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Writing in the Sand: An Inspired Writer's Notes


ggggggggggggggggggggggggWriting a piece
ggggggggggggggggggggggggin the sand of the Internet …
gggggggggggggggggggggggga wave of clicks finishes it.

gggggggggggggggggggggggg-- paraphrasing the haiku by Stanford M. Forrester


The Supposition of the Act of Writing

At the core of the act of writing is the supposition that there is a certain unity to human experience. This means that when someone is telling something about his life story, he is talking about, to some degree, all of us. Every man has within himself the entire human condition.

Writing as an Social Act

Writing is an act of will and artistic expression, spending time on weaving the web of narratives. It is also a social act where the imagination of the reader meets that of the writer. Thus, in that sense, a piece of writing becomes like an agora, a marketplace of viewpoints brought by each of participants.

The Duality of the Writing Process

The writing process builds a double vision of the past and the present, the inside and the outside, and the envisioned and the experienced. It is a process of moving through two worlds at once, each hovering behind the other.

The Act of Writing

At times, the act of writing is like lying down on Freud's couch and lashing out what was well kept within. You explain it, impose some order upon it, and then lay it to rest

Autobiographic Writing

Autobiographic writing is a quest for one's inner standing. The life portrayed in an autobiography is not just something established but rather it is a process; it's not simply the narrative of a voyage but the voyage itself. Therefore, in the process of autobiographic writing, a sense of self has been transubstantiated

Narrativizing Life

Ending exists in art, but not in life -- short of our own breath. The moment the telling of a story is ended; it is immediately made unrealistic. By the same rationale, the moment a story begins; it is also unlike real life. Giving a narrative to any life event is basically a fantasy created by the human mind to rationalize the unfocused contingency of the real world.

Storytelling as a Process of Becoming Self

Storytelling is not a spectacle of the inner self striving to be let out, but an attempt of one's self to find identity in terms outside of oneself. The act of storytelling works dialogically -- not so much to claim that others recognize one's authenticity, but rather to fashion the recognitions for which one's story provides. To portray the inner self is possible only by portraying one's communion with another; in the interactions of one with another, the inner self can be revealed for others as well as for oneself. Stories, as in dialogues, do not present a self formed before the story is told; rather, in stories one becomes for the first time who he or she really is.

A Life Text

I compose my life out of the cracks in the wall of past memories and the dragon footprints of my future. The making of a life is similar to that of a text. I live by reading my own life stories; I read with imagination and a recollection of a life text: an inscription in the stone wall as well as an imagery infusing the maker with hope.

The writer

The writer is a man who is two: one observes, and the other acts. Mostly, the observer does nothing, but he is always there, a stranger to his surrounding world. And then, when it's absolutely necessary, he speaks out loudly through his writings.

The Writer's Work

The writer's work is to name the unnameable and to articulate the unspeakable; to point at frauds, take sides, start arguments, and stir up the world. And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his writing inflicts, so be it for they will nourish him.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

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Writing in the Sand: An Inspired Writer's Notes


ggggggggggggggggggggggggWriting a piece
ggggggggggggggggggggggggin the sand of the Internet …
gggggggggggggggggggggggga wave of clicks finishes it.

gggggggggggggggggggggggg-- paraphrasing the haiku by Stanford M. Forrester


The Supposition of the Act of Writing

At the core of the act of writing is the supposition that there is a certain unity to human experience. This means that when someone is telling something about his life story, he is talking about, to some degree, all of us. Every man has within himself the entire human condition.

Writing as an Social Act

Writing is an act of will and artistic expression, spending time on weaving the web of narratives. It is also a social act where the imagination of the reader meets that of the writer. Thus, in that sense, a piece of writing becomes like an agora, a marketplace of viewpoints brought by each of participants.

The Duality of the Writing Process

The writing process builds a double vision of the past and the present, the inside and the outside, and the envisioned and the experienced. It is a process of moving through two worlds at once, each hovering behind the other.

The Act of Writing

At times, the act of writing is like lying down on Freud's couch and lashing out what was well kept within. You explain it, impose some order upon it, and then lay it to rest

Autobiographic Writing

Autobiographic writing is a quest for one's inner standing. The life portrayed in an autobiography is not just something established but rather it is a process; it's not simply the narrative of a voyage but the voyage itself. Therefore, in the process of autobiographic writing, a sense of self has been transubstantiated

Narrativizing Life

Ending exists in art, but not in life -- short of our own breath. The moment the telling of a story is ended; it is immediately made unrealistic. By the same rationale, the moment a story begins; it is also unlike real life. Giving a narrative to any life event is basically a fantasy created by the human mind to rationalize the unfocused contingency of the real world.

Storytelling as a Process of Becoming Self

Storytelling is not a spectacle of the inner self striving to be let out, but an attempt of one's self to find identity in terms outside of oneself. The act of storytelling works dialogically -- not so much to claim that others recognize one's authenticity, but rather to fashion the recognitions for which one's story provides. To portray the inner self is possible only by portraying one's communion with another; in the interactions of one with another, the inner self can be revealed for others as well as for oneself. Stories, as in dialogues, do not present a self formed before the story is told; rather, in stories one becomes for the first time who he or she really is.

A Life Text

I compose my life out of the cracks in the wall of past memories and the dragon footprints of my future. The making of a life is similar to that of a text. I live by reading my own life stories; I read with imagination and a recollection of a life text: an inscription in the stone wall as well as an imagery infusing the maker with hope.

The writer

The writer is a man who is two: one observes, and the other acts. Mostly, the observer does nothing, but he is always there, a stranger to his surrounding world. And then, when it's absolutely necessary, he speaks out loudly through his writings.

The Writer's Work

The writer's work is to name the unnameable and to articulate the unspeakable; to point at frauds, take sides, start arguments, and stir up the world. And if rivers of blood flow from the cuts his writing inflicts, so be it for they will nourish him.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

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I've revised my piece.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.