Category: Wonderings
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Oh Look!
How nice, another two blogs for Yell’s Knowledge Centre. It’s so weird seeing my stuff on there. I have used up hours of my life correcting Knowledge Center to Knowledge Centre and vice versa for US/UK application. So, we have one on the anatomy of a blog post – the individual pieces that make up…
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Oulipo and Constraints in Creativity
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit… the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution. Igor Stravinsky You know how I’ve been getting off on how restrictions in writing actually help you create more freely? Sometimes you stumble across something that…
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Multiple Meaningfulnesses
Interesting – the three most basic classes of discourse: Locutionary describes the literal words you say Illocutionary describes the effect you intended those words to have Perlocutionary describes the actual effect they had Anything you say has multiple meaningfulnesses. Not meanings, although it has multiples of those too. MEANINGFULNESSES. Which is why it is possible to discover…
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The Importance of Rituals
I’ve come to realise that I need my rituals. The stupid, inconsequential little passings of time that add up to a life and a personality. Filling in my five-year question-a-day diary. Slow writing. Browsing a thesaurus. Making lists. Crunching up words I like and putting them back together for fun. Without these things I’m just a brain driving a body.…
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Truthers
And so it was, in the first pale hours of a year just barely opening its eyes, that minds were altered and perspectives surgically skewed. Seismic, not the gradual drip drip drip that leads to a natural shift. An abrupt CRUNCH of horrible realisation: disillusionment extreme. Not fair, not right, not just – not anything. Truth. Whether you can bear…
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