Cathy Can't Reach the Windows on the 11th Floor

[commonpeople1]

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Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a book, is to find yourself, once again, before a book. A vast emptiness. A possible book. Before nothing. Before something like living, naked writing, like something terrible, terrible to overcome.

- Marguerite Duras, Writing

Comments

[live-life-like.livejournal.com]

miss you so much!!!

when are you coming?

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Looks like 20 July. For a month! How are things with you?

[sallypointzero.livejournal.com]

I just watched the vid thanks: it brought back so many good/ sad memories I feel rather tearful now. Sniff.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that brought you sad memories.

[tarotbydiana.livejournal.com]

Of Duras: Ah, the creative void. Such a paradox. There is nothing with the potential for everything. It feels like throwing ideas into a black hole and waiting for something to stick to the edge and take form. It's a mezmerizing emptiness.

[tarotbydiana.livejournal.com]

Or perhaps even mesmerizing!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It's even harder to stare at the void and not have any energy to throw something at it.

[tarotbydiana.livejournal.com]

Try throwing something really light in hopes it will gain weight in midair. I've had ideas that seemed foolish or impossible take shape. Maybe being a little frivolous will help get back your mojo.

[la-mascherina.livejournal.com]

Alright, dear?
Everyone has to find their way, but I think to get back onto the path of creativity, you just have to live. Just be.

Ah, Ms. Bush is as wondrous as ever. : )