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"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population. This disparity is particularly great as between ourselves and the peoples of Asia. In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity without positive detriment to our national security. To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and day-dreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives. We need not deceive ourselves that we can afford today the luxury of altruism and world-benefaction."
~ US State Department, 1948
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'A writer is someone for whom words are difficult' - or so wrote the French philosopher Roland Barthes.
As a published author for whom writing is almost as necessary as breathing and whose articles, papers and books have met with much approbation in their specialist fields, I know that there is no - repeat, no - easy/comfortable/painless way to writing for publication or to commission.
Well, that is if you want to write pieces of integrity, evidenced authenticity and depth that will move your reader, make your audience see the world in a new and different light, or evoke more than a passing interest...
This Guardian article then is more or less today's recipe for hack pieces that will line the budgie cage or provide puppy toilet facilities tomorrow.
No writer worth his salt can write in this formulaic way, to order, at the flick of a switch. Any good - that is, talented/skilled - writer will tell you that they are always writing in their heads, every waking hour, testing out sentences, describing in silent words what they see, weighing words and phrases, savouring and sifting observations observations and sorting them into paragraphs and chapters...
Writing is a process. It begins with the integrity of the writer, continues with active engagement in life and is peppered with honest research. Most of the process is hidden. It doesn't begin with a blank screen or a clean sheet of paper. Polished words crafted together as a publishable piece are maybe less than 5% of the total effort. Indeed, the blank screen/clean sheet are the very end of the whole effort.
And, yes, it does take a great deal of patience if you don't understand this organic, and, frankly, apparently 'magical' process. When you do, when you give up the notion that writing is a flatpack, formuliac product and give yourself over to the organic process then patience isn't even a footnote in your thinking: your writing just flows like heavenly water onto the page.