Story:

I am an author and an actress, and I brought a pencil. 

So, we have a lot of different voices and a lot of different languages, with which we talk to our friends or colleagues, to present ourselves and to fight for something, and we have a specific inner voice, which is the most authentic one, that we tend to lose. So, I write a lot. I write scripts, I write more academic things, I write emails. 

I find that, right now, it’s very difficult to be in touch with your authentic voice that doesn’t try to achieve something. This language just tries to exist. So, I understood that whenever I write literature, I write with a pencil. But it’s just instinct, I don’t want to do it, I don’t choose it. Every time I write an email or anything else, I use my laptop. So, I chose this pencil without thinking a lot.

I understood that we sharpen and sharpen the pencil during our life, and it becomes smaller and smaller, but each time you sharpen it, the joy is the same as the first time, and the page is starting from the beginning, and you remember yourself at school writing and sharpening and doing all that stuff. So, this journey makes the pencil smaller, but the experience is newer and clearer every time. 

So, after this experience of trying to write literature again, I chose to take the pencil and write, even if I have no inspiration. This is my situation right now. Sometimes you have to take the pencil and put it on paper. 

It’s an exercise I propose to my students, that every time you take the pencil, try to write for five minutes non-stop with nonsense or whatever else. Because this is the time when your authentic language makes an appearance. It also works with painting and other arts.

– Mata