Wednesday, April 7, 2021

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  


6 comments:

John Winkelman said...

Good stuff! I think my favorite Bukowski quote is "Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

That last one is funny! I've never heard of dirty realism.

Ellen Jacobson said...

I hadn't heard of dirty realism before. Fascinating! The second Leigh Caron one cracked me up :)

Rachna Chhabria said...

I too like to write the first draft super fast!

L. Diane Wolfe said...

I've never heard of that genre.

I've read your stuff. You are a risk-taker!

Carol Kilgore said...

I love your writing here! I have not heard of Dirty Realism, but this type of writing would fit just fine in a hardboiled or noir mystery. Keep it up!