On Writing
Where do ideas come from?
Can I make my own cloud? Impossible to answer. I can detail the process from words to ideas to storytelling, except for the nature itself of the idea. I will try to describe it as if the mind has its own feet, leaving my brain and effortlessly wandering in another realm, and comes back with images that need to be deciphered. Other times its from a dream. I am always jolted by what it brings back, and like switching on a computer, all systems go. With butt on chair and pen on white pages, the stream of flooding ideas is about to overflow! Sometimes I write so fast, but the flow of words is faster. Therefore, the editing process is crucial, a day after dumping all these ideas from my mind's escapades into its own world. These ideas, they are not mine, I am just a channel for these words with meaning. Then I write, the only job I can do to convey the message to the readers or whoever needs these words. So where is this world full of ideas? I don't know.
Butt on Chair
Writing is a solitary process. I don't think anyone who embarks on a writing project can do it like those who knit, casually chatting over tea. I mean, how?
A writer requires a space and a lot of time to let one's imagination run wild, often in seclusion that might span years. Essentially, the mind and body focus on not engaging with people and simply "butt on chair" to write.
The Routine :
I write before the sun rises. The goal is to finish a draft of a poem daily, handwritten in my 6x5 in. notebook. Once I finished all 176 pages, I draft the next collection.
On Writing
Fiction is the fog that diffuses the truth.