’t help but think to myself, ‘Why can’t I write like that?’ I began to take note of the way she described things, the way she presented dialogue, so I might perhaps learn from her style. It occurred to me last night that what I really was trying to do was copycat her style. And that’s just not me. Maybe my words don’t flow. Maybe I can only be poetic under emotionally trying times. Maybe. And anyway, what kind of artistic integrity could I claim to have if i knowingly copycatted another writer’s style?

Rhetorical question.

Where was I going with this? I can’t recall.

*edit*
Here’s the deal.. toss a comment on MY notes starting with this statement..

“I love the way you…”

Then repost this and see what people love about you!!!!