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Constraint. Limit your work in an artificial way. It will magnify and focus your thinking. By way of a silly (and classic) illustration: try writing in a way
by gorgoiler 6y ago
Constraint.
Limit your work in an artificial way. It will magnify and focus your thinking.
By way of a silly (and classic) illustration: try writing in a way that forbids inclusion of that common Roman glyph found prior to F and following D.
(And actually think about it! Don’t just opt for words you found in a book of synonyms!)
- logical_proof 6y agoI know what you did and it’s fantastic.
- zamfi 6y ago:D
- quickthrower2 6y agoAha, and you did it too! Anothr way to do it is shortn words into a sort of slang.
- gsbraitberg 6y agoWow, impressive.
- I_complete_me 6y agoJust "Wow" would do it!
- sudhirj 6y agoI know a book was brought to print that didn’t have the glyph, but I can’t bring it to the front of my mind. Would concur strongly with this. I try to do this by cutting down laptop utilisation. Play with kid or watch TV in the place of non-productivity. Stick to 4 hours a day of work.
- lazyant 6y agoAs a variation of this for a sci-fi story: modify just a thing (dying at 30 - Logan - or at 200 ...) (I did it too, woo hoo!)
- gorgoiler 6y agoThat’s a fantastic point about science fiction. There are two things I find exciting about sci fi: the space opera and the morality stories. Science fiction was initially attractive because of the former, but the way the morality stories made me think about the world around me is what’s made me want to delve deeper and deeper into the classics. Concrete examples: The Mote In God’s Eye on xenophobia and the seemingly intractable problem of diplomatic entente between nation states where one or both are threatened with survival. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress on revolutionary colonial politics. Speaker for the Dead on the corruption of ecologies that we fundamentally don’t understand. Real literature has never felt accessible to me. Sci-fi gave me a joy of reading that Candide never did.
- cl42 6y agohaha, amazing work, guys! I am so happy with this. (me tooooo)
- HomeDeLaPot 6y agoA common complaint about this sort of thing is that it's just too artificial. Not many folks can actually find fun in this sort of thing. It is difficult to cut that most common symbol from your vocabulary of glyphs, and it brings small joy at its finish. It ruins your writing flow. But, not having had my own try at it, my cynicism is possibly without justification.