“Each juggler should be trained in the ignorance of the laws of physics.” –Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There has to be a certain amount of ignorance or just plain delusion in writing. It’s the delusion that people would want to read what you have to say, sure. But, more than that, it’s ignorance of just what you are in for.
If you knew how much work, how much drama, how much of a royal pain in the neck writing a book is upon starting, let’s be honest, you probably would never have started it in the first place. That ignorance of just what you have undertaken is the impetus of everything.
There is also something very freeing about having no clue what you are doing. If your head is filled with rules and expectations of what the process is going to be like, you are going to constantly hit up against those mental blocks and expectations. But if you have no clue what you are doing, that ignorance is bliss as you force blindly ahead.
Hillary DePiano is a playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer who loves writing of all kinds except for writing bios like this.
