Floating

There are times when we write that we may have too many ideas or they have not yet fallen like rain onto the page but instead drift around in wisps and fragments. There were times where I had an idea of the direction I wanted my writing to take but the tide would pull me in many directions and it was hard to steer the course along only one. The following are examples of these drifting works and how they eventually anchored to one idea yet still displayed that wishy-washy sort of start.

Critical Literature

Technology and the Future

Writing in the Professions

Creative Writing

Writing 4 You

Let's think of the ideas or thoughts we want to convey as the water. It flows and often follows where it can be led or follows in directions it already knows. Next, let's think of the act of freezing like the act of writing those things down. We claim a position, sometimes rethinking it and forming it up in other ways, like the melting or thawing of water. If we think of this chemically, then the molecules move fast, if they move too fast they become air and float away, like unwritten ideas but when they freeze they slow down, sometimes barely moving on a point and that is writing them down. It is then we can see them interact with other molecules of thoughts or water (though in other states they can as well), some may even follow another's lead, slowing down to listen or move on with that idea, changing it to fit them. However, it's when many begin to listen or to think about it that it creates the sheets of ice that can move mountains. Sometimes those written sheets of ice move slowly to create the changes in our world. Sometimes in an instance, it finds just the right crack and breaks and crumbles the solid foundations that needed to move aside. No matter the change or speed the water, ice, or stone, makes, it is the constant transformation that writing should continue to solidify within and beyond us.