Firstly, what's a POP IT and WHERE HAS IT BEEN HIDING ALL MY LIFE.
But secondly, I'm a process junkie who has resisted (hated) all questions (even to self) around filmmaking processes, because I often feel the doing of the deed (writing, filming, filing taxes) exists somewhere between the verbal and the non-verbal, the real and ephemeral, the conscious and subconscious (hello, laundry), and spelling it out may just be doing the actual deed a...disservice?
Am I superstitious? NO NOT AT ALL TOUCH WOOD THOO THOO
Sometimes the way to cure yourself of process is to ask yourself of the process in everything except writing. It's blah, it's meh, this whole process thing, everybody does it all the time (including, alas, accountants). But the writer zone, my friend, that one is special to only to some, tell us some more about it :) Loved the essay, and the postscript!
This made me feel attacked and reassured all at once!!
I always feel like an impostor when I am asked ‘what do you do’ and I say, ‘ I write’ because it is often followed by, so what have you written lately, what do you generally write about? And then there you are, forced to define yourself in terms borrowed from the ‘business of writing’. Fiction, Non fiction, memoir, long form, short form. What are we but just ‘professional observers’ of the world around us. I would rather answer, ‘what have you observed about the world recently’ because that’s where my zone lies. Not in a genre or publication or in the hills or in that house that overlooks the lake.
Firstly, what's a POP IT and WHERE HAS IT BEEN HIDING ALL MY LIFE.
But secondly, I'm a process junkie who has resisted (hated) all questions (even to self) around filmmaking processes, because I often feel the doing of the deed (writing, filming, filing taxes) exists somewhere between the verbal and the non-verbal, the real and ephemeral, the conscious and subconscious (hello, laundry), and spelling it out may just be doing the actual deed a...disservice?
Am I superstitious? NO NOT AT ALL TOUCH WOOD THOO THOO
Sometimes the way to cure yourself of process is to ask yourself of the process in everything except writing. It's blah, it's meh, this whole process thing, everybody does it all the time (including, alas, accountants). But the writer zone, my friend, that one is special to only to some, tell us some more about it :) Loved the essay, and the postscript!
This made me feel attacked and reassured all at once!!
I always feel like an impostor when I am asked ‘what do you do’ and I say, ‘ I write’ because it is often followed by, so what have you written lately, what do you generally write about? And then there you are, forced to define yourself in terms borrowed from the ‘business of writing’. Fiction, Non fiction, memoir, long form, short form. What are we but just ‘professional observers’ of the world around us. I would rather answer, ‘what have you observed about the world recently’ because that’s where my zone lies. Not in a genre or publication or in the hills or in that house that overlooks the lake.
Thanks again for this insightful piece: