Writing of Pictures & Pictures of Writing

I’ve come to the realization I am not really a writer.  I just take pictures.

Words are almost too abstract a concept for me.  My mind forms the image that leads to the words or, more often than not, the words begin with a picture.  

It is like a cheat code because I am only a writer because I take pictures.

The pictures jump start the words.  More rarely the image starts in my mind’s eye, but even then when the writing is done something inside me cries out for something visual to accompany it.  In these cases I must make the picture after the fact.  It’s like I have to reverse engineer the normal process.

And sometimes the picture itself is enough.  It tells a story and words do not add to it.  These are the times it feels like it is compelling enough I must try to write about it, but as I type out the ideas they keep falling flat until I realize the picture is complete in and of itself.  These are the best pictures.

Thankfully those types of pictures are not common.  If they were I would likely not write at all.  And I like to write.