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△ 184｜Recreation
Inexplicably recently, I got in touch with a friend who used to write “Brave New World” together, and talked about the changes in the past five or six years, which was quite emotional. Parents, those who have been through several marriages, those who are still single but well-off, each one’s story develops according to a course that is not directed by others.
Of course, everyone silently follows a “rule”, that is, no one mentions the “Brave New World” plan, because not everyone has the spare time to do these rather romantic things. Since everyone parted ways at the end of the blogging era, several people have stopped writing. Even creating documents “locally” and writing about their feelings are very rare – not to say that they don’t write at all, it’s just that the things they record are “embryos”, they just breed ideas, and then end their growth into Complete works possible.
In the end, a few of us came to an important conclusion – blogs, Weibo, or even a short video platform, it is only because the content can be spread and published, and it can create links with others, that a platform can be formed. The energy of continuous creation. When many people lose their blog-like “carriers”, it’s not that they no longer have the desire to create, but their expressions become powerless and blank, unless there is someone who can listen to and collide with them, then these inspirations and Even if cognition is recorded in the mobile phone memo, it will be completely forgotten sooner or later with the law of forgetting.
On the contrary, after I disappeared from LOFTER, the creation of Douban was quiet. Many people who wrote and discussed together in the past gradually realized that “life is more real and painful than bullshit creation”. Then in the years from Douban to the establishment of this place, I almost stopped thinking. It’s not that I don’t want to write anymore, but there are too many embryos born, but none of them can take shape, because they need conscious communication and confrontation with others in order to be deeply recorded. This is why I suddenly started a new round of 500-day writing plan. I have to think about these unformed inspirations in a complete way, and then form a trigger for the subsequent larger “sand pile effect”.
Coincidentally, including a blogger on my blog yesterday, I discussed “Should publication be the ultimate goal of writing?”, and I also discussed this topic with the former enthusiastic people of “Brave New World”. Interestingly, a few of us used to be big advocates of the “meaning of anti-traditional writing.” To put it simply, we believe that the core of creation is not to connect with others, as long as it is written by oneself, no matter what form it is preserved in, whether it will eventually be discovered by others, as long as it is created when it is created. purpose is achieved.
Thinking about it now, this romantic cognition has simply found an absolutely defensive rhetoric for “not being paid attention to your writing.” It turns out that if they don’t care about being published, they won’t necessarily be bred. There is no logical relationship between the two, but there is a certain triggering condition— creation does not necessarily need to be published, but publication will bring more momentum to subsequent creations. “I actually write well in private” This is more like an excuse for self-paralysis – those contents are just an “embryo”, whether it can be conceived into a complete work, this is the client’s own knowledge of. Usually, when I am too lazy to write for a long time, I will say “I have saved it locally.” As long as they don’t pierce each other, they can deceive themselves.
Of course, the writing discussed here does not include the form of “diary”, but if you suddenly start to think while writing a diary, if someone sees his diary, should he add some bridges for “others”? This method of writing a diary needs to be discussed at the level of “publishing as the purpose”.
Adhering to the purpose of writing is also quite “self-deceiving”, in the name of preventing the brain from rusting, and of course there are some cases of private goods. For example, the memories left by the early recovery from a serious illness form a scene novel, which is actually a confession to his wife; others are innuendo satire; but I prefer to be humiliated by name, and I have to declare in advance not to take the right seat. They all take publication as the “purpose”, because this is part of the “500 Days of Persistence in Writing”, but this plan is internal, and it does not constrain others and does not bother to explain “why” everywhere, because it has nothing to do with other people’s doubts and revisions. definition.
The ultimate purpose of insisting on writing is actually to “re-create”. In the last “∞” written in 500 days, there are many small stories that suddenly opened, but they soon dig holes. And the fun is that it will appear in various forms in the annual, or even several years, “Fiction of the Year”, and become a bridge for re-creation in it – they are like in a modern movie, seeing A remodeling and tribute to his favorite classic, the kind of fun that may only be felt by moviegoers.
Creation is contradictory, and in the extremely exclusive flow of thinking, I look forward to blending and colliding with the thinking of others. It’s a retrospective, a prophecy, and then waiting for some point in the future when there are enough of them to cause a creative sandpile effect, and then re-creating them into a completely different story and core.
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