The Act of Writing
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The Act of Writing
And it’s interesting that the writing I tend to think of as “good” is good because it’s mysterious. It tends to happen when I get out of the way—when I let it go a little bit, I surprise myself. I feel most pleased with my language when I don’t understand it completely.
Joe Fassler • Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process
This is what I was missing so far about writing in its most personal and unstructured form: that it is a conduit for the self that exists beyond the fold, where identity is more nebulous. It is the act of externalising thoughts and feelings that might otherwise remain tangled and hidden within the depths of my psyche. It is, to quote Ralph Waldo Em... See more
writing as a conduit
Writing offered a way to live outside the present, skipping over its textures and slowness, converting the present into language, thinking about language rather than being present at all.