My Writing For Me: A Biological Process

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Writing for me is a biological process. This is the best analogy I can think of for why and how I write. Initially there is the basic autonomic writing, that inhales like a thought and exhales like a note: “take out the trash” or “buy milk and butter”. Then there is the slightly more complicated procedure of writing that is intended to communicate with others. This becomes somatic rather than autonomic. It requires that your eyes respond to what you have seen, and your ears to what you have heard. The eyes and ears in this procedure are like translators and interpreters. The stimulus comes into the eye it hits the back of the retina and gives it color, the upside down image becomes interpreted as a response. It is in focus now the dialog is …show more content…
I draft in my head. I hear the dialogue auditorily. I hear who said it, I hear how it’s said. I hear the tone I hear the inflection I hear it all. I hear how I want it to sound out loud. It is hard to convert the sound to tangible writing. Also when I am drafting so many things in my head at once and I hear the voices and the dialogue it can get rowdy. So neurologically, when someone has so much stimulus in the mind, so many synapses firing at once it can cause issues like Tourette’s. To avoid shouting inappropriate rhetoric at inopportune times it is often best to relieve some of the pressure by making a note or two that I can come back to if I desire. This is the superficial release to take pressure off. It is a note like “write funny poem about homeopoiesis”. So I can concentrate on studying anatomy and not on coming up with lines of a poem for homeopoiesis which sounds like it needs a …show more content…
Whether I need to vomit out the acid of some unsettling feelings. Or fulminate or pontificate. These thing are better gotten out than held in. Just as it is best to vomit immediately when ingesting a poison, this type of writing is good done as close to the initial stomach upset as possible. Such as when someone gives unsolicited advice. This however is not the only excretory type a diary may consist of. There is the micturition response, which is the way the kidneys rid themselves of the waste products from the blood. This can be likened to clarified writing process you can get rid of all the contaminants in circulation or your drafts in you’re the head and be left with pure and good material. Inside. The last but to me the most vital excretory diary function is that of the fecal matter. This may be thoughts or feelings from even childhood that were stuffed down your throat without the ability to chew that got swallowed and have sat in the gut for years trying to be digested. This is the constipation that can kill, prevent future digestion block the flow, poison the mind. It is the writing that needs to be defecated and flushed. Clean yourself up and move on. This is the type of writing it is hard to do regularly but without the regularity one can become anally fixated or anal expulsive. This to me is the most function of writing in my life excrete those wastes and toxins so more

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