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Please try the following: martes, agosto 12, 2003Merong magandang discussion ngayon sa flips mailing list tungkol sa writer's block. dahil wala akong pwdeng i-link, nakawin ko na lang itong galing kay luisa igloria : I completely agree with everything everyone's said so far: we need to immerse ourselves in the life, the sounds, smells, language, textures of the everyday. I agree with Barbara Jane about the cross pollinating effects of different disciplines -- and because I'm one of those people who quickly forgot everything about math after she -- glory hallelujah-- passed college algebra, those "other zones" continue to have a weirdly seductive appeal to me. I love reading "softcore" science/physics books, things on natural history, taxonomies, anthropology -- and seeing how language is used in different ways in those places. I also agree with the guys who said things about the epiphanic moments in diaper-changing (replace term with any other repeatable domestic activity: washing dishes, throwing trash, etc.); one of MY most memorable "unblocking" moments was getting up to nurse my second daughter at three or four in the morning; as she quietly sucked on my left breast I realized I was awake, had some extra time to write out thoughts I had been carrying around all morning for a poem but had not had time to attend to at work -- so I moved to the desk with her cradled in my left arm, and wrote. There's a time that I can remember at the beginning of my "career" as a writer, when the phrase "writer's block" could exercise a kind of magnetic fear on me. But I realized as I kept doggedly working at my craft that its effect is similar to, say, fear of your first mammogram (I just went in for my first one ever this month, so you see why it's been on my mind): yes it's an uncomfortable procedure-- in the same way that clearing the blocks or obstacles so that one can get TO the main thing which is to be able to do your writing; but coming out of it you realize that the idea has grown fat on lots of language, on mythologizing. Doing the writing regularly is the best way of saying "boo" to the multo (ghost) of "writer's block". (I swear by this now -- and I remember Denise Duhamel once saying something like she goes to her writing everyday like she goes to a regular job.) Luisa Cannot Find Server at a 4:21 p. m. |
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