Yet another obligatory meta post.
My writing has certainly changed over the past couple of months, as well as my aims when writing. Whether this is for the better or worse, I don't know. I just know that I want to keep writing as the structure of my life dramatically changes, and naturally the structure of my writing will follow suit.
I'm aware some of the writing isn't great. I've got some typos and some odd sentence structures here and there, where perhaps fatigue or a wandering mind has angled away, like a drifting hand that is trying to draw a line.
I just don't have the energy to fix everything and straighten everything up, which is ok with me for now. Just going through the process.
Energy in fact is an important component. I've tried to organize thoughts in shorter bursts, trying to encapsulate everything within shorter blocks of text. I've always admired works like the Tao Te Ching and The Prophet for their lean passages, which nevertheless convey much meaning. And poets have always been able to accomplish this as well.
On the other hand, I'm also busy admiring something like Das Kapital, with its enormous scope and intricate detail. A problem. But maintaining a lifestyle that includes heavier physical labor just doesn't provide the surplus energy required to write like that, or oftentimes even read something like that. And all of the background research required to maintain such a project, and traffic in others' ideas related to that project, just implies a different lifestyle altogether.
It is just as important that the fact remains that I don't intend to labor like this as a permanent lifestyle. Heavy labor is invigorating and very rewarding, but too much at a sustained rate becomes burdensome and one toils away instead of self-actualizing. So my life will change in turn, seeking the sweet spot in which I can subsist with satisfaction, and my writing will certainly follow suit.
One should also be thinking about one's readers. What should one be asking of one's partners in communication? What is one's community's shared world supposed to look like?
