Thursday, March 15, 2012
Eating kumkwats and finding a way to habituate my brain toward a forward meandering sentences without pre-forming them conclusively, or tidying up all of the bows prior to creation. It is a dichotomy I tell myself, that exists, in that writing, or producing, takes a place in the chronology of events, and editing comes afterward. It cannot be untrue, though. Without some product, there can be no editing. And so, well, hence writers block. You sit and think, and nothing is good enough, so you or I, we--we--mentally edit it until there's a little nub of confused circles and really nothing to actually write down. Or at least nothing as close to the form of all of the mental edits told you were worth writing down. Thing is, of course, that having the space to write down something--anything--away and afar from the internal editor, is valid in and of itself. Creation and destruction, our old friends from freshman philosophy, and they are true. As true as anything else these days can be true.
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