Comments on Profile Post by aspiringwriter1997

Seldom do I use other's works as inspiration. Naturally, I may be somewhat influenced by what I see and hear, but I do my best to find my own inspiration. Most of my words come from dreams, prayer, contemplation, the ongoing circumstances of my life, interactions with friends & other similar original sources.

I always figured it was better to dig my own well than to dip in someone else's

I'm often inspired by others, mainly as stepping stones to help me find my own influences and words. I often write based on conversations I hear, things I see, or thoughts I dream of, but sometimes, reading a story, hearing a song, seeing a painting also sparks my mind and allows the words to come out freely into my pen and onto the paper.

yup, it happens sometimes, and they can be very profound :) like signs from God especially when I am reading his book or I asked him for an answer to some question and waited for any sign (a leaf falling and kid's smile at me) .. the process itself is wonderful feeling connected to God, Nature and people differently.

but I learned to be careful cuz sometimes they can harmful if not filtered .. rondom quotes are not necessarily wisdom

I agree since some wisdom is harmful toward our souls, but most of it generally benefits the soul. ^^

yup ^^ but how wisdom is harmful toward our souls?

It could be if it teaches a false doctrine or something that goes against what we believe in.

There’s all kinds of wisdom, depending on how you define it. Loosely put, if wisdom is the way we interpret events and condition our responses to navigate then there are a plethora of ‘wisdoms’

For instance, I so wish I never learned the wisdom of easing my soul’s suffering with PMO.

But if you define wisdom as the knowing of the one truest and best response, providing stunning answers to the trickiest problems before us, than such wisdom is bliss.

And that's why you're known as letter since your words just left me all ^^. Wisdom, to me, is knowing the best answers, the purest knowledge, and having the greatest life experience that you can pass onto others. I find that wisdom comes best from theology and philosophy since so many people I know only focus on the theology aspect, but without the philosophical aspects, it is not wisdom at all.

Wisdom is a virtue that must be guarded against wrongdoings since people take virtues and twist them around. We must protect virtues as though they are the scared women who are guiding us toward our own paradise, not our own inferno.

Theology and philosophy...interesting.

I know these things by the cross. The vertical beam represents our relationship with heaven, the horizontal beam our relationship with humanity.

One can not properly practice the faith without these two aspects put in proper order.

Everything you just said above I agree with ^^ I find that the need of wisdom coming from theology and philosophy together extends from the likes of Augustine and Aquinas, who were both theologians and philosophers. If we don't have a relationship with divine wisdom and moral wisdom, we can't concept our beliefs since one aspect of wisdom can't work or function without the other.

Aye, this is such a fundamental thing. As James wrote, “faith without works is dead.”

We must put our beliefs into action, otherwise they may well just be fantasies.

"We must put our beliefs into other, otherwise they may well just be fantasies."

That sentence just essentially captured the spirit and main point of our conversation. I love it when people are able to get everything we talked about down to just one sentence. ^^

Aye, it is something I am working on. While I love to draw out words and ideas, I need to be able to be concise and distill elaborate concepts into a few words.

Most of the writing I’m looking at for freelancing is limited to about 750 words, give or take, so being able to get my points across clearly and effectively in as few words as possible without being oversimplied...

Ehh! It’s a challenge!

That's something I have difficulty in since sometimes, I could write a whole page or so on just the fragrance, appearance, and meaning of a specific flower. I love writing words, but sometimes, I do need to cut my words down to a set few- but this is easier said than done. xP

What do freelance writers often do? What do they write? And how much do they get paid? It's hard to be oversimplified and it's hard to be over-detailed so sometimes, we lose either way.

Indeed, the art of writing is tricky business. What we experience in a moment with our senses can take hours to properly describe even just a little bit of.

It is that which you helped remind me of and inspire me towards anew, that is, the art beyond writing which writers aim their words towards...the ability to encapsulate inexpressible things in vehicles of text and transmit that profound information most sublimely on to the reader.

It is like a feat of miracles, like explaining colours to the blind; the art of writing beyond words to communicate substance that is so often trapped within us, or unleash the substance trapped in others.

It is tricky. Sometimes, I find myself wondering if I do justice with what I write and describe based on the experiences and moments my senses go through, but I know that even with the tricks, it's a part of me that I wouldn't give up to save my life.

Freelance writing is more about knowing business and readership. It’s about making money. Most of the freelancing jobs are for where most people tend to congregate towards, thus earning your clients money through ad revenue or other sources..

So that kind of writing, you have to curtail and formulate to be palatable and easily consumed by the masses. Add in just enough flavour to keep them interested, but not so much that will turn your targeted audience away

Thank you so much! That means a lot to me that I'm able to help remind you and inspire you toward the art of writing beyond just writing. Both of your comments have a sense of Woolf in them when I read them and phrases such as "feat of miracles" "explaining colors to the blind" and "unleash the substance trapped in others" have me going all :D right now.

Yeah, it’s a tough thing to really judge. There’s all kinds of objectives one can accomplish with writing. It’s like...you can be concise, informative, imaginative or impactful. But you can only pick 2, maybe 3...depending on your skill.

The spirit of writing is alive inside your words, so ofc, it’s going to transmit some of what you have over to me :)

I was just listening to Woolf, she had some profound insights :o

Alright. I've been considering starting to make money with my writing on the side, but I have no idea where to start or even begin. Perhaps you can give me a few tips on how to do that.

Aww, that means a lot to me when you say that my words have the spirit of writing. Did you enjoy it? Woolf always has profound insights into what she's writing. She's one of the few writers that I find something new in the meaning and structure of her words every time I re-read her. Her words always have new echoes, memories, and associations every time I re-read something she wrote.

Yeah, I’m going to have another listen to her another day when I’m set for doing some writing. She reminded me of many things I found through my own meditations which have rested peacefully asleep in my heart for many years.

That's good to hear. I actually need to do that sometime since I remember hearing that before I read something and it made me think so much about the words that I was reading- about their own mind and life and the choice of the words themselves.

And what're those things that you've found? I'd like to hear them sometime if you want to share them- unless they're treasures so closely guarded that you don't want to lose them.

(Seriously, I wish NoFap didn't have character limits sometimes)