Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
Well I like this bit of advice above all : write what you really care
about. A lifelong democratic socialist , I think the daily insanity of
the capitalist system gives me plenty to think about while writing and
plenty to write about while thinking .
[ " Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others
should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with
language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in
your style. I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way — although I
would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about
something. A petition to the mayor about a pothole in front of your
house or a love letter to the girl next door will do. " ]
Writing is Thinking
[ " It’s simple. The amount of information our brains can fit into our short term memory at once isn’t a lot. If you never have thoughts that require notes, then all your thoughts are small or unoriginal enough to fit into your tiny short term memory. Writing allows you to record your short term memory into a format that you can examine and reflect upon, so you can suss out what makes sense, and how it makes sense, and then expand on the original seed. When you expand your thought all the way into a piece of coherent writing, it becomes complete. It would have been impossible for you to have that size of a thought without writing–your brain just isn’t powerful enough. If you’ve never written anything thoughtful, then you’ve never had any difficult, important, or interesting thoughts. That’s the secret: people who don’t write, are people who don’t think. "]
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