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• I see first what commentators also noticed most: my so-called “romantic” approach, that is, my emphasis on freewriting, chaos, not planning, mystery, magic, and the intangible.
• “Just write, trust, don’t ask too many questions, go with it. Put your effort into experiencing the tree you want to describe, not on thinking about which words to use. Don’t put your attention on quality or critics. Just write.”
• I needed to say the wrong words to get to the right words.
• If I push that word away because it’s wrong, I lose my tenuous hold on that delicate string, and hence tend to lose the felt reaction and meaning that I started with.
• phenomenological philosopher, Eugene Gendlin. “Felt sense” is the useful term that he coined. What I and others have learned from him is how to make more room for felt sense. As Gendlin points out, people often experience meaning at a nonverbal and even inchoate level. But he lays out a process that is remarkably helpful in finding words for what w...