Idea Writing

Idea Writing
The flow process.
I definitely go "somewhere else* when I am writing.
H/T Grizwald Grim 

Originally shared by Bruce Marko

Letting Go

Perhaps the most fascinating aspect of writing is not knowing exactly what you're going to say. In some respects it is an exploratory process as much for the author as anyone.

At least that's been my experience. Though I may have but the shadowy outline of an idea or a full on topic to tackle it turns out writing about it in practically any capacity is really a process of letting go.

Of alot of different things, and sometimes it is other things we are holding on to which prevent us from being able to let go of what we need to.

Fear is a thing many of us can never truly let go of, but we can let go of fear in the moment, and in that fearless, single moment express ourselves by letting go with wild, even reckless abandon, and capture it, freeze that moment in time. To marvel later at it's quality and through it's existence relive the moment it was forged in.

Truth is the question we sometimes find during this creative process of letting go. We occasionally have preconceived ideas of unknowable things, and we find the question is the truth the answer itself obscured, until we let go of them long enough to see it.

Through the process itself we forget what we are holding on to, and for the briefest moment we can act as though we let go and know what it feels like, taste what we might discover about ourselves as well as the world.

Once we have seen them, the things we need to let go of, what ever they may be, then we find it's only us between our words and ideas, it was always only us. We didn't lack ideas or words, we simply refused to let go.

In letting go I often start writing before the idea is even formed, other times I'm reacting to an emotional response and find myself describing the shape of it. The words write themselves and as they do they reveal often unanticipated vectors of logic and spontaneous lines of thought that can turn one kind of project into something else entirely.

The dissertation itself becomes both expressive and introspective in equal measure, though truly only the author has the abstract encryption sequence needed to see both sides equally, to understand all the under currents of intention. Yet the quid pro quo between any author and audience is that both sides are always there, that the expression is introspective.

Some people call it a flow state, but people can call it whatever they want, I call it letting go, because that's what it is, for me anyway, and I'm just a person banging away on a tiny keyboard on a phone somewhere out there, fearless in the moment..:)

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