Making friction, if not fire

The main idea behind blog writing is this - you have something to say and you want to say it now and you don't give a shit if the writing is crap or whether it is good or even if it is mediocre. All effort that leads to product on a blog is fruitful work.

The idea that you must be a good writer in order to write is stupid. You can never be good at anything without a great deal of time, effort and brain cells being expended in the task of learning the business - no matter what the business is. In fact, even the smallest task may take more time than you can possibly think it will take simply because we underestimate the time it requires to become proficient, we forget about our struggles in getting to a state of proficiency and we are almost oblivious to the agony of it all when we get to victory. In my case, every fricking advancement was accompanied with an incredible amount of repetition of the task. Proficiency never came easy to me.

Why should writing be any different? Writing is one of the most difficult of tasks to learn because it involves thinking and thinking as we can all ascertain by looking around our world, is in short supply. Even the people who ostensibly are supposed to be our thinking heads - our government leaders - are stupid and fail to think before they open their mouths or do their acts of government. But no matter, just because our appointed thinking heads are dolts doesn't mean that we need to persist in this type of state to keep them in sync with us. We can think or learn to think all by ourselves. One way to learn to think or to take baby steps at thinking is to sit in a quiet room and write.

Doodling which is writing with free will and free heart, is the best way to start the writing practice. Pick up a line and let it take you where it will. Once you have exhausted the possibility of the leader line, go to another line and follow it down the road it is taking you to. Once you have ended the lines and the paths, stop. Then start another story. You can do this over and over again until you are simply wasted. It will be good for you. A brain that is exhausted is a sign that you have actually rubbed a few neurons together, made friction, if not fire.

Making friction, if not fire is a wonderful way to learn to write. I do it all the time on my blogs. I know the writing is idiotic. I give myself freedom to be idiotic. I allow any kind of fall on my face type of word congregation. I allow myself to look stupid, be stupid and write stupid. I am always in the process of making friction, if not fire.

Sometimes, I do catch fire. I get into the topic. I am myself. Utterly passionate and flaming. It is such a great feeling. It is like great sex after a period of abstinence. It is like being on top of a mountain and cross country skiing down it without falling. It is like getting to the top of Mount Robson with your beloved and making love in a tent after a meal of wine and meat. It is just the best feeling in the world to make fire with your neurons in friction.