It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
In the sense that writing is to retrieve the past and stop the passing of time, all writing is about loss. It's not nostalgia in the sense of yearning to bring back the past, but recognition of the erosion of things as you live.
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
It is always easier to write from the heart and deal with things in the present.
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.
It was such a paradox for me that the only thing I know how to do is act, but that the first thing I abandoned while writing were the characters.
This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a release for me.
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
I think that all writing is in search of lost time. I'm starting to realise that very clearly.