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When i'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! it's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
-Erica Jong
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When I'm Sitting At The Desk Not

Erica Jong
When i'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! it's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
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Writing helped to have jobs that involved running around, pushing things like dish carts and wheelbarrows. it would be hard to sit at a desk all day, and then come to sit at another desk. also, it helps to abandon hope. if i sit at my computer, determined to write a new yorker story i won't get beyond the first sentence. it's better to put no pressure on it. what would happen if i followed the previous sentence with this one, i'll think. if the eighth draft is torture, the first should be fun. at least if you're writing humor.
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First, consider the pen you write with. it should be a fast-writing pen because your thoughts are always much faster than your hand. you don't want to slow up your hand even more with a slow pen. a ballpoint, a pencil, a felt tip, for sure, are slow. go to a stationery store and see what feels good to you. try out different kinds. don't get too fancy and expensive. i mostly use a cheap sheaffer fountain pen, about $1.95.... you want to be able to feel the connection and texture of the pen on paper.
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Compared with the person who is conscious of his despair, the despairing individual who is ignorant of his despair is simply a negativity further away from the truth and deliverance. . . . yet ignorance is so far from breaking the despair or changing despair to nondespairing that it can in fact be the most dangerous form of despair. . . . an individual is furthest from being conscious of himself as spirit when he is ignorant of being in despair. but precisely this-not to be conscious of oneself as spirit-is despair, which is spiritlessness. . . .
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An individual in despair despairs over something. . . . in despairing over something, he really despair[s] over himself, and now he wants to get rid of himself. consequently, to despair over something is still not despair proper. . . . to despair over oneself, in despair to will to be rid of oneself-this is the formula for all despair.
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The first sentence of the truth is always the hardest. each of us had a first sentence, and most of us found the strength to say it out loud to someone who deserved to hear it. what we hoped, and what we found, was that the second sentence of the truth is always easier than the first, and the third sentence is even easier than that. suddenly you are speaking the truth in paragraphs, in pages. the fear, the nervousness, is still there, but it is joined by a new confidence. all along, you've used the first sentence as a lock. but now you find that it's the key.
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I have a real aversion to machines. i write with a pen. then i read it to someone who writes it onto the computer. what are those computer letters made of anyway? light? too insubstantial. paper, you can feel it. a pen. there's a connection. a pen goes exactly at your speed, whereas that machine jumps. and then, that machine is waiting for you, just humming "uh-huh, yes?
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