I think this is the clearest summation of why writing has become my newest passion. Thank you for gathering your thoughts and expressing them so clearly. I will save and refer to this article many times across months and years to come, I'm sure. MCP
Love this! You describe this process so well. Reminds me of what Stephen King said writing or storytelling is like uncovering a fossil that’s already there, you just have to work to discover it.
Thank you for making clearer what happens during the process of writing and how it opens up more panoramic views of that “something” so firmly “there” that words can only bring us so far to observe as from a cliff.
So ... when we write, just for the joy of it, we experience the universal truth that things have value simply in their being? Thank you for expressing this so beautifully here, Claire Nelson. Yes, I'll sign up for this (writing for the joy of it), but I also want to hold it in tension with the transactional realities of being ... I still need to eat and pay the mortgage. Can we have both?
I think this is the clearest summation of why writing has become my newest passion. Thank you for gathering your thoughts and expressing them so clearly. I will save and refer to this article many times across months and years to come, I'm sure. MCP
Love this! You describe this process so well. Reminds me of what Stephen King said writing or storytelling is like uncovering a fossil that’s already there, you just have to work to discover it.
Thank you for making clearer what happens during the process of writing and how it opens up more panoramic views of that “something” so firmly “there” that words can only bring us so far to observe as from a cliff.
So ... when we write, just for the joy of it, we experience the universal truth that things have value simply in their being? Thank you for expressing this so beautifully here, Claire Nelson. Yes, I'll sign up for this (writing for the joy of it), but I also want to hold it in tension with the transactional realities of being ... I still need to eat and pay the mortgage. Can we have both?
Loved this description of writing. It made me feel something. And I think I'll go write about it now! 😁