All writing is experimentation. Hemingway suggested that there is no good (first draft) writing, that all the quality emerges from rewriting and while I do not doubt that there is wisdom in this - I find that words flow most smoothly as though of their own accord; the essence of an idea, a concept, an…
Quicksilver Concepts
I appear to spend an inordinate amount of time peripatetically wandering around pondering wistful wisdoms, diverse philosophical insights and complex intuitions. Capturing or projecting mental insight and creative visualisation into written (or spoken) words is an exercise which loses a great deal in translation from the quicksilver or pure thought to the grammatical and semantic…
Philosophy of Creative Writing: Say What You Mean
There is a filter and limit imposed on thought by language and its associated cognitive grammars. The burbling brooks of pure energy and sentient quicksilver in my mind are always just out of reach. Every beautiful concept fades back into the buzz and entropy of ideas and information or energy much faster than I can…
Aspirational Creativity and Self-Improvement
There is no best, there is only better and it is a consequence of core psychological fallacies that we even assert or adhere to concepts and narratives of artistic, literary, ideological, political or existential completion and closure. It is always possible to creatively extend any system (or creative act of self-definition) by intuition and recursive…
Flying Kites
Returning to a particularly poorly-kept secret of our shared lives: no one actually knows what they are doing and everyone is improvising, making it up as they go along. We are born into a world of pre-existing stories, traditions and symbols which envelops us like a tidal wave and security blanket of meaning, identity and…
Missing Images on this Blog
If you find references to images which are missing, please comment on the post - I will tidy it up. Apologies for any inconvenience.
Ex Nihilo
Only nothing comes from nothing and only nothing is effortlessly produced...
On Tribal Narratives and Environmental Catastrophe
A core human psychological trait of small-scale tribal herding may work against the kind of global organisational unity and cooperation required to cultivate substantive industrial and economic change in the limited time still available to us.
Writing
Some generic or general things and broad principles I use to help me write and which are offered as advice you are completely free to ignore...
Latency
The act of writing is the creation of the concept and idea, the production of a thought in stored form as potential energy...
Self-Reflection
On writing for one's self...
On Writing, Rewriting and WordPress
I suspect it is a not so stealthy nor cryptic fact of the blogging culture that other than being among other things a long-form social media experience, this is where we may suspend our disbelief in the existential void we suspect to be lurking behind appearances...
