Sheila Heti: Show what you think about all day

Author Sheila Heti:

More and more as I get older, I want my writing and my life to interweave. I don’t want my books or writing itself to be something separate from what I would do anyway, or to be about something apart from what I am thinking anyway—my writing should be no differ­ent from my thoughts going through the day. I don’t know if I have come to this because I can’t seem to sepa­rate out a privileged space for writing, in which I imag­ine other worlds, or if it’s the reverse, but it’s important for writing and life to be fairly seamless; to be the same thing. So that I can come to the computer at any time—night or day, for ten minutes or two hours, and begin writing from where I am—from what I am thinking about. I want writing and living to be one thing, so that writing is just me living, but on the page—an extension of the living I was doing before I sat down to write.

Source: How to fall and fly at the same time by Mason Currey.