Tuesday, July 26, 2005
The Unwritten Dilemma
"I need to write. My book report needs to be written by tomorrow night. But there is a great dilemma—whatever I write, it will be wrong. I will have to re-write it. It will be in the wrong place, it will not say what I really want to say, it will repeat something I have already said, it will say what I do not want to say, or it will simply be irrelevant. Even if I actually write something that is really what I want to say, it will have to be moved and tweaked before it is where it needs to be. But the greater dilemma is that it cannot be otherwise—I cannot write what I want to say or have it in the right place unless I have already written what I do not want to say and put it in the wrong place. Only then can I write what I really want to write and put it in the right place. And so I must write, but I must write knowing that I will have to re-write--that I am not really writing because this is what I want to say and the right way to say it, but because I know that if I do not write what I am writing I will not be able to write what I want to say and find the perfect spot for it." And so I write.
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