QUOTH EM-MUSING EVERMORE

 This post is part of the monthly blog hop/therapy session known as the Insecure Writers Support Groupfounded by the one and only, Alex J. Cavanaugh. If you're a writer, insecure, or just supportive of writers—insecure or not—please join us. It happens the first Wednesday of each month. It would be sweet of you to visit at least a dozen or so new blogs and leave a comment. Your words will be appreciated. Our Twitter handle is @TheIWSG and hashtag is #IWSG.   

Thanks to our awesome co-hosts for the April 7 posting of the IWSG! PK Hrezo, Pat Garcia, SE White, Lisa Buie Collard,         

                                                     and Diane Burton!

April 7th's question, if you'd like to answer it, is:  Are you a risk-taker when writing? Do you try something radically different in style/POV/etc. or add controversial topics to your work?

Hmm?

Let’s see...

Do I take risks when writing?

Try something radically different?

Use controversial topics?

Yes...

Uh huh...

&

Yup.

I’ve blogged before how stories just come to me...

And sure enough, about a year ago...

Disjointed notions came to me fast and furious...

And I wrote them down...

Not caring about punctuation or spelling.

At first they were quotes...

One-liners...

Two-liners...

Then a paragraph, or a poem... 

Even some flash fiction.  

A while went by... 

And I went back and read what I had written... 

Many were humorous, some poignant, some thought provoking...

While others were…well… adult...  

That smacked my reality in your face... 

And I thought—what has gotten into me?

So, I researched and found this:

Dirty realism is a term coined in 1983 by Bill Buford of Granta magazine to define a new voice in a North American literary movement. Writers of this sub-category of realism use an economy of unadorned language with a disturbing detachment at times verging on comedy, irony, and can often be savage. Dirty Realism is considered a variety of Literary minimalism. 

Charles Bukowski was a master of this

I love writing this kind of stuff...

Especially my quotes...

But I got to tell ya...

It ain’t easy taking the criticism...

When I read my stuff...

And people are expecting something pretty...

And all I give them is dirty...

Realism, that is.

Here are two my softer ones:   

Sadness’ of the past resurrect 

into physical pains dressed up in 

emotional costumes - Leigh Caron

What does it mean when the only time he tells you he loves you is when he’s drunk?

I don’t know either

But I sure as hell am going to give him lots of drinks. 

Often - Leigh Caron                  

So? 

Have you ever taken any risks with your writing?

Do tell.

Always,

Em-Musing