Writing at the Speed of Life

Jerrik Neri
Nov 4 · 2 min read

You can type your life away.

But it’s far from the same feeling that you have when you write it away. When you pronounce each letter and stroke and punctuation and let it leak out of your soul. The speed against the hesitancy. That same haste versus the decisions that must be made, and the tangents that follow.

For if we focus with more intensity, will we truly be more creative? Or is the increased productivity of letters and words and sentences working against the parallel possibilites that our mind attempts to spur, but has shut down in the face of…

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