#(saying this i mean specifically imagining/thoughts like 'in detail visualizing/fantasizing/dreaming the Whole Story'

[skalidris]

genuinely, truly, really, refuse to empathize with the sentiment that 'writing is awful & suffering & only hard' because i think it distorts the sentiment of whatever the person actually thinks and also takes you further away from writing.

(if, while writing, you are mainly thinking, 'i hate this!', you will be even less able to write! and feel worse about it! and also what you write will be associated with that bad feeling!)

and writing is so fundamentally different from like.. letting your thoughts go... because. it's a material thing. it's a physical thing you have to actually do which requires you to engage with the literality of expression.

so imagining is so far away from writing as a practical thing to do, that if you do imagine->write you're never going to be doing anything other than translating from your thoughts! because your imagination isn't bound by syntax or structure or coherency or strategic reversal or ,,,,

& writing super is! & that's not a bad thing bc that's its essence anyway! that's why it's writing and not playing a traverse flute!