Truthful Tuesday: how I write
For me, writing is cathartic. It is a blinding explosion, it is bulls running through Pamplona, it is a airplane crashing into the side of a mountain jarring lose the snow cap and it screaming down the cliff, tumbling over itself, looking like heavy white smoke. I may write for hours and thousands of words and it is deeply personal, so personal that sometimes it hurts to go through and refine what I have done. But that is what I do, I see what I have written and I tighten it up and I grimace when I take out words, but that’s what writing is- to me at least. While the process is therapeutic, the product must be aesthetic.
I’ve begun writing again- writing for me. I haven’t written in almost 2 years. Nothing good- nothing sizeable. The last thing I wrote was a short story about a pirate ship my friends and I had in high school. Maybe I’ll post an excerpt sometime. It was about 20,000 words- it drained me. I’d like to write something more like a novel now, if only for my own self-gratification. That’s what I’m doing. I’m going to try to write a novel. I started last night and got about 3,000 words down. I know you aren’t supposed to keep track and the story is more important, but, for me at least, seeing linear progress is necessary. If I ever can make it good enough, maybe I’ll post a bit on here.
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