The writer's break
Dec 8, 2023 23:03:33 GMT -8
Post by account_disabled on Dec 8, 2023 23:03:33 GMT -8
I think that after each work of art the artist must recollect himself: «to reconstitute the element that the flame has consumed»: or, I would say, simply to live: to prepare those materials, or those « spiritual", from which art will have to draw. Diary of Guido Morselli, 15 July 1946 With this thought Morselli talks to us about something we already know, the break that the writer needs to recover from the long work of writing. A necessary pause, which no one will be able to object to. However, writing is mental work and the mind needs to regenerate.
The metaphor used is beautiful and poetic: writing seen as a Phone Number Dataflame that consumes the writer's thoughts. Thoughts that need to be reconstituted. Morselli, as always, however, goes further and speaks of "preparing those materials, or those "spiritual", from which art will have to draw". It is this last sentence that made me reflect and which I think is worth dwelling on. The art of writing needs the direct experience of the writer in order to germinate. Does it need material and what is that material if not the author's daily experience? It also needs the spiritual and what is the spiritual if not the emotions and sensations of the writer? The pause that the writer will have to undergo is preparatory work, so that his writing can once again be enriched with stories to tell.
A thematic blog represents an in-depth study of your passions, a help for your readers, a showcase that allows you to be known, admired, even requested. Writing always using polemical tones alienates readers, or at least alienates those readers who, like me, want to find quality, useful information, food for thought and discussion, ideas to write about in a blog. I've seen bloggers who do nothing but argue about everything. Their blogs have turned into a daily controversy. What is the use? Is there still passion in those blogs? Or just repressed anger? Controversy, like crime, doesn't pay In the long run the controversy becomes tiring.
The metaphor used is beautiful and poetic: writing seen as a Phone Number Dataflame that consumes the writer's thoughts. Thoughts that need to be reconstituted. Morselli, as always, however, goes further and speaks of "preparing those materials, or those "spiritual", from which art will have to draw". It is this last sentence that made me reflect and which I think is worth dwelling on. The art of writing needs the direct experience of the writer in order to germinate. Does it need material and what is that material if not the author's daily experience? It also needs the spiritual and what is the spiritual if not the emotions and sensations of the writer? The pause that the writer will have to undergo is preparatory work, so that his writing can once again be enriched with stories to tell.
A thematic blog represents an in-depth study of your passions, a help for your readers, a showcase that allows you to be known, admired, even requested. Writing always using polemical tones alienates readers, or at least alienates those readers who, like me, want to find quality, useful information, food for thought and discussion, ideas to write about in a blog. I've seen bloggers who do nothing but argue about everything. Their blogs have turned into a daily controversy. What is the use? Is there still passion in those blogs? Or just repressed anger? Controversy, like crime, doesn't pay In the long run the controversy becomes tiring.