Apr 23, 2014

Writing.



All Writing is simple: as easy, as diverse and as debilitating as infinite monkeys typing. 

Pigments evolved to ribbons, ribbons to keystrokes; and yet the written word remains trapped in an endless cascade of factual charades, disgruntled poetry and moralistic rhetoric.

Today, practices differ, stylistics digress, and metaphors clash as writers become martyrs not as much by technological obsolescence as self-inflicting hubris. Characters matter, words don't. Sarcasm shrunk to trolls; poetry to perverse rhymes. No one reads, everyone writes.

The essence is this: Writing must be cathartic. It is not worth wasting words scribing experiences if they do not wash over you and change you. It is not worth writing if it doesn't instigate the reader. 

The written word isn't merely a palliative: it must purge the writer and cure the reader. It is a drug administered to the mind and the heart.

Writing must sweep you over, and under. It must alter conscience and consciousness.
Writing must always be cathartic.

But above all, Writing must be simple.

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