Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.
Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience.
It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact is they arise inescapably from one consciousness: the same one that is occupied in all the other activities which make up a life.
All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.
When you write a story, it just flows and you don't control it. It's subconscious.
There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
All this talk about writing is a little bit moot, because it is almost an unthinking process. It is actually a paradox because you are constantly making choices.
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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