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In recent years, I've taken comfort in the patterns, the cues, the forms, the structures that writing lets us work with and have used them to help me see the puzzle pieces before me and simply put the puzzle together. I've learned that the cues, the patterns, the forms that writers use are like filters that let what's unnecessary in our writing sift away and what is core and central stay close to the surface and stand out, stay visible and easy to use. I've learned two things: One, in writing, I did not need to make the simple complex. I could acknowledge the complexity and chaos, the iceberg of experiences, voices, ideas, or characters surrounding my writing, but using words and images within structures, I could streamline, hone in, simplify. Two, there's comfort in form and reliability in structure, and the honest use of form and structure is a way to make the complex simple in writing. What's unfocused, drifting, unstructured, chaotic is not another complexity that needs addressing, but a simple thought or moment or experience looking for a structure to rest in. |
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