“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means.” — Joan Didion
There’s a part in Writer’s Quest where Senta, my main character, explodes into her notebook and experiences a great release from finally unloading all the weight she has been carrying. I think one thing that is important for us as writers is to avoid explosive writing.
Writers should write so consistently that they don’t explode; they consistently flow through their own unfolding.
As writers, we are consistently taking in new ideas, working on stories even without the document in front of us. As humans, what we take in, we must also sit down and sort through. When we don’t sort through all the information we’ve been collecting, we can lose track of ourselves. And when we lose track of ourselves, we lose track of all the things we value.
But when we write, we allow our brains to run the way they are created to run. We allow them to acknowledge and feel and observe and learn and explore and connect. As we learn our characters, we learn ourselves. And that’s the value of unfolding.
Writing, for me and for Senta, is our lifeline to a more peaceful inner world.
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