" There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. "

Nothing much to do as a writer you see. Just pour out your soul, reduce it down into bite sized experience, nourish and shape what you feel inside. Not to mention, feel something a hundred times before you write once. Toil deep in human consciousness, in your consciousness. To walk deep into the caves of your demons and watch them eat your soul one bite at a time. Fight with it a thousand time to come up with a full proof plan that you could let others know, so that they don't have to die so many times to find it. To churn your sorrow, happiness, love, hatred, success, failure and everything you ever felt untill it's smoothy smooth. Untill it's easy for your readers to gulp it down. Just to nurture a story, an idea, a poem for months, sometimes even years and then throw it down on paper. Just to remove all the filters and bare yourself in front of everybody, vulnerable, weak, sad may be happy too. To put your guard down, bracing for attack at any moment. Or diving deep in the sea of stories and writing, rewriting a thousand ways in which the story could unfurl for it to be interesting. To keep up with the anxiety that most of the times accompany any work of art during and after the process of creation. To be nervous and proud and hopeful at the same time. 

Just that you see, doing all that while sitting on a typewriter. 


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