Writing that touches home, that stirs the heart and creates memorable, clearly experienced moments, is writing based on truth. This doesn’t mean that one must live a bohemian lifestyle, break the law or rebel against cultural mores in a quest for truth. People that rebel, especially famous accomplished people, are often merely self-indulgent rather than truthful, growing selfish, hard and mean instead of enlightened. (And, isn’t personal growth our most important truth?) Writing from truth means that you must be in tune with what you believe, that your heart and the ideas that live there must be known to you, intimately.
This is the character behind your writing, the very real spiritual blood with which you mark the page. If your stories are rooted in a desire for money, fame, popularity or sophistication, they won’t ring true. Only when you know your truth, in all its tarnished beauty, can you write the truth.
Children speak truth with an ease that adults often find embarrassing. That's because they are genuine, with no hidden agendas. Basing your stories on truth can inspire great writing. Your personal connection with truth may take time to develop and a willingness to examine not only what others expect of you, but your own hidden motives. Once you touch base with these truths, your stories will sound intuitive, sympathetic and real. In other words, they will attain greatness.
One Irish proverb says, “Seeing is believing, but feeling is God’s own truth.” Write from divine truth and your readers will feel deeply and remember the truth you portrayed for a lifetime.
Wow, that was very profound and well expressed. I think you hit the nail on the head, so to speak. Thank you very much for that.
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