Writing

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Well, that's it. For 10 months now, I've been writing a lot more in a much more constant fashion. Mostly because I'm in Creative Writing at university, but also because I realize how huge my motivation is. I write, write, write, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and on, and on, and on. And I love it. As Akira Kurosawa so famously said, "It's wonderful to create." My characters surprise me, my story-lines as well. "Let the text speak for itself," I learned in my courses; "the author can't say anything for himself in his own texts," is another powerful lesson on writing. The text must speak for itself, the character must act for themselves. A text is a world in its own right; characters are people, fully independent people. The author is the bridge used by the text and the characters to move from a state on non-being to a state of being. Deciding that you want your text to go from *here* to *there* most probably won't work : as an author, you can decide on a starting point, but not on the destination. Not at all. Rest assured, a text knows where it wants - needs - to go. If you force its hand, that's where you stop writing and start talking - and even more than that, listening to yourself talking.

I don't know how many people will be reading this, but hopefully it can help motivate some writers-to-be.

Oh and, one last point : having written 89574603850671 texts which you only shoved in a corner doesn't make you a writer. So long as you don't dive back into a text to rewrite it, rework it, you can never be a writer; you are only "someone who writes."

Over and out.

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