why do we write

we write in order to structure our thoughts by funnelling them through language processing, which forces form onto incoherence.

We write to think in the open. Working in the open requires making oneself vulnerable

Merton saw glossolalia as a metaphor for much modern writing, which is ‘locked tight upon itself, impenetrable, unbreakable, irrefutable’. Dwelling in a closed circuit of unmeaning, this writing permits no reply. It has moved so far from the verbal energy of speech that it has lost all sense of a voice speaking to an audience. It has been written by no one to be read by no one. It is anti-language, a weary run-through of the linguistic motions. [1]