A note on the writing process.
How do I put these notes together? “Art fully” would appear to be an appropriate response. I am, as well, approaching this narrative as both a sculpture and as as a musical composition.
I am beginning to suspect that my approach may come across as being relatively straightforward with whomever is connecting with this material. I am becoming a little more comfortable discussing the process of writing. I describe here another exploration of the creative writing process.
As you becomes familiar with the approach to sculpting “Cedar and Granite,” which is both cedar with granite stone naturally encapsulated, it becomes evident that I am using a similar approach to sculpting these journal notes and these narrative materials.
In engaging in this written sculpture I ask, “What is this material going to look like when it is completed?”
I don’t appear to know at the moment.
This may in contrast be a case of somehow already knowing yet simultaneously being afraid to commit to knowing as I am conditioned to wanting to know for sure before engaging a task.
Maybe I don’t need to know yet. When the time is appropriate the way will be clearer.
There is a distinct possibility that there will be a time to leap. I am at least somewhat comfortable that a leap is not called for at the moment. I would be leaping with only partially edited topics that I still have to make more complete and flowing.
I pause. “What am I able to do?” I will edit the topics, clean up the present content and explore any related topics that come to mind.
I will listen again, with increasingly focused attention and intention: for order, for sequence, for continuity. I will listen for whatever resonance presents itself. Do I feel I want to express more on a certain subject? Do that! I will listen for discordance, and listen for more harmonic resolution. At this point it is not so difficult to recognize discordance.