Post by account_disabled on Dec 28, 2023 10:47:09 GMT 7
A few days ago I published an article where I reflected on the current situation regarding my writing: writing during the Covid-19 emergency has had ups and downs, more downs than ups, indeed, in my case. But if we slow down our writing activity now , all our literary and web projects will slow down at the same time and the time needed to complete them will become longer. However, there is also another reason not to stop now and continue writing . Now writing becomes more important than yesterday. Now writing goes beyond pure venting and the need to communicate. Writing to make sense of these days There was talk of a "strange" March. Then came April, with its even stranger Easter and Easter Monday.
It's strange that we found ourselves in this situation, to which we don't know how to give meaning, a name, a meaning. So writing helps us find this meaning , to make these days less Special Data strange than they are. Writing is a cure, it becomes the antidote to the poison that is around. An antidote that cannot eradicate any virus, but can ward off desperation and anguish. Write to bear witness to this crisis It is an unprecedented time in our history. My mother, who, although young, lived through all the years of the Second World War, does not remember an unusual period like this, barricaded in the house, with the silence coming through the windows filling the houses. I have never felt Rome so silent, I have never seen it so deserted.
Writing a diary that bears witness to these days of emergency represents almost a completion of our changed life. Writing it online is even better, because it will remain in history, and one day, when everything is over, when none of us will be there anymore, that diary will continue to tell these days of silence and self-certifications, of distances not to be bridged and of gloves and masks to wear. Today, more than yesterday, there is a need for early blogs , those created to tell about oneself, one's life, the online diaries that appeared in the early days of the blogosphere, when, in fact, a blogosphere did not yet exist. Write to avoid isolation If you can't leave the house, then let the words out. Write them everywhere , in a notebook, in a diary, on a new blog or on the blog that follows your moments and your work, on the social networks you frequent and on the chats you entertain yourself with.
It's strange that we found ourselves in this situation, to which we don't know how to give meaning, a name, a meaning. So writing helps us find this meaning , to make these days less Special Data strange than they are. Writing is a cure, it becomes the antidote to the poison that is around. An antidote that cannot eradicate any virus, but can ward off desperation and anguish. Write to bear witness to this crisis It is an unprecedented time in our history. My mother, who, although young, lived through all the years of the Second World War, does not remember an unusual period like this, barricaded in the house, with the silence coming through the windows filling the houses. I have never felt Rome so silent, I have never seen it so deserted.
Writing a diary that bears witness to these days of emergency represents almost a completion of our changed life. Writing it online is even better, because it will remain in history, and one day, when everything is over, when none of us will be there anymore, that diary will continue to tell these days of silence and self-certifications, of distances not to be bridged and of gloves and masks to wear. Today, more than yesterday, there is a need for early blogs , those created to tell about oneself, one's life, the online diaries that appeared in the early days of the blogosphere, when, in fact, a blogosphere did not yet exist. Write to avoid isolation If you can't leave the house, then let the words out. Write them everywhere , in a notebook, in a diary, on a new blog or on the blog that follows your moments and your work, on the social networks you frequent and on the chats you entertain yourself with.