🧵 1/n 'Writing is breathing, books are living.'
That was on my old business cards. I realised how true the saying is for me yesterday when I started blogging again. I took a deep breath again and danced on the keyboard.
My problem was: how do I find adequate language in completely absurd times, without using the narrative of resigned apocalypse twaddle, without giving too much space to those who are politically keen to be quoted often, even if it
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🧵 3/n toil to counter evil. Who think ahead, network, have new ideas. Sometimes such a window is small and only briefly shakes people out of their reading slumber. Ideally, it sticks in people's minds and makes them think.
The difficulty for me lies in being able to distance from myself in order to see the window. I have to disengage from the stream of news and swim, pardon, think against it.
I have a simple method for this: nature. Even if I just hang over a cushion of moss with a magnifying
🧵 4/4 glass. That puts my mind right. 😉
And then I always hope that my own wiseacre fuss will come back to me the next time I struggle and stumble with my writing. 😂
@NatureMC I think my take a break image I post from time to time fits your thinking.
🧵 2/n is in indignation. How not to work for the #outrage economy of #socialmedia?
In non-fictional texts about socially relevant topics, it is incredibly difficult to maintain distance these days. It is too convenient to reproduce the almost meme-like agitation. This guarantees masses of readers from #doomScrolling. It spreads what the evil guys want: Fear, paralysis, helplessness.
A good text must state the #facts, but open a window. A view of what could be different. A look at the people who