The Hysteric wants the hole package. The Obsessive is moored in the hole, summing parts. The Pervert swears he saw the hole thing. For the Psychotic, it’s no holes barred.
Category: Ideas
Creative Assayings which the Author is Unserious about Pursuing
How to avoid storytelling in the theatre…
Part 1 Formal strategies are very important. Processes, too, are crucial. Choose them and trust them. I found myself wanting to do something with verse. I decided to invent a line. I arrived at three iambs followed by three trochees: ,/,/,//,/,/, And that would be followed by a line consisting…
L. 12. 1 Bear Hunt Song, or rules of creative conduct revised
Be wary when it feels like a word association game. What is the form? Form is the wheel you don’t have to re-invent. If it’s truly new, it should be somewhat off-putting, something you would just as soon skip past or avoid, like a stranger who a year later is…
Assignment L.11.02: Reflection
I rarely propose assignments. I rarely do them. I do not expect an enthusiastic response. That is not the Lichtenberg way. Our way is toss off whatever it may be with only smothered hope. Followed by a smirk. And then walk away quickly. I propose a structure that may inspire…
Politeness
We’ve been watching the original Dark Shadows on Netflix Instant View. (No, we’re not hip enough to have known that Depp and Burton are doing a remake. Found that out later as I looked for links. It was truly just a desire to relive childhood memories.) As the vampire Barnabas…
Umberto Eco: thoughts
From today’s Writer’s Almanac email, two quotes from Umberto Eco: I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. …and… Perhaps the mission of those…