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This is my favourite part. Figuring out how to navigate this interface so bear with me for formatting and overall aesthetic

Picturing myself as I write: It can be easy to get swallowed by the tortured artist aesthetic, adhering to a stream of consciousness more so than a precise depiction of an analysis. Words which are laced with personal purpose, rhetoric prevalent to one’s identity in favour of a societally set standard. I gravitate towards the tangible utensils when writing. Transcribing rather than typing. Manual, not automatic. The environment that writers curate to create within traditionally holds much gravitas. Different habitats for creation entertain separate models for construction. Alexis digresses that one’s writing identity is influenced by their writing habitat, utilizing the inanimate objects around them. The material culture of writing is an interesting phrase, as it deems spaces and tools artifacts. Historically, I would argue that this used to be of more prevalence than it is today, as today one could say there are less diverse writing environments within the digital age.

We are of course, all products of our environment, so to dissuade this notion of materiality would be foolish. I can appreciate the stem at the base of the flower, those peculiar methods which cast that much more light upon your work. I’d say this is part of the magic of creative processes, the inclusion or, if anything the inability to exclude the effects of one’s surroundings, is in itself, part of the procedure in itself. For example, writing on a boat in the middle of nowhere exhausted may expel more visceral words, ones alleviated from the usual leash in a more homely environment. It simply does not matter how you curate an environment that boosts your productivity, or loses productivity in its absence; it purely matters that you can curate it. You are your own agent, and that is the magic. 

Where are we going to go? There is nothing to discuss in this avenue.. It’s all demographic based, we are all products of our environments, it is obvious that our works are shaped by who we embody and what we represent as a person, the only question is how can we sculpt ourselves.