So I’ve Been Thinking...

Hello, my fellow advocates! Ive been creating new works lately and they have gotten me thinking about the bigger picture. How are things created? Why are they created? What does everything stem from? These questions are vague, but they beg people to question how far they reach and if they stop reaching at all. Composing, to me, is an umbrella term. Composing is an emotional process of creating. You can compose music, novels, pamphlets, poems, jingles, and even essays. Composing requires the author to consider the world around them, see what is missing or what can be added, and use that exigency to drive them to creating something new. Composing requires genre, exigency, and audience. What parameters and assumptions are you or want to work with? What is your call to action? Do you have or even need one? Of course these parameters and calls to action all depend on who is receiving this work- the audience. It is a cyclical checklist that every author must question. Writing and editing fall under the composing umbrella because writing is required for composition. Any good composition also relies on editing for clarity and professionalism. Once we answers these questions, our work and ourselves will be all the better.