Writing To Magnetic Effect
Seems like I'm not writing as clearly or as often as I was before. Hard to find a mental space lately conducive to writing. This is good and bad. Bad cause what I write isn't as clear as I would like it to be. Good cause I'm learning how to write more clearly while spending less time writing (at least, I hope so.)
I still feel like it's important to try and write everyday. The reason for this mostly comes out of something a professional writer told me once. I was doing a lot of technical writing and having a hard time with it. I asked her what I could do to become a better writer. She said the biggest thing I could do is just try to write every day. Read a lot and write whenever possible. The same thing Steven King says in his book: "On Writing".
Sometimes when I write about something silly or off the wall, this is what's going on. It's just what I was thinking about at the time. I try not to censor what I'm writing [though of course I do at some level.]
Been doing some experimenting with different writing methods, most of them are detailed on the rhizomatic writing web site. While playing with the cut-up method I found that you can make your own cut-up horoscope by folding the cover of one of those triple x newspapers you find in hollywood. It has a picture of some woman above the fold and the week's horoscope below. I tear the cover off and fold it in such a way that the horoscopes for the signs on the left and right overlap. Sometimes the results are interesting. So... if you ever see me carrying around this paper, that's what I'm doing with it (not looking at the massage ads, honest!)
My favorite from last week's xxx horoscope cut-up:
"Be prepared to have all of your ass listen with a critical ear".
If anybody is interested in playing exquisite corpse let me know. I guess I could play online, but it seems like it would be more fun with a group of people.
The joke-y horoscope on the onion web site is still my favorite...
Thong Police
I saw something disturbing yesterday while waiting for the bus in front of the Hollywood and Highland Metro station. A young japanese woman was wearing gold lamé leg warmers with black high heels.
Fortunately, the shape of her calves totally made up for it. I wasn't staring at them.
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