I wondered at the wit and cleverness some authors have in voice and dialog today. I’ve said before that I can articulate scintillating colloquy while talking or IM’ing with friends, but never in my writing voice.

And then I realized that’s not entirely true. Occasionally I’m surprised by shorts or some of my alternate writings. It’s mostly just RHUNE that lacks punch and wit. And then it struck me. 

I’m limited by my grasp of their culture and language; nothing I would say in real life fits nicely into RHUNE’s world, or I struggle to interpret wit into the language of their people.

Doesn’t it seem odd that we can become trapped by our own imagination? And yet, all over the world people end their own lives because they can see “no way out”; they become limited by their perceptions and fail to see the broader spectrum; they loose sight of the infinite possibilities in this world and of their own ability to walk away from a bad situation.

It’s actually a natural process of living. We create mental maps of the world; we look at a collection of atoms and call it a person; we look at a collection of cars and call it traffic; it’s as natural and necessary to cognition as breathing.

Yet, when these meta models of reality start to limit our creative thoughts or our choices in life, this is where they fail us. This is where we need to break out of our own skin and see the world from a new lens.

So I will be doing a little remapping with RHUNE—revisiting the culture and people and giving them some new freedom to express and exude their own thoughts and creative expressions outside the bounds of Wulf’s mind set of how people of RHUNE must behave.

Wish me luck.