Truth of Writing
The truth of the matter is that the creative act doesn’t fulfill the ego but changes its nature. As you write you are less the person you ordinarily are—the situation confers strength.
You learn to trust what comes to you unbidden. You learn to trust the act of writing itself. An idea, an image, a voice, comes to you as a discovery, and you don’t possess what you write any more than the mountain climber possesses the mountain.
Writers write by trying to find out what it is they’re writing.
-- E. L. Doctorow
Aren't these such revealing words... In the process of writing Daimones, and even more while writing the sequel "Once Humans", things happens in the mind of those who are writing, and the work surge to its own life.
One becomes truly a narrator, reporting images, voices, events discovered while they are being written. The writer becomes the first reader of the story and very true, you don't possess the story, the story is already there, you're just another reader...
You learn to trust what comes to you unbidden. You learn to trust the act of writing itself. An idea, an image, a voice, comes to you as a discovery, and you don’t possess what you write any more than the mountain climber possesses the mountain.
Writers write by trying to find out what it is they’re writing.
-- E. L. Doctorow
Aren't these such revealing words... In the process of writing Daimones, and even more while writing the sequel "Once Humans", things happens in the mind of those who are writing, and the work surge to its own life.
One becomes truly a narrator, reporting images, voices, events discovered while they are being written. The writer becomes the first reader of the story and very true, you don't possess the story, the story is already there, you're just another reader...
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