The Chessboard and the Naked Man

"Every time I sit down to write, I am a beginner... I sit down to write something that I do not know what it will be, and I write, specifically, to know what it is, what I am writing, and only I can write it, alone and no one else. That is why you sometimes see me spending whole hours, and days, searching for the right word and the formulation of a phrase. I do not want to repeat things that have been said, even if I am the one who said them, but unfortunately, this is what happens sometime...