sometimes i feel like i have to race against my memory to write stuff down before i forget... it's not necessarily the events themselves that i want to hold down on to; rather, the feelings slip away easily with time unless i capture them in the moment, as they are
> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
desperately need to write things down in the moment! the urge to write is (partly?) an urge to capture a memory u know will fade otherwise! I think this got a lot better for me after I started keeping a notebook and could just write things down immediately when they hit
sometimes i feel like i have to race against my memory to write stuff down before i forget... it's not necessarily the events themselves that i want to hold down on to; rather, the feelings slip away easily with time unless i capture them in the moment, as they are
yeah - annie dillard type beat:
> One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.
desperately need to write things down in the moment! the urge to write is (partly?) an urge to capture a memory u know will fade otherwise! I think this got a lot better for me after I started keeping a notebook and could just write things down immediately when they hit