One of my co workers brought back some star sand for me from a beach in Taiwan. The star shaped grains of sand are actually tiny exoskeletons of foraminifers, a marine protozoa. These creatures lived on the ocean floor, but their skeletons are washed up by the tide. Walking along a beach like that, you …
Strange things
I've been listening to Orlando, by Virginia Woolf, and had heard a bit about it so I knew the main character transformed into a woman--but I had expected it to be a sort of reincarnation thing. As it happens, he just wakes up one morning to be a she with no explanation given. And, I …
Playing at crazy
If someone pretended to be crazy for too long, would they become crazy? The same with anything... to truly pretend, you must get inside the headstate of someone. If you're there too long, would you get stuck? I wonder if people like Alex Jones and David Ike and so on, played at it for too …
Skip to the end
This is now my writing strategy. I've been thinking 'what's next?' for a long time, and I don't know what's next but I do know what the end is. SO... why not just, go there? So I will, and see what happens. I can always insert more stuff later.
What approach to take…
If I'm trying my best to make sure whatever I write is amazing, and the best possible thing I can produce at my current skill level, it's going to take a lot longer. If I write something quicker and put less worry and focus into it, it will be a lot quicker but less quality. …
Jonas David 