#writing as process

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Mahmoud Darwish, from "In the Presence of Absence," originally published in 2006

[awnerd]

damn bro aint nobody reading all that

Thanks for the feedback.

Usually writing is meant for others to read. In those cases, I edit. Furiously. Time-consuming-ly.

But writing is also my process for working through an idea.

It’s not like I sit down and say “ya know what? This idea I have certainly feels pretty well formed in my head, and ready for publication. But I’ll bet it could use some noodling. Writing helps me think. I’ll use [tumblr].”

But sometimes that’s what happens. And when it does, I don’t always have the time (or energy) to really clean it up. If you think reading long form on [tumblr] is hard, try writing it. Or re-writing it.

It’s all good. Scroll on by. Honestly. I don’t know which post you’re referring to. I’m going to guess it’s my post about F=ma, in response to someone blaming everything on capitalism.

It’s way too long. I just don’t have the energy right now to do anything about it. But my thoughts are clearer now than they were when I started.

And sometimes that has to be enough.

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Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

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Rafa Matar, from a poem titled “Strength,” featured in Not A Muse: A World Poetry Anthology

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Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry wr. c. September 1922 featured in “Diaries,”

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Tadeusz Różewicz, tr. by Robert A. Maguire, from “Who Is A Poet,”