Everyone who has ever written something; a book, a story, an essay, or simply a few words, has faced the same reality: when they write, they have all the freedom that language and written communication can offer to anyone, they can express themselves using every example, or every word, or every term they consider appropriate to accomplish the difficult task of transmitting a message, an idea, a thought or an emotion. However, as soon as that writing is read by someone else, as soon that freedom disappears. Now whatever the writer meant to say doesn't matter, only what the reader understands matters. That is the magic of writing, the blessing and the curse of ink and paper.
The danger of this resides in the possibility of beginning to corrupt the selection of words, terms and elements that constitute what we consider a correct narrative, subordinating what we believe and consider appropriate by that which we consider less politically incorrect, or worse, condemning us eternally to silence.
The message is lost, blurred, the words begin to have their own life and to demand for themselves more importance on paper than what the writer wants to say. The writer who thinks more about the reader than about what he wants to transmit, is overwhelmed not only by the prejudices and predispositions of others but also by his own prejudices, and then the writer's block appears: a blank page that symbolizes the uncomfortable truth that has been silenced, because he has not known how to transmit it or because he considers that his message will be corrupted
Live Free or Die
I could say that writing is an exercise of free men, but it is not true, writing can also be the work of a slave. Free men write, but they write honestly, they write what they think and what they believe should be said, they write to transmit a message they believe is worth sharing.
If freedom means something, it is the capacity to be honest with ourselves and with others. Freewriting is not just writing the first thought that comes to our mind, but saying what we think should be said the way it should be said.
The reader will always have the option to take what is written and decide if he sees the positive or the negative in it. He will have the responsibility of obtain or not something from it, and he will have the decision to take the words or the message and interpret them in one way or another, because the writer cannot take away the reader's freedom to interpret and think for himself, just as he cannot take it away from the writer. Because if we want to have a free reading, we need first a free writing.
