Squeezing Out Sparks

Introduction

The song "You Can't Be Too Strong" from Graham Parker's "Squeezing Out Sparks" gave the album it's titel and appears in the song like this:

Yeah babe I know that it gets dark, down by luna park

But everybody else, is squeezing out a spark

That happened in the heat, somewhere in the dark, in the dark

I thought this was a wonderful analogy for the way we create our Vocal Stories.

Here Is Why I Think This

When we create our stories we start with something that prompts us, it could be a picture, a word, a challenge, an event, absolutely everything. Sometimes we just know where we are going to start, sometimes we may know where we are going (that is how our story will end) but not how we are going to get there.

Writing a story everything from a haiku to a sag is a journey. I will always remember that Neil Diamond said that he took eight weeks to finalize the phrase "I Am...I Said" from his song, so even the shortest article or story may still require a great deal of work on our part.

I love Tolkien's song from Lord of the Rings:

The Road goes ever on and on,

Down from the door where it began.

Now far ahead the Road has gone,

And I must follow if I can

Which encompasses our journey when we create our tales, stories and poetry.

We start with the smallest idea or prompt, and then we use our mind and imagination to squeeze out the sparks from it to illuminate our creation and eventually light the fire that will become our completed story.

Conclusion

Thank you so much for reading and hope to have enjoyed my odeas and maybe you will get one or two yourself from this.