On Writing Inertia And Its Role In Calligraphy Creation

In the process of writing, whether thinking or behavior is the continuity of the previous stage’s writing habit. At the psychological level, it is associated with the writer’s insight,practical experience and the subjective will, which determines the subjectivity and empirical of the writing inertia. At the techniques level, the writing inertia is a self-perpetuating of the physiological feeling formed by a long practice of strokes and structure, it highlights the process, rather than the static diagram. In terms of “move”, it highlights the technique content and thespiritual sustenance passed out real-time, rather than a fixed equation mode. This process makes the calligraphy creation relatively predictable, it covers the writing techniques, personal accomplishment and all subjective thinking and specific practices about writing.Writing inertia, once formed, can easily bound people firmly. Therefore, writing inertia isfresh, full of vitality and positive when it’s in the flow and update, once sinked, it is rigid,harmful and negative. Creating or updating the writing inertia is a gradual process, it’s not acomplete denial from one party to the other, but the continuous distillation and improvementon the basis of previous writing habit. When this moving state form certain habit on thecalligraphy performance skills such as brushwork and composition, writing inertia will be setup.