Keep It Regular
Can things which seem unrelated to each other be in some way a yin and yang binary? We set up arbitrary systems where we have the energy run off of one action spill into the self-created engine of another action. Could we…
It is funny that you sometimes work out the techniques that you need to navigate a certain maze, and then you look at and fail to see that it is actually the solution that you needed to navigate all the mazes, because…
If a story were an engine I would be able to listen to it and tell you where the error in the running was located. Is it the narrative drive belt? Are the paragraph pistons not firing? Is the idea fuel not…
There are swings and roundabouts, or ups and downs. You have to learn to navigate them. Some people get dunked under and dried out regularly, and they never learn to read the compass, or read the map, or learn the stars, so…
I suppose you might say that I am clearing the decks of old stuff in terms of publishing, so that when I am finished with what I am currently writing I will have a real production line in place. Although with how…
When you reach the top of the mountain you still can’t fly, right? Whatever steps you have taken there are more to take. Each pinnacle is a platform for translation to a higher state. When you start to think that there is…
There is something very rewarding in putting together someone else’s book, or in helping someone else to debug their writing. It is often a great way to handle any bugs you may be experiencing yourself – find someone with an issue, and…
I know nothing about cross-training – I really don’t. But I was sitting here and I was thinking about how all the people who are creative and training in one discipline should be able to take the skills that they learn in…
It is interesting watching something you watched a lot of before, but didn’t quite get to the end of, when you start to approach the end. It is especially hard when it is something that has been consistently good for most of…
The digital memory is a hardwired failure of lack of differentiation between the important and the trivial. Things that you mentally backgrounded years ago suddenly get chopped up a sprinkled over the landscape in which you are currently moving. It is psychotic.…