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A few days ago, I cried and said to my wife, I feel that I am so unfamiliar that I have resumed writing for 500 days this year. In any case, I can’t find the “spirituality” that I wrote in the last 500 days when I can easily grasp emotions and stream of consciousness.
She asked me a question: “Do you like what you’ve written before?”
I was stunned for a long time before answering: “I don’t like it.”
“What about now?”
“I think it’s so unfamiliar, it doesn’t look like I wrote it.”
Then, I immediately created a new folder on Notion and named it “Writing Between New Years”. Then I created a new note in it, named it “Written before the New Year in 2023”, and left the first keyword in it: stranger. I’m going to answer this question to myself at the annual “Write before the New Year”, which was the 365th day of my insistence on writing, and there are still two months left, allowing me to continue to familiarize myself with the use of my The body is written with “strangers” of daily writing.
Generally speaking, taking your own writing experience as the topic, the insights, experiences and conclusions presented will appear ambiguous and boring to most people – who should look at your life summary, I can’t experience your life, mine You can’t be in charge of your life. I have read two books titled “Experience” that resonated a lot with me, one is “The Road Less Traveled” and the other is “Becoming a Writer”.
Especially in “Becoming a Writer”, the author cleverly compares writing to three people, one is the character in the plot; one is holding a pen to refute that character, creating all kinds of trouble for him; A god’s perspective watching the two of them complete the refutation again and again – these three people make up the meaning of writing.
When I first felt that the characters in the plot were really “alive and self-aware” and realized that they would really guide the development of the plot by themselves, the excitement of writing is really hard to put into words. Picture it, but the author of Becoming a Writer did it.
To be honest, it’s obscure and “without practical guidance.”
But because I have already completed a 500-day writing, this round of 500-day writing is already halfway through. I have actually felt the existence of these three people, and they are indeed the three myself at the time of writing – one person made a “ridiculous conclusion” with emotion; the other person decided to use reason to collect evidence to prove this conclusion. Absurd, but he accepted the absurdity as he wrote it; then a third person, the one who actually wrote, recorded the conclusion and the process of argumentation. You will realize that sensibility is really an elephant, and reason is the little man who rides the elephant.
Look, it’s still obscure and “without practical guidance.”
This is probably the joy of writing, one day you will meet someone who has the same experience and “abstract touch*” as you, but that person may also be yourself a few years later, like “The Road Less Traveled” In this book, the author personally destroys the “map” he has drawn for many years to find the value of life.
– Five hundred days of writing | 700,000 words
* Abstract touch: refers to the process of figuring abstract concepts into works of art. Few people are aware of their emotional flow, or even face up to their emotional changes, and record them in any form, or trace them back to the cause. A few people can express their emotions through writing, painting, and music, or talk to their high-level subconscious through spiritual practice and ascetic practices.
——Don’t look for it, this is the concept I summed up by myself
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