In school, teacher always tear books apart.
"Obviously, since they say 'blue curtain' it signifies depression."
I think, "Why does that have to be? Am I a bad writer because I don't write with those thoughts?"
And then I think, "How do they know what is meant? There is no way for them to know what is meant by 'blue curtain'. If I write 'blue curtain' maybe I mean a cage, or a veil or writer's block or simply a 'blue crurtain'."
If I don't even know my own mind how can they know my mind? They can't know everything I mean. I suppose they have some right to say that because they passed college and I didn't but they can't tell me what I meant.
When I was in ninth grade, we had to read a book and write down our thoughts every fifty pages. My teacher gave it back to me saying, "So your book is talking about racism?"
I wanted to tell her, "How do the passages I gave you talk about racism? The author was just trying to write a story with different people in it."
If, because I don't use an excessive amount of metaphors and similes, I'm a bad author or just a wanna-be then I don't want to be an author. I don't want to over-analyze everything. I simply want to get the words whirling around in my head out of my head. I have no deeper meaning aside from that selfish desire.
Sometimes, a 'blue curtain' is just that; a blue curtain.