How to Write What You Came Here to Write: An Attempt at Writing AT the Definition of "Writing At"

In order to write something close to what you really want to write, you must push. You must write something that sounds like something you would write. Then You must write more--you must get bored with the way you write, and try something else. Abandon complete sentences. Delay the settling of syntax. Delay the completion of the thought. Allow the gaze to focus, then dilate and take in unexpected things, and allow those unexpected things in, onto the word-receptacle. Allow yourself to abandon your original purpose. Let the newness arrive in its bloody mess.



In order to write what you want to write about, even the above must bore you. You must decide to stop writing, and then continue writing. You must encounter fatigue and push through it. You must feel your thought-muscles quivering beneath the pressure you place upon them, and watch them buckle, watch the joints collapse, watch extra joints appear in strange places--then GO INTO THOSE STRANGE PLACES.

Take but one thing with you: trust in yourself, and trust in your mind that you will get there. You will know when you do. You will know when you get. there. Because you will surprise yourself. When you surprise yourself, you are there; you are writing what you came here to write.

Congratulate yourself upon arrival here. Stay for a while.. Let it go. Push some more. Exciting writing is all about when the author pushes zir perceptual capabilities, encounters resistance, and then breaks through that resistance into a new way of seeing / of knowing.

We like to read active minds. We like to watch discoveries as they happen.

-Isa (eesa)