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Going Beyond Words
Going beyond expressing
Hierarchy and writing should never be in the same room together. They should never be at the same party.
The very second that writing whores itself out to hierarchy it loses its authenticity.
Someone said that once. I don’t remember who it was.
When we write something and submit it to a popular publication we are trying to push our writing up the ladder of hierarchy.
There is nothing wrong with that. Nothing at all.
When we spend many hours writing something and only three people read it…
There is nothing wrong with that either.
It only takes one reader! Only one!
But that’s a lie. You don’t need any readers at all!
The only thing that matters is that you wrote; that you put what is in your heart out there. Seriously, that is all that matters.
To expel and expunge and release is what writing is all about. It’s about clearing the pathway for new thoughts, new ideas, new feelings.
Our fingers on the keyboard of our laptops are like a toilet. We release that which has been digested and built up. We clear the pathway for new thoughts and ideas and we do that by excreting old thoughts and ideas.
