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 someday.
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