Good evening, Heather here. Michael left a note with a short addendum to the blog we posted several days ago (Metaphysics: To Clarify the Multiple Meanings) and asked me to post it. From what I see, it’s apparently directed to those who want to write and have asked about that. It seems a bit brief, but since Michael and Amber are gone for a few days to attend a symposium in Carmel and go hiking in Big Sur, I can’t ask, so I’ll just post it. Here it is:
I write because my experiences in the world demanded it, and to taste those experiences twice, in the moment and in retrospect. Find your reason to write. If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing courage to do it. You have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing your wings on the way down. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Bear in mind, writing is art and must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be art. A well-composed book must be a magic carpet upon which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way. The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but to say what others are unable to say. That’s what good books are for, to get at the truth when the truth isn’t sufficient to illuminate the truth.
Writing is art, and art is magic. But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magical reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If the creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic. We love magic not because we are used to magic, but because we are used to loving.
“Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“Those who find no metaphysical meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde
“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” — W. Somerset Maugham
Heather here again. I love that last quote, lol. One last note, don’t forget that ‘In the Valley of Supreme Masters Anthology’ is free in the Kindle store Oct. 29th, 30th, and 31st. ASIN B00ZCPFFBM, 2015 Release, Kindle Edition page count 310.
Have a wonderful evening,
Heather
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