Post by account_disabled on Dec 20, 2023 0:33:18 GMT -4
As in every discipline and art, there are myths in writing too . I'm talking about classic fantasies that everyone is led to believe in simply because they have persisted for too long. The time has come to dispel these myths and, at the same time, to refute what I am about to write. Because I'm the one who thinks these myths exist, based on my experience and the logic I apply in what I do. The myths of writing Inspiration : inspiration does not exist. The writer is not inspired by any muse, because not even muses exist. The world is material, not spiritual. It is made of things you can touch. The imagination, as such, is precisely part of the mind.
So inspiration resides right there, in our mind. But at the same time it is not even there, let's rather say that it arises in the mind of the writer as a function of an input , of information that is inserted into his memory. It is that information which, combined with others and Special Data with the reality surrounding the writer, triggers the mechanism. But inspiration doesn't exist. It's a hoax that has been going on for centuries. The writer finds his ideas wherever he can. If you want to call that "where it happens" inspiration , then that's fine. But don't talk about something that walks on a higher plane than your feet. There is no poetry in creating stories, there is only technique.
Pure, dirty, technical mechanics. The fear of the blank sheet of paper or writer's block : can you imagine writers trembling when faced with a blank page that chases them across the room? I also imagine them in a children's story. The fear of a blank sheet of paper is another myth that is struggling to die out. Let's give him a hand. What is a blank sheet of paper? A sheet without ink, be it material or virtual. So why should it be scary? Why don't you know what to write in it? So what do you want him to do? Why create a new document if you don't know what to write? When I open a document, when I create a new file in OpenOffice, I already know what to write. That sheet doesn't stay blank. On that sheet of paper I write a title, create a schedule, scribble phrases and sentences.
So inspiration resides right there, in our mind. But at the same time it is not even there, let's rather say that it arises in the mind of the writer as a function of an input , of information that is inserted into his memory. It is that information which, combined with others and Special Data with the reality surrounding the writer, triggers the mechanism. But inspiration doesn't exist. It's a hoax that has been going on for centuries. The writer finds his ideas wherever he can. If you want to call that "where it happens" inspiration , then that's fine. But don't talk about something that walks on a higher plane than your feet. There is no poetry in creating stories, there is only technique.
Pure, dirty, technical mechanics. The fear of the blank sheet of paper or writer's block : can you imagine writers trembling when faced with a blank page that chases them across the room? I also imagine them in a children's story. The fear of a blank sheet of paper is another myth that is struggling to die out. Let's give him a hand. What is a blank sheet of paper? A sheet without ink, be it material or virtual. So why should it be scary? Why don't you know what to write in it? So what do you want him to do? Why create a new document if you don't know what to write? When I open a document, when I create a new file in OpenOffice, I already know what to write. That sheet doesn't stay blank. On that sheet of paper I write a title, create a schedule, scribble phrases and sentences.