Writing Again
It’s been a while since my last blog entry in late 2014. Since then, I’ve changed jobs and things have been rather hectic at work. But it’s also because I seem to be losing momentum in recent years. I can’t quite pin it down, but it could be that I’m getting old or lazy, or both. Murakami said that while some writers seem to have an endless well of ideas to draw upon, it’s not the case for him. To him, writing is something that he has to work on, and it can be tough depending on whether the creative juices flow. I’ve read his first few and later novels, and I never felt that he had to labor over his work. Somehow, he has a way of putting across his ideas in simple but impactful ways. True, his earlier works can seem plotless but he more than made up for it through his punchy writing. And some of his work are very complicated and hard to understand, such as Kafka on the Shore which I didn’t quite grasp. I’m not comparing myself to accomplished writers like Murakami.