Loved this: “…everything going to hell right now is exactly why you should be writing.” Deserves a spot on the cork board of inspiring quotes I *should* have above my desk.
One downside of writing, from a mental health p.o.v., is that it erases important memories (at least if you're writing first-person). Neurologists tell us that any time we revisit a memory we change it, but if we don't just revisit it, we inspect it closely, we massage it, we manipulate it (perhaps so others won't recognise it) and to cap it all we shape it artistically to fit the overall narrative - once, as writers, we've done all that, the original memory is gone for good.
I've lost many of the most significant memories of my life. All I can bring back now are the disguised versions that appear in my fiction.
true- people already reconstruct memories even just thinking about them: writing down a version of what happened made solidify them into something more concrete than perhaps they should be
Querying IS objectively the worst.
Loved this: “…everything going to hell right now is exactly why you should be writing.” Deserves a spot on the cork board of inspiring quotes I *should* have above my desk.
One downside of writing, from a mental health p.o.v., is that it erases important memories (at least if you're writing first-person). Neurologists tell us that any time we revisit a memory we change it, but if we don't just revisit it, we inspect it closely, we massage it, we manipulate it (perhaps so others won't recognise it) and to cap it all we shape it artistically to fit the overall narrative - once, as writers, we've done all that, the original memory is gone for good.
I've lost many of the most significant memories of my life. All I can bring back now are the disguised versions that appear in my fiction.
true- people already reconstruct memories even just thinking about them: writing down a version of what happened made solidify them into something more concrete than perhaps they should be