art
Choosing to walk
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notes from article:
“is writing a product, or an art?”
“when you choose to walk, you choose not to pursue immediate gratification or even comfort but simply to expand the number of things that might happen to you”
ai attempts to seperate the mythology of writing from the work of writing, as though the quotidian labour of expression is something that keeps you from your ideas rather than the exact process by which you discover them.
my thoughts:
what do we separate ourselves from when we use AI to write for us? we eliminate the process, which is how we uncover our voice, perfect our practice, and develop ourselves. ai promises to take care of the “boring” or “tedious” parts, but those parts are integral to our development. this ties into a video i watched by anna howard on how convenince culture is stealing our creativity. when we fail to “walk” and instead take the quickest/easiest method to traveling, we often miss out on all the things that could’ve happened to us.
i like how this author uses walking as a catalyst to get this message across. walking is boring, often mind numbing, and is hardly the quickest way to get somewhere- but by walking we increase the number of things that could happen to us. its the same with writing- by reworking a paragraph a dozen times i learn, i become.
Writing a poem is not so very different from digging a hole. It is work. You try to learn what you can from other holes and the people who dug before you. The difficulty comes from people who do not dig or spend time in holes thinking that the holes ought not to be so wet, or dark, or full of worms. “Why is your hole not lined with light?” Sir, it
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