Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art —Margaret Atwood, 1974 Writing is a process of consumption and expulsion. Chew, swallow, digest, expel. For some writers, hunger induces a flow state and increases the urgency of tone. Other writers need to be fed, slept, and sexed in order just to think. Controlling the intake of the body is a form of controlling what is expelled.
Language, Hunger, Abstinence
Language, Hunger, Abstinence
Language, Hunger, Abstinence
Last year I abstained this year I devour without guilt which is also an art —Margaret Atwood, 1974 Writing is a process of consumption and expulsion. Chew, swallow, digest, expel. For some writers, hunger induces a flow state and increases the urgency of tone. Other writers need to be fed, slept, and sexed in order just to think. Controlling the intake of the body is a form of controlling what is expelled.