Writing and ice creams
Dear readers,
According to Joyce Carol Oates, in her book: “The Faith of a Writer”, writing is the most lonely of the arts. This because the writer abandon the outsider world in order to build the “new world” of words or emotions and adventures. What is individual is portraid regardless of the outside influences, forgetting evertything we would like to forget, and including all the elements we want to remember.
To write is an art: (i) with its origin in the concept of game, improvisation, experimentation; (ii) fed by rebelion, a need to resist; (iii) a memorization of the past; and a (iv) form of an inner fight of an artist, a person, who feels, since ever, a need to complete his/her life. The author acknowledges that “everything happens between the paper and the hand that writes” as Samuel Beckett would say.
And why ice creams when writing? Well, if we feel an interior movement, an anxiety, a need to fill in a blanck page, then we also need something to refresh ourselves. Specially, if during Summer. At the end, its colours and flavours can be an inspiration for new words and new inner worlds…
This book is a tool to understand how to write, a path for the writing technique. At the same time, it is a statement transmiting the idea of writing as an activity only humainement valuable if it has art in it. To write is an act of art creation and not only a technical act.
Enjoy.
