Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Friends today i want to share  some things about how much i love to write..........or penning down my thoughts........
one thing i can clearly tell sometimes to my friends and now to you is that I get a real sense of enjoyment and satisfaction from writing down my thoughts. 
Most of the stuff I write remains private with me because it would make little or no sense to anyone other than myself.................... 
At times it doesn’t even make much sense to me but that doesn’t matter.............
It is not the outcome that provides the enjoyment and satisfaction, it is the actual act of doing it. 
I love feeling my fingers on the book or the pen in my hand and just watch as the words appear. 
Most of the time I have no real idea of where it is going and what might come out. 
In other words, I never sit down and extensively plan what I write..............
 In fact, I rarely have any idea whats ever about where the words will take me and for me, this has big part to play in the enjoyment I get from it. 
It is like going on an adventure into the unknown................. 
Most of the time it results in fractured thoughts and random word salad but even this provides a sense of satisfaction. 
It may provide no value whatsoever to anyone reading it, which is fine by me.
In addition to your comments, it provides a way for me to look back and sometimes see things from a different perspective............
 I do have that ability with books where i write too but I like the blog format better because it is easier to navigate and easier to find whatever I want to look back on.....................
 I have never considered myself a writer nor have I referred to myself as a writer............. 
Writing is simply something I enjoy doing................in this world whole heartedly...............
Well! Perhaps I am a writer after all but then again, who cares? After all, what difference does it make?
 I like writing and that is enough for me. I don’t need a title or some kind of label to make me feel better about myself. 
This wasn’t always the case though. 
I have regained some sense of reality reluctantly and, while I much prefer the daydream and still dream of the ability and skill to write for a living, the very thought of actually writing a book overwhelms me  even though to the point of being unable to start it. 
It is easy to forget that writing or creating can be a fairly lonely task.................. 
I am not just referring to the written word but also to all of the other art forms..... painting, music, etc. 
It is a very personal and individual act. I am not going to pretend I am talking from experience because I have very little experience when it comes to writing. But I do know what it feels like to get so focused, on creating/writing a piece of music or simply just hacking away at the things arround me, that I lose touch with everything else around me...............
This is what I love about it. It’s way of escaping into my own world where the reality of every day life simply doesn’t exist. 
A few years ago I did think about signing up for a course in writing like this but then procrastinated on it until I simply forgot about it.
 Actually, this might be one of the few occasions where procrastination has served me well in that I am happy I never signed up for it, because I think it might have made me write according to a defined set of rules.
 This to me seems restrictive and quite frankly I am not a fan of rules!
Writing is an art form and should be open in my view , not be confined by a specific structure or set of rules and nor should any other form of art................it should be open............widely through the heart.......................
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