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Tuesday March 13th 2012, 6:04 pmThinking things through. Choosing the right context and metaphors to present a verse like paragraph can be daunting, and somewhat self-incriminating. I guess what I mean by that is sometimes these little works of mine are a bit melodramatic, but a lot of the times its the melodrama that can get the mind moving and the heart feeling. At least for me anyway. I also want to sort of test on how far to push phrasing, breaking down verbal expectations. I find experimenting with what is termed purpleness to be a strong mental exercise in understanding language flow. Sometimes the effect can be over the top, but quite often when it goes that direction, that was what I was after. I also find the literary criticism of saying something is too flowery a bit ludicrous, I’d much rather read something with a more poetic or esoteric mindset than not. I like the challenge of that notion, and like the way it forces a different form of thinking. Sometimes in these daily musings I’m attempting to evoke an atmosphere that goes beyond the subject I’m addressing, word paintings, and as result the verbosity gets intense. A lot of these posts are not thought out ahead of time. But instead, written from my gut, a more immediate jotting down of an idea or feeling on something from the day while exploring what makes up the reality around me. I also like going after words that sometimes have to be looked up. The english language has a large vocabulary and I like to find new words, so I try to use them. I feel since they exist, give them purpose to do so. Speaking of words, I find that occasionally I become subliminally obsessed with a word, and it will crop up often without meaning to keep using it. Sometimes I don’t realize I’ve repeated a word in that way until going back a ways into several days of writing to analyze what went down. I find this repeated word occurring curious from an analytical perspective. It raises questions in my mind: Are some words caught within our personal vocabularies for psychological reasons? Or is there some outside influence bringing it forth in regular patterns? Or is it there because our subconscious mind is trying to draw connections to disparate ideas? Or is the word coming from an inner voice that wants us to learn something from it through some form of very obscure presentation? Its this exploration that I’m after as well in these odd little posts I’m doing daily.
Choice Words For The Short Term
March 13th 2012
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I get that too but did you ever have a block for a single word that you really know but every time you need to use it, it takes an age for you to find it. I get this with the word “acronym” whenever I go in for it my brain invariably comes back with “anagram” even though I know it’s wrong. Sometimes the word will come after a minute or two (like this time) but often, no dice. Weird.
Comment by Karl 03.24.12 @ 5:07 amThat certainly happens to me a lot, but usually during conversation, making for those dreaded awkward pauses.
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‘Petrichor’: The scent of rain on dry ground. The english language came through for me on this one.
Comment by Ash 03.16.12 @ 11:54 pm