Streaming

ITS POSSIBLE, and maybe even at times preferable, to just sit down at teh keyboard and let the stream of conscious run wild. If you're not used to doing it, if you're used to using the standard academic notecards outline rough draft final draft technique, fine, and more power to ya. I never do stream of conscious exactly.Even when I sit at the keyboard and type essasy straight out of my head, as I go along, I naturally tend to construct a logical sequence of sentences on a coherent topic, making a point. I don't think I can ever shut that down, and go total stream. But I can walk into the room, turn on the computer, and just type and write. I love and admire the funadmental artistic necessity of writing in the "first person", but I don't want to confine myself exclusively to it, out of laziness of habit. You need a fast ball, preferably a two seem, four seem, and a cutter, all three kinds, at least one breaking pitch, usually a hard slider, and probably a change up. Any decent writer shouldn't be limited by necessity to the first person point of view. If you can't write in the third person, which you can, learn how to. I get omniscient, and limited omniscient. I think a composer should at least be capable of writing in all twenty four keys, even if he or she doesn't. I dont't hink there is anything wrong with trying to make a lot of points in a single essay, or wrong to skip around from subject to seemingly haphazardly, with a subtle, hidden coherent, pattern, and logic known only to the author, but accessible to the reader, providing a willingness by said reader to think hard, go deep, and figure it out. It it not impolite to suddenly change the subject during a conversation, aeven though if somebody brings up a topic in a conversation, and you listen to everything he or she says, and without responding to the content, and make a comment which diverges in a way not according to the speakers plans and intentions, and become angry at you for having done this, well, respectfully, fuck the motherfucker. It almost seems to me that ninety percent of the time, when I initiate a conversation with a fellow human, about some intelligent, intellectual, relevant topic, like history, philosophy, politics, or science, he or she will either change the subject and start talking about him or herself, or just totally ignore what I said, no matter how interesting it is, (and I only make ineresting statements and comments IMHO), and say nothing. Okay, fine. Mybe I should be grateful that the pedestrian emmeffer has the decency at least not to bore me to death with one of his characteristically inane, vanilla, cue card cookie cutter comments. After all, amsll minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, and great minds discuss ideas. My high school classmate uttered these profound words at our graduation ceremony, and I will never forget them. I like to discuss all three, intelligently, I trust and pray. I need to comprosem, give ground, cut slack, and accede to the conversation. and comments others make, merely by listend closely and responding to them. I get that. But my response might be, indeed quite likely will be, somthing very different than my conversation partner wants or expects. I try to avoid saying to people what I think they want to hear,but rather, what I want them to hear. by not kissing ass I Might be giving up a bit of love, approval, and popularity. But quite often, what I what the person to hear happens to be what they want to, or seem to want to hear. Conversation is a skill, a cooperative activity, which of course can be competitive and often is. I am uncivilized, in that I don't like verbal amenities most of the time. Amenities are of the utmost importance, I am wrong about this. Blunt and brutally honest is what I want to be and tend to be. I try to compensate by ending every sentence with the words "ma'am" and "sir", like my parents taught me. I think everybody should do that, frankly. At my local senior center, I am the only person, I swear to God, who does. There aint a whole lotta please and thank you goin' on among the old folks, for that matter. Robert Heinlein said that amenities, verbal, social, physical, incidate the level of civilization of a society, and that another indicator is the level of cleaniless of a society's public restrooms. I hope private bathrooms aren't included. If they are, I am beyond barbaric. I am, I fear, a savage.