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No pen and paper
Ramadan no longer has an impact on my lifestyle. Indeed, these days, my routine hardly changes. The pattern has been set and it remains: the physiotherapist, the pills, the whole regimen. Life goes on just as usual except, perhaps, for one thing. I meditate longer. Ramadan is not a month for writing, as far as I am concerned. I always set it aside for contemplation, for the development of new thoughts, the search for new concepts. I am currently working on several fresh ideas, and perhaps after Ramadan I will include them in the collection I am now publishing under the title Dreams of Convalescence.
The contemplation of a literary work is a totally different process to writing it down. In the phase of contemplation you can change the ideas freely, twirl them a bit in your mind, let them breeze and mature without the intrusiveness of pen and paper. Once an idea has sufficiently evolved you will sense it. But if you start with writing it down, it may become fixed, irrevocable. This is something I have always known, but now I am resorting to this method of literary creation more than before. I have three or four ideas, let's call them dreams, and they are not yet written. They are developing on their own, without the benefit of pen and paper.
Based on an interview by Mohamed Salmawy.
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