A nice excuse: Writer’s Block
February 11, 2007 1 Comment
The writer is back.
Sometimes, it just feels right to stop doing whatever we’ve been doing, and observe the surrounding with a careful eye for lessons. That’s what I was doing.
Time keeps moving ahead, and if I were to delay penning the notes I’ve been gathering for a while, it might all just turn out worthless.
I hope not to take a break this long ever from writing, for I see this wires my intellect to my practice.
…[writing] wires my intellect to my practice.
Well said Murali. In this context wanted to quote E H Carr, from his book What Is History? In this extract he discusses his own way of writing (basically History):
… as soon as I have got going on a few of what I take to be the capital sources, the itch becomes too strong and I begin to write–not necessarily at the begining, but somewhere, anywhere. Thereafter reading and writing go simultaneously. The writing is added to, subtracted from, re-shaped, cancelled, as I go on reading. The reading is guided and directed and made fruitful by the writing: the more I write, the more I know what I am looking for, the better I understand the significance and relevance of what I find.