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  1. Homeless Lite

    Back in the ol' hometown and I decided that rather than staying in and paying for a hotel -- and rather than accepting invites to crash at friend's houses or sleeping on mom's couch -- I'd take my tent and sleeping bag and camp in a city park. It's a nice tent and a nice park, though my little tent is dwarfed by rows of RVs. But the night was quiet and calm, no rain and no noise. But it's hard to make the compromise between hotel and home. The tent's too small to do anything other than...
  2. Vernacular Manslaughter

    I was listening to the Joe Rogan Experience the other day. Yes, I’m that mainstream. For those uninitiated, you have to scroll down through this long list of comedians you don’t care about, past hunters you don't care about, past motivational people selling something, and—oh, there’s Gad Saad. This will be good. I was listening, washing dishes, having a great time… until he just had to go and say something that ruined the whole show for me. Context: his book was quite successful. He also...
  3. A Slow Start

    So this first entry is going to be a little warm-up. everyone always wantd to rush into things right? I've learned my lesson the hard way with that. so focused on the end-game then the actual journey itself. life is about getting to know things. I know as a child for me I had the feeling of constantly being rushed. everything needed to get done on someone elses time. racing against a clock that never stops. We live in a world that never stops. We never have the same moment Twice. even if its...
  4. Alone...

    I find it so funny that in a world with what 8 billion people give or take the ones we don't know about.. That people are getting to the point where we feel we are better off alone. Because it's peaceful.. Now I will just say I like my alone time just as much as the next person. I like to feel at peace and not having to worry about walking on eggshells or being afraid of what might come out of my mouth that might possibly offend someone. For the whole 26 years I have been on this planet...
  5. Wild Woman – A message to women

    Wild Woman – A message to women You know her. She lives inside of you. She is your instinct and intuition. She is the experiences and lessons of your ancestors encoded in your DNA. If you trust her, and let her live, you can be your authentic self. Hell with dogma. If you let her come to the surface, you will realize all your original gifts. Folklore is rich in the psychology of women. For this reason, I encourage you to get a copy of and read Women Who Run With the Wolves, by Clarissa...
  6. What a Year!

    As 2022 comes to an end, most of us are reflecting back on the year and others mine as well be in 2023. getting those resolutions ready to be forgotten about by the second week of January if they're lucky to make it that long. I've tried that I don't know how many times and I never felt like I was actually changing. well until this year. The beginning of the year had all the magic; I thought 2022 was gonna be the year where everything just magically turned perfectly. Between trying to be a...
  7. Amen, Sir.

    Coda from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury About two years ago, a letter arrived from a solemn young Vassar lady telling me how much she enjoyed reading my experiment in space mythology, The Martian Chronicles. But, she added, wouldn't it be a good idea, this late in time, to rewrite the book inserting more women's characters and roles? A few years before that I got a certain amount of mail concerning the same Martian book complaining that the blacks in the book were Uncle Toms and why...
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  8. Terrorism

    As far as I know, it was a Danish individual with dual citizenship who burned the Quran here in Sweden, him and an asylum seeker from Iraq. No actual Swede burned any Quran in a way that garnered so much attention, as far as I am aware. There are also conspiracy theories amongst extremists that the Swedish social agencies are stealing Muslim children. And here we are, with extremists chanting death against Sweden and dealing it because of a Dane and an Iraqi. If it wasn't serious I would...
  9. Writing From Life Experience

    Often when people hear you should write from your own life experience, they think of it on a very surface level—like if you played a lot of football you should write about football. In one sense this is what it means, or rather it's one aspect of it, but there's a much deeper, broader, and more universal aspect that this understanding misses. This is the aspect I want to write about—not the external things you've done (play some sport, live in a particular region or neighborhood, work on a...
  10. Introduction to Narrative vs Poetic Form

    Originally I was going to make this a post on the Story Structure thread (which is what made me think about it) but it’s become pretty extensive for a thread post—think I better make a blog. Here are a few excerpts from that thread by way of introduction to the subject matter: "I think fiction can be divided into 2 different kinds; Narrative and Poetic. Narrative is the kind that has clear story structure and uses all the rules/guidelines etc. I'd say genre fiction mostly leans heavily...
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  11. An Investigation into Poetic Film - The World of Objects/Nature/Animals

    I doubt many people bothered to look up my Darkmatters blog, so I'll start this by pasting in my first 2 posts on the subject of Poetic Form. I've corrected a few things, including the name of a movie I got completely wrong originally (it's Secret World, I had mistakenly written Secret Garden). After these two I'll start making original entries here at Writing Forum. So here's the first one: It's time for another dose of Cinemastudies! To set the stage for this post - bear in mind my sig at...
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  12. A study of Fires on the Plain (1959) — Director Kon Ichikawa

    I consider Fires on the Plain (1959) a brilliant example of poetic narrative. Here are 2 scenes: Long stretches of the movie contain no dialogue, only the sounds of nature and some music. The in-between stretches are dreamlike and indeed somewhat remind me of Chaplin at times, though not comedic. In fact the main character moves and walks in subtly Chaplin-esque fashion, but this is sort of ghost-Chaplin or zombie-Chaplin. It begins with a hard slap in the face. Tamura, the main character,...
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  13. The Chaos Brain?

    Conscious mind //// Unconscious mind I really like this idea, that the right brain is for dealing with chaos, trying out novel hypotheses and approaches to attempt to find patterns in it and shake it into some form of pseudo-order. Then the left brain can take over which deals with the known, with order. But below is the most spiritual explanation I've ever seen of what the right brain does without being new-agey or ridiculous. It's from the personal experience of a neuroscientist when she...
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  14. Looking into Film Noir, found some good articles

    I seem to be swinging into a Film Noir phase now. It started a month or so ago when I got Body Heat, the William Hurt movie from the 80's. I just remembered it being really stylish and visually arresting as well as suspenseful. And of course Kathleen Turner was gorgeous and smoldering hot. I liked it better than I remember liking it when I first saw it, in the 80's, and it fascinated me to the extent that I watched all the special features and discovered it's of a category called Neo-Noir,...
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