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check back in a few decades and i might have something to say :)
idk how exactly to communicate that this isn't like a bummer or anything, and the right temperament is not anxiety or shame or frustration, it's just a splash of humility while you play and learn
also! you're more likely to be snuck up on and have worthwhile things to say before you know it if you're not like explicitly trying to do so i think
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Accumulate Words Worth Saying
this is a round about way of engaging with ppl in juliet's replies about writing, i think she's "earned it" in a sense, and if you're the type of person still having angst about what to write, you're probably not ready yet (which is okay!)
this is a bit of a naive and romantic view i'm expressing, something like "writing should be like achilles-ing" and that the topic should come to you not the other way around, i don't know if i really buy it, but i do think it's an orienting moment, even if ultimately superceded
also i'm saying "writing" but obvi this really applies to communication more broadly, and i like the idea that there are different modes of communication spanning a variety of spectra, some of which being more like "experience" and others being more reflective
maybe can be thought of as consuming and producing modes? thats rather vulgar but it gets at some decent approximations. i also think its vulgarity highlights the error of the perspective espoused above, that there is this more or less explicit disdain for production without prior consumption,
but surely some of the most relevant consumption one could have would be productive attempts and failures. i also think that i'm the one imposing the abstraction inappropriately, as i'm ripping those comments from their contexts: