Becoming a Writer

Thanks to Gilles Deleuze, I like to see my state of being as a becoming. I prefer thinking that I'm becoming something instead of being something. It escapes fixity. It forces me to foresee what's coming, and what I'm heading towards.

Hence, I'm not a writer, I'm becoming one. When did it start exactly? I don't know for sure. There is not fixed point in the timeline. There is no single definition to what my writing state is neither.

These days, I'm becoming a partner-writer. I prefer this than saying "editor". I'm still small, and I don't like putting myself in those shoes. I'm collaborating, on Medium, on Lines of Flight.

The writer I'm becoming writes with others. My articles still come out, but something else is happening, too. I'm helping novelists with their drafting. I'm editing articles for a publication. I'm no longer "just writing", I'm becoming part of a web.

It's not something I had anticipated. But I don't want to go back.

As it turns out, writing, like arts and crafts in general, has the power to be a perpetual line of flight. I hope I'll keep that trajectory for a while.