What do I write ...?
Why is it that when you try to write something words just dry out? Thoughts evaporate and the mind becomes blank and listless like the summer sky at NADT. Methinks writing is truly (and to extend Wordsworth’s thoughts) the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions. That there’s something which triggers the torrent of words and gives it a shape. Now that ‘something’ is what evades most of us most of the time until suddenly unknown and unseen it creeps in stealthily in some corner of our minds and an urge is born. I call it the writer’s agony. Its like a strange pain which continues to throb until you dissolve it in the ink that flows from your pen or the rhythmic clicks of your keyboard.
Anyway while I was meandering through a lot of irrelevant and often completely meaningless stuff I chanced upon these quotes on the art of writng. And I leave it here for you to read for atleast there should be something worth reading in this post. So here goes...
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. -Anne Lamott
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. -Jules Renard
Every word written is victory against death. –Michel Butor
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. -Anais Nin
And finally the one that I was looking for...
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writng. -Melinda Hatnes.
Adieu...
Why is it that when you try to write something words just dry out? Thoughts evaporate and the mind becomes blank and listless like the summer sky at NADT. Methinks writing is truly (and to extend Wordsworth’s thoughts) the spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions. That there’s something which triggers the torrent of words and gives it a shape. Now that ‘something’ is what evades most of us most of the time until suddenly unknown and unseen it creeps in stealthily in some corner of our minds and an urge is born. I call it the writer’s agony. Its like a strange pain which continues to throb until you dissolve it in the ink that flows from your pen or the rhythmic clicks of your keyboard.
Anyway while I was meandering through a lot of irrelevant and often completely meaningless stuff I chanced upon these quotes on the art of writng. And I leave it here for you to read for atleast there should be something worth reading in this post. So here goes...
We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. -Anne Lamott
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted. -Jules Renard
Every word written is victory against death. –Michel Butor
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection. -Anais Nin
And finally the one that I was looking for...
Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writng. -Melinda Hatnes.
Adieu...
1 comment:
I totally buy that point- forget...write 4 urself n clebrte writin :-)
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