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).
 
Some evenings, usually Mondays, I sit in
a back corner of The Waverley and hand write a letter to a
friend.
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