Dear Tumblr #5.
I´m a Writer.
I don´t usually specific this because when people start reading my posts, is kinda obvious. I mean the tags I use, the things I talk about all the time, the pictures I upload. My biography. Etc.
I don´t know why I´m making this clear today.
I´m a writer. A writer in progress to be a famous artist. I´m working on every day to get my goals done. Nethertheless, besides my work and the books I read, and besides everything, there are things that I still don´t know and I try to learn by myself.
As a writer in progress I´m use to push my feelings into the paper. Into the stories I write. It´s something like: I have this problem and I can´t solve it, so I´m going to write a fictional solution for the main character that represent me.
And now I´m thinking how good is that.
Talking about the words of the Wise Master of my last post, Writing, as any other arts and sports, is a muscle that I have to excercise everyday. So, my question is: Should I have to learn to write random stories without involving personal emotions?
My short, on the spot answer was: No.
Writing something that means nothing to me seems absourd. What´s the point of writing if the things you write are meaningless? If they don´t make a difference to anybody, what´s the point of writing in first place?
Maybe, this idea about writing things void of emotions make me improve my writing in a gramatical way... But can´t a text be so emotional and not having a great writing at the same time?
Little things are emotional, too.
And, talking about emotions, a text void of personal feelings is a emotional-less one?
What is the point of having a good writing if there is no message to communicate?
I believe that we writers are writers for a reason...
Let me correct that.
I believe that we writers, between all the things that we can be, we choose to be writers for a reason.
And esencially we all might have the same reason: We have something to say and, even more important, we want to be heared.
So, talking about writing text lacking of personal feelings is not kinda forgot the reason why we are writing in first place?
I believe it is. Tell me what you think.
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In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry, But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green Water, and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky, Had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.
- Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), “Musée des Beaux Arts”.
