In my opinion, the best part of what we discussed in class last week was when we got on the slight tangent about emotion vs. truth. In a way, our reality is just pieces of emotions layered on top of each other. It isn't the detail that you remember, it's the emotion. The most important job creatives have is to get their audience to feel emotion. Without emotion, their work is meaningless. They're just authors with invisible words. Painters with blank canvasses. Musicians with silent sounds.
However, there is a line between creating emotion and stretching the truth. There is truth in the fact that people are comforted by hearing what they want to hear, but there's also comfort in wanting to hear the truth. Being able to ascertain the reality of a situation (when it comes to human interaction) is more important than fabrication of an event to reveal emotion. But in most ways, the reality of the event is the emotion. As Mr. Allen said, think of a movie theater. It's just arranged light, but it has the ability to contort the emotions of every viewer. So how can you combine emotional truth and factual truth?
That's where arrangement comes into play. It's the backbone of emotion; all artists play with it. For writing in particular, language becomes. Think of a piece of writing that speaks to you-- the way the words are able to ebb and flow and intertwine with one another. If you rearrange the words, craft them into something meaningful, the emotion is rich and has the ability to progress beyond the text. Thus, words have the ability to emulate both the fact and the emotion. And that is the most meaningful out of all.
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