Do you use a smart phone or electronic devices? Most likely, you do. So do I. And I have to admit many times I might be so intently staring into my phone checking emails or whatever that I don’t pay any attention to what’s going on around me. Bet you’ve heard that before, too. Yesterday, I sat through an all day class and found myself looking at my phone on breaks to escape for a few minutes as it was too cold to walk outside on breaks and the breaks were too short anyway.
Fortunately, I did take the time to ignore my phone except to use it as a camera on the country drives I’ve been on the past few days. I wasn’t driving so I could safely use my phone!
There’s so much to see whether you’re driving, walking, etc. But is the view different up close than it is far away?
Of course it is. Up close when I walk in the woods, I see different things in the trees than I do when I’m just glancing at them from a distance. You know that saying! Same thing, when driving along a country road, in my opinions the views are much better from farther away. It all depends on how you see things vs how they really are. How easy it is these days to turn something into what it is or isn’t! I’m currently reading a book about a photographer (fiction) doing exactly that with photo manipulation.
I love to read and often read a variety of books. And, I write in many genres. One I don’t write much of is non-fiction or creative non-fiction. I’d rather fictionalize a story rather than write about a real one unless it has to do with writing poetry because I have written a few books about that subject. It’s good to take time to look around and see what you can see whether you write about it or not. Happy gazing!
How do you look at things? How does it affect your writing?
Some of my pictures in the past week, up close and far away:
