The Writers' Circle

Ok it's daftness but now it's out I don't hear the voices anymore.

How can you not have ideas ? (Excerpt)
A short lecture on the subject of experimental creative writing.

(And it would be good if it could be read then forgotten,- but picked up in a subliminal way- like seeing an unusual dog from the corner of your eye when you're at a pond feeding the ducks - then HEY PRESTO ! It's a 30 foot snarling demon later that night in a dream.)


How can your mind be blank ? I don't believe you. Are you dead?

"Oh I don't have a very good imagination. My mind just goes blank," you might say. PAH! Nonsense!

Take a blank sheet of paper and at the top write the word "BLANK." 
No blank sheet of paper anymore.. Then think of a word beginning with "B", one beginning with an "L", one that starts with an "A" and so on.

For example:

B - Buttock
L - Limpid
A - Adenoid
N - Nose
K - Kaleidoscope

Ooh we're filling up that page now! In turn any of these new words can be processed in the same way. Take " Nose."

N - Nautical
O - Ostrich
S - Saxophone
E - Epilepsy

Or picking nose again as an example do the same thing this time make up words that rhyme:-

N - Neat
O - Obsolete
S - Street
E - Eat

You could play this game indefinitely until you had a paper mountain with a hundred thousand different words on it.

But that would be INSANE.
A key to creativity is making connections. Your brain will strive to do this anyway in order not to be INSANE.

Snap, crackle, pop! Your mind will cast up images, memories, worlds that will relate to the fresh rhyming words you have just made up :

I was washed and clean and my clothes were NEAT.
I had a halfpenny piece which was OBSOLETE.
I gave it to a beggar sitting in the STREET.
And he couldn't buy a pie to EAT. 

(..This, you understand is only a very basic example of what can be done.)

You now have 4 lines inspired by rhyming words that came from the letters that spelled the simple word "nose."

By having an open and observing mind and by applying, practicing and perfecting these techniques an intrepid adventure in experimental creative writing begins.

So, unless you are a shapeless envelope of air hanging in an impossible void or unless you are dead.- Your mind cannot be blank.

(Actually people who meditate can make their minds go blank but it takes a lot of practice and is much harder than thinking.)

So assemble those cluttered thoughts. Make them into stories, songs, poems philosophies and jokes. The more you play these mental games the more fantastic your ideas can become! Make any first indentation upon that virgin parchment. It can always be shaped and modified. 

Blank page? Blank mind? Pah!.

NOW....forget everything you've just read.