About the activity of writing, while we walk, it is advisable to take into account the following.
We should start writing light things, like a phrase, a sentence, a paragraph.
As a suggestion, if we do not want to do it on an artistic trend line (poetry, short story, novel, essay, etc.) or technical documents (article, report, research work, etc.) we can try to describe part of our own problems, of any type of them, for example, of the sentimental, labor, economic, loving or emotional field; what first comes to mind, at the beginning of our walk.
We have already mentioned that writing is an ideal means to allow us to extract from our interiority what we feel and how we feel it. In other words, we could say it is an encounter with ourselves.
All our thoughts, when writing them, enter a threshold, which amplifies and emphasizes them in our consciousness making clearer and confronting them in a more understandable, affirmative and accepting way.
I have expressed in other moments, the following: “Of course, this process [thresholdism] works not only for the senses but for the rest of the mental and spiritual perceptions of the human being. It works along the extreme limits of sensory uptake, as a continuous process, without sensory interruptions; from the minimum reaction of capture of any sense or mental function (lower border) to the maximum capture (upper border) “. Writing -as well as drawing- allows us to introduce ourselves to this process that I have called thresholdism (In my book Tap Tap, Plastic and Poetry, Emulisa, 2017).
Later, in a short period of several weeks, we can write a letter, an acrostic, a palindrome. Afterwards, feeling a little more secure, a poem, and later stories and why not, an essay; to arrive, if you wish, even to write a short or perhaps long novel. For any of these options, you must have an inclination and taste for what is selected and what is to be done.
If we have mentioned writing about the problems that afflict us, it is because I believe that they are closer to our emotional memory, and it is easier for us to describe them in writing, however, we can also write the good things, events and experiences that have happened to us or well they happened to us on the previous day. Those little or big experiences that we have had, in recent days. Also, on the other hand, we can read a page of the book that we carry with us and write a text summarizing what we have understood of its content, with no more than 20 words.
To be writing in a brief, shallow way, as we have pointed out, does not require further organization, since only the hand is “let go”, without any goal or task.
I invite you to read these other writings:
Loya Lopategui, Carlos, Tap Tap, Plastic and Poetry, EMULISA, México, 2017.
Literary production is correlated with the generation of sawdust from pencils.