Writing

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Why write? Writing as crystallized thought, a way of expressing the labyrinth of interconnected, messy, and many time incoherent ideas in my mind.

Why write? Writing as crystallized thought, a way of expressing the labyrinth of interconnected, messy, and many time incoherent ideas in my mind. It is a form of knowledge distillation . The thing I like about writing is that it’s quite literally thinking —a way for me access my own interiority and construct something from it. What I write is all mine, it’s a living thing, it’s an extension of me that wanders out into the world. (Ava in How To Avoid Half-Heartedness ) It is a form of lossiness as mutation , a way to re-interpret and adapt the thoughts into a new form — to breathe it new life.

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