channeling greatness

CHANNELING GREATNESS

This is the expanded form to an answer I had to a minions comment.  It might not interest all of you and honestly has zero application towards survivalism, but every once in a great while I must tentatively dip a pinky toe in the pool of Other Subjects when something strikes my fancy.  Usually every subject I endeavor to cover has at least something to do with the not so distant Big Squishy.  The behavior of my neighbors  would highlight anthropological tendencies.  My experiences in a retail establishment might underline the direction of the economy.  This article has no link.  It’s only purpose is to amuse me and, at best, not bore you should you choose to read it.  This is about my writing style and its peculiarities.  So, if you desire, stop right there and go visit an economic collapse blog that uses the bible to prove the UN is going to take over the US by using black helicopters shooting ray guns which are fueled by Beelzebub’s rectal discharge.

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I won’t even try to piss you off by pointing out that our current Christian bible is merely one in a long line of Sun God religions and most of what everyone gasps about in shock and awe as far as prophases are merely astrological in nature and blatant rip-offs of pagan religions which came prior.  See how nice I am?  But let’s jump right into my writing style.  The above few paragraphs?  I didn’t think about writing them-they just happened.  This is me, through no prior planning or effort but merely after eons of pounding the keyboard with one finger pecking and hunting, channeling my subconscious.  The original minion comment, which was NOT the first in a line of several similar, took me to task for inappropriately interjecting humor while writing on a serious matter.  I responded as above.  I didn’t disagree with him.  When you are desperately trying to follow the thread of an idea, the last thing you need is some goomba throwing the odd joke or mocking barely pertinent point in the middle.  And long giant rambling sentences certainly don’t help out anyone’s sense of righteous indignation.  So I’m certainly the last to deny that these serious accusations hold any merit. 

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Now, I’ll readily admit that extra long, grammatically incorrect run-on sentences of excruciating length were in fact something I consciously engaged in.  I love the damn things and for no other reason than they were a mere amusing whim at the beginning.  Ever since I started writing, which would be in public school, I’ve tickled my fancy with them.  How much of it was a minor rebellion in opposition to compulsory work I cannot say.  I just can’t stop using them.  Every other facet of my writing style, however, has either accidental and/or unconscious.  When I first started writing on survivalism it was 1991 and I wanted to start a ‘zine.  I had attempted abortive writing projects before but until I came under the deadly influence of Wife #2 ( the children’s mother ) and her soul crushing relationship ( albeit packaged in a deceptively attractive form involving giant bosoms ) I had no need to apply too much effort into the endeavor.  She made writing a mental rescue effort on my part.  Bless her heart. 

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When I started out writing, I was atrocious at it ( I had never seriously tried while writing in school-it was an interest that lacked the necessary discipline ).  I was in the “why use a paragraph when you can succulently convey the information in a short sentence or two” school.  What I didn’t realize at the time was that I was not only starting out at a level of large ignorance, I was also just parroting what I had read.  I didn’t have any original ideas, nor had I the first clue as to how to analyze what I had read.  So, yes, when I use that insult against others I too was guilty of the same early on.  The difference between them and myself was that I wasn’t trying to make money on the effort ( just trying to break even on printing and mailing costs ) and I slowly but surely bettered myself.  I went from a student sharing his notes on a lecture to, I fondly hope, having something to contribute.  Now I can gleefully take your monetary offerings with no qualms.  Because I am able to evaluate and process information now, analyzing data and adding to it in helpful ways ( again, I trust that is correct.  It is somewhat difficult to self-evaluate ). 

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This was no overnight process, nor can I claim any secrets to acquiring it.  It just kind of happened.  One year I’m struggling to fill up several pages everyday, each sentence an effort, and the next I’m “zoning out” at the keyboard and having few problems knowing what to write.  It just sort of happens now.  All I need is a sentence as a article subject, or a chapter outline of several words each for a book, and my subconscious kind of does its thing.  But don’t think this is just an easy and lazy way to churn out a blog.  No.  This process also does something besides writing effortlessly.  It connects critical thoughts together.  Something I was having problems doing consciously.  It is like when you can’t remember something and you stop thinking about it, and suddenly the original answer pops up out of the middle of no where.  And that is a lot of my writing.  I can assemble puzzles much better without conscious effort.  I let that sexy gray blob in my melon do it ( this was meant to be humorous.  Obviously I am relaxing one part of my brain and allowing the neurons in another part to work more efficiently ).

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Of course, he is a playful imp, isn’t he?  He likes to crack wise, shoot strawberries, slaughter sacred cows and channel Loki.  He is a bit of a prankster, and one is wise to let him roam unrestricted.  Else how does the magic happen?  I am the exact opposite of a student.  I don’t read a book and make notes and write a report.  My process is far more organic.  And you get a bit of a messy appearance in my presentations.  I hope it is worth it, in the end.

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