Hello hello, and welcome to our now 13th (XIIIth) writing club update. My dictionary explains that the meaning of “thirteen” is:

One more than twelve.

Truly words to live by. Shuffling around my books for a more inspirational bit of numerology, I find the chapter in Mervyn Peake’s “Titus Groan” book, wherein we’re introduced to the outsider “Keda” who is to be a wet-nurse for the titular prince of Gormenghast. I’m not sure how that relates to what we’re doing here, but it’s a pretty weird, and cool, book.

Speaking of weird and cool…!

As always, all are extremely welcome to participate in the writing club, regardless of whether they’re in the list above.

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    […] I avoid committing to releasing anything to avoid it becoming another deadline in my life. If I lose the motivation to work on it, I will take a hiatus and get back to it if and when I am ready.

    I want to bottle this feeling up and inject it into my veins.

    The project is essentially to write up a coherent picture of the observable, physical world (from where I am sitting and looking out the window) and their associated physical processes.

    Am I understanding correctly, that this project is about writing about your very detailed and researched perspective of the world–from like your writing desk?? That sounds SO COOL. Is your subjective position a part of the project, or just a starting point? To me, this feels like an empirical version of what some meditation feels like.

    Thanks so much for sharing what you’re working on. It’s really fascinating.

    • solbear@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Is your subjective position a part of the project, or just a starting point?

      I have no real prior knowledge of biology, neuroscience, psychology or anything related to this, and I don’t want to include anything I would need to research from scratch. So I guess the starting point is to draw a line from my eyes to whatever I see first :) Then I will attempt to keep topics as separate as possible so they could be enjoyed on their own, and where a topic is completely dependent on some prior knowledge from another part of the book, it will come after and with references to which parts would need to be read and understood first. Or that’s the initial plan anyway