I wanted to do the exercise that Anne did, to think about writing as anxiety, since it almost cannot be done without it. If one didn’t have a anxiety to resolve, would one even write? And certainly the process evokes anxiety. I have anxiety about writing, and perhaps more about not-writing. I’d like to think through specific times, and even take one step back from the this assignment, to compose something (not about my anxiety as a writer), but note those processes almost in real time, as they happen. Then, compose something from those notes. This may be where I can start to access the “felt sense” recursions that you wrote about as a distinct or somewhat separate – consciously and presently feeling the words I’m writing and the simultaneous feelings that the process of writing evokes.
