writing and creativity
by baja · updated 4d ago
writing and creativity
by baja · updated 4d ago
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Why is it that a simple channel change like telling a story about a suffering person helps these people so much? From the process viewpoint the reason is simple. They feel better because they have switched identities. They are no longer identified as sufferers, but have become fair observers, creators, tellers of a story. The earlier suffering was
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It has been claimed, for instance, that the reason there are more poets per capita in Iceland than in any other country of the world is that reciting the sagas became a way for the Icelanders to keep their consciousness ordered in an environment exceedingly hostile to human existence. For centuries the Icelanders have not only preserved in memory b
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If the only point to writing were to transmit information, then it would deserve to become obsolete. But the point of writing is to create information, not simply to pass it along. In the past, educated persons used journals and personal correspondence to put their experiences into words, which allowed them to reflect on what had happened during th
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