Quotes

Jazz Writing

“And conscious men now wrote and crossed out and careted and rewrote their compositions in laborious mimesis of the older divine utterances.”

Excerpt From: Jaynes, Julian. “The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.” Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (hmhbooks.com), 2000-08-15. Apple Books.

Often when I was writing, I felt like I had gotten into some sort of flow state, where the words were just coming and I was just jotting them down as they came, not that I was conscious so much of composition but more recording what I “heard”.

Follow that up with the best way to write is to write a rough draft where you ignore the editor in your head and dump your thoughts out, and then use your editor to shape and mold what you created. Get the stuff from the right hemisphere and edit it with the left.

We Noticed

There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common-sense interpretation of data available to the so-called normal mind. This is one such period, if you haven’t noticed already. –Robert Anton Wilson

Should Be My Family’s Motto

As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use. –William James

Outward Writing Thinking

I’m apparently writing. I ate some food late, and while I was cooking, I was pacing. I was thinking, I was writing. I seem to burning a little brightly right now; that may explain the frustration. I guess. I’m not sure about that, but maybe the burning somehow

Blogapocalypse

It was a long bad day. I was going to write today. It had such promise at the start. Ideas were just bubbling through, and for some reason the wind has shifted. I write all the time, but it’s for me, for my journal. I have to fight to

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We Noticed

Should Be My Family’s Motto

Outward Writing Thinking

Blogapocalypse