> The further you go in writing the more alone you are. I took a creative writing course not too long ago, and I find this to be true. The best writing I have

> The further you go in writing the more alone you are. I took a creative writing course not too long ago, and I find this to be true. The best writing I have done is when I am surrounded and embodied by my aloneness/solitude/silence. It’s a place where you feel your room/life is full of yourself. I remember vividly being in front of my computer, writing a piece on iA Writer. I would drift off into these imaginary places in my mind, thinking about what I want to say and how I want to say it, then I would recall a line from a book where I would then draw inspiration from. Ultimately it was: writing, dreaming, talking to myself in my mind, rereading out loud, rewriting, going to get a glass of water and walking to my backyard for a breather yet still full of myself and the piece I am writing, etc. But it takes a while to get into that state, a place where you are full yourself. Some people may call this state, the flow state. I find it easier to get into that state late at night, a time where I open the window, the air is cool and fresh, and the crickets are chirping away. Otherwise, I wish Albert Camus had done one of these Art of Fiction interviews.