Why do we count our words? What does it indicate?

We write and after we have written we want to know what we have done. At that point, we notice that there is a gap between words that we have written and in fact these words can be counted. We count the words and we keep a record. When we have written a five hundred words, we stop. In text sometimes it is not about words - it is about ploys and it is about mechanisms that we use and the meaning they contain. A hastily written poem, only a few lines in length sometimes might means more than a few pages of long-form text. That is possible. But something else matters as far as text is concerned. The time taken to write the text matters because when we write we use the time to process things in our mind.

People meditate, they do yoga or they jog - a few amongst the many things they do to discipline and train their senses as well as their body. Our basic training has to be such that our fingers can construct meaning without our mind first constructing and then casting that meaning to our fingers. Fingers learn to write only under specific conditions. One, are they being physically taught to type? This is important. A lot of writing is purely physical. It takes patience to sit at the same place and observe the slow unraveling of meaning through words that are appearing on a screen or a sheet of paper. This patience has to exert brute force and act against the urge to fly off into the expanse and essentially roam here and there.

We are not crafting a cult around the practice of automatic writing. We are taking the physical aspect of automatic writing and attempting to construct a method to overcome the imposition of reason on narrative and the set of patterns into which words can arrange themselves. Words can arrange themselves also in patterns that the mind finds itself. Texts can reveal how the writer thinks and what its essential nature is when there is no thread of fiction or fact that the text is tracing. Beyond a point, a text needs to be about itself. Being about itself is not an obsession but a liberation. It does not have to be about anything else.

A text being about text is about a format being about itself. This means content is not ever in question. If content is not ever in question, if the format only has to be exposed in particular configurations and if that is the only value of content, then text as a format speaks only when it is about itself only. Text will be about itself only when the practice of writing is broken down and rendered into a method and not spoken of as a skill or a talent anymore.

Texts need to be primarily known for the plastic form that they give to mental states.