I want to start the 2nd post in my blog with a quote from Finding Forrester. (Note to myself: my first post is still incomplete)
“No thinking – that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is… to write, not to think!”
Well, this is what I am trying to do while I write this post.
Alright.. now what do I write about? This is the place that I always give up after trying really hard to think of something new to write about. Well, don’t confuse it with “writer’s block”. That is a place that most writers find themselves only after they have written something and then suddenly cannot think of what to write next. I am in a place much worse than that. I call it the “writer’s void”. I am always trying to find a way to fill that void with some interesting topic so that I can atleast reach “writer’s block”
Oh wait..there is yet another thing I didn’t confess. There is a parallel process that starts in my mind, the moment I feel i want to write, which is cooking up a million topics that the subconscious mind feels I should write about. However, my conscious mind just doesn’t approve of any of the topics, rejecting each with either of these errors; ‘too insignificant’ or ‘in-depth know how about this topic not present’. So now I find myself in a place called the “writer’s dizzy”, caught up between my conscious and subconscious mind. This is a place where I am trying to formulate the opening sentences in my head for all those million topics, hoping that I will start writing something. It’s like the poor code in a continuous ‘for loop’, hoping to catch a break statement. :> I survive in that ‘dizzyland’ for a little while and then I find myself back in the place I originally started from; “writer’s void”
I am just happy that the continuous for loop of the human mind is not an infinite for loop!
Well, for those of you who have concluded that I will give up again….well you right..
I am back in the state of ‘what should I write about’.
Maybe you should scroll back to the 1st line of this post and start reading it all over again.

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