New Year
Every year involves something of a re-tool and a re-think. You need to keep it fresh. Being an artist of any kind entails growth, and this is something I am always focused on. Sometimes it an be just giving yourself a new…
Tag: regular movement
Last Thought Of 2019
Intention without planning equals wishful thinking. Planning without action is busywork. Marry all three things up and you cooking. Sometimes, rolling along the creative line, you forget about the other things and you have all this great stuff you created and no…
the hatched, the watched
we are a poem truncated outdated somewhat hated but still read we are an earworm stuck in your head picking up the let drop thread keep a record of everything said we are surveillance footage we are fruit of the all-seeing eye…
On The Treadmill
Part of the plan is to identify all the moving parts. Part of the plan is to move each moving part towards completion. You change the plan as necessary, and you continue to keep it all rolling along. Consistency is the watchword.…
Layered Reality Players
Layered Reality Players. Platformational Reality Wars. One hack-rig is trying to work at your space, while you work at theirs. Who can write code fast enough to penetrate and unseat the other player? Tom has a Burroughs-Gysin Cut-Up Machine appended to his…
Hot Flowers
A hot flower bloomed from Reality Establishment Central Office. Glass shards like windblown seeds carried out on a sudden gust of air stung skin and blinded eyes, and was followed by the scent of burning. Naire lay there with her chest become…
Understanding Language
Words are important. The anatomy of language is something it is vital to understand for a writer.How do you find a voice? Well, you listen to yourself, and as you develop it develops. But how do you best translate that onto the…
simply complexifying
something simple or something complex trying to solve the same problem by routes that bear fruits and lessons found in dead ends we are making friends with our future selves to take those dreams off the shelves the things we must confront…
singing the same tune
are you jazz conversation with blue note soul? are you digging around to find your role? strutting down the street with a kink in your roll do you have Hooker Boom, and James Brown steps? Jackson moves and Franklin RESPECT? can you…
Expanding The Horizons, Expanding The Parameters
Do you ever sit there and try and dream up new forms of writing? Give yourself rules by which you must operate in order to challenge your writing? My friend came up with a 434 word limit for flash fiction, and it…