Tag: writing
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Poetry, yoga and uprooting. Kikidorinen and a search that gives it unity
I lived the uprooting of my country as the uprooting of my writing. As if pulling up by the roots a vital power that had no fertile ground in another language. After some time I developed a personal writing in English, that I was able to keep expanding thanks to this website. However, the power…
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A little fire: two years blazing
Migrating is an intense experience, full of challenges and surprises. New worlds and significant losses. One of the biggest is the one of the native speaker status. For me, the written word was always the main way of expression and tool work. When I arrived in Australia in the beginning of 2023, the feeling of…
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Why do we keep writing?
What is the force that keeps us doing something like writing? Which is the real reason why we insist on putting one word behind the other, while the years run away and nothing beyond that has come? Do we write to get readers? I do not think so. Together with the question about if I…
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Back in the wave of the web
What makes the difference between science and faith is that a scientific statement has to be open-ended and capable of being superseded by later research: that´s the thing I most remember from when I took the subject Philosophy at the university (the author is Popper), and maybe it is one of the reasons why I…
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I love paper, but it is too heavy: questions about private writing in the digital era
Much has been said about the death of paper with today’s technological transformation. Undoubtably, the explosion of platforms and digital formats has modified the ways we read, and not only that, but the ways we live and make sense, how we create our identity and how we spend our spare time: a report by Social…
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Writing to inhabit, and why this website
Writing has always been for me a way of inhabiting, of recognize myself: thus inhabiting a language necessarily implies writing in it. Writing is an exploration, a way of appropiating the foreign language. And the opening to the second language revitalises my writing: the impossibility of counting on it was a desolate loss, that I…
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How to take care of your writing and avoid the dangers that threaten it
Writing is an underground river running internally, and blooms in strange geysers, lakes and waterfalls when the cracks for it to emerge are created. It is the expression of a living force, something that is always there, the river running silent and in the dark. Taking care of one’s own writing is a commitment that…
A little fire 