They talk about dreading the blank page, what I notice is not so much dread but foreknowledge that it is only when the mind gets moving that anything reaches the speed of insight. You write in order to write, not the same with thinking out an idea, an idea can strike like lightening and it is a matter of finessing it with concentration, writing is rarely thinking for me, to start it is a game of association, it is pushing forward until something catches. Momentum, this new approach to writing is about harnessing momentum, in momentum it is not about thinking, at least not the traditional way, the thinking is numinous, happening behind the scenes. Writing is more like a seance than an intellectual exercise.
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