Writing skills help figure out what's going on in other parts of a brain. The process of choosing words, forming sentences, editing and revision, can be a great benefit to self understanding. So sometimes I write in a few formats. In the mid-90's I posted cultural satire/humour diatribes on Usenet, later using productofneglect.com to archive projects. Written projects vary from singular goofy ideas, like scripting a musical for mimes ("Brown Cow!"), to episodic pieces such as using an online dating profile as a creative writing platform. The Dribbler™ was/is an email-based writing project that is distributed to subscribers, it's 7th incarnation was in the form of announcements for the Freak Meet radio show. The Dribbler™ began as a heavily commentated event listing that intended to get friends out of the house in "no fun city". Later it became "letters from afar" when I relocated to Montréal temporarily, and it also served as public relations parody when producing The Dribbler™ as a college-radio-show-of-sorts. The subscribers are personal connections, and to receive The Dribbler™ I need to have shaken your fleshy hand. Subscribers also have to participate in the creative process to continue subscribing in a multi-year series. There are also a couple numbered books in hard and soft cover that are part of a trilogy I continue to work on. One of the books has been produced as an audiobook sound piece with a backing soundtrack by The Killer Wails. The books are semi-fictitious accounts of using an alternate identity to channel the spirit of a british aristocrat who in turn receives messages from an intra-dimentional galaxy that exists in Gwendolyan Space, sent twenty thousand years ago, but being received in a timeless context. Pretentious? Heck yeah! The trilogy is created procedurally, with each book following a different rule set that informs it's creation. The project is done entirely using open source software, from the image editing to writing and layout. The first book was The Arugulan Transmission, the second was The Amaranthian Testament, and the third (in production) is The Teachings Of Quinoa (Secrets Of The Transpiration).  
Tuesday evenings I used to sit in a back corner of The Waverley and hand write a letter to a friend. This may continue. |