98. cont'd

The title of this Goya is "Aun Aprendo," which translates as "I am still learning."

With that in mind:

When do you put your thumb on the scale?

98.

And urgent.

(0)

> tap tap <

Hello?

This thing on?

Ahem.

22.

And howdy: I believe the narrative voice has arrived.

16,

At this point I literally don't know one thing that's not on the page and I'm not worrying about decisions or consequence.

13.

True: if you are put on a plain in nature (or, I suppose, a plane in geometry) and told to walk in a straight line, eventually you will walk in a circle.

I think writers might fear that fact but they also know it's true. If you put one sentence in front of another, how long does it take for the story you're producing to veer off that line you drew? Like: two sentences.

The extra worry is that every decision you make is actually a step in yet another different direction.

Today's theory: sometimes it's nice to just go on a walk and see what happens.

The Shallows, cont'd. (3)

...our unconscious thought processes don't engage with a problem until we've clearly and consciously defined the problem. If we don't have a particular intellectual goal in mind...unconscious thought does not occur.

-- Nicholas Carr, The Shallows, p. 119

My brain has been playing that language in a loop for a day now.