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Cynthia Smith
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I have been writing poetry, prose and short stories since I was 10. Around that age, I could spend whole days without saying a word to anyone in school. The last class of the day -the writing composition class - was the only one I truly liked.
I thought most things people said were just futile and trivial, thus I didn't feel motivated to respond.
When you grow into an adult, you obviously have to become very communicative : there is the necessity to speak to dispute a bill, to do a job interview, even to ask nicely for a cup of coffee. Words become directed to fit in the outer world, and to express concrete things - work, shop, eat, etc. - and eventually they steer us away from our inner selves.
Poetry and fiction restores the symbolic, metaphoric meaning words have to us when we are not adults. It brings us back to that creative stage during childhood - the symbolic stage. I remember what the broken wings of a butterfly called Atiria meant to me when I was nine; and what The protagonists in Virginia Woolf's The Waves mean to me at 40. It is the dimension where words live in the psyche, and are brimmed with anguish and hope, repulsion and desire. That's why I write.
Mrs Woolf's Genres: Existentialism, Surrealism, Stream of Consciousness, Poetic Prose
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