Bleeding the Brain
May 4th 2006 11:14
Bleeding the Brain: An Excercise in Creative Thought
How does one get one's juices flowing when writing?
I like to write a small passage to get myself in mood. What I do is let one word flow into the next, words trigger off ideas which trigger off words, which trigger off ideas etc... In the end you will have a short piece which in itself makes no sense (thats OK), but hopefully will have loosened up your mind enough to begin the process of writing. I like to call it 'bleeding the brain'.
Here's one I did a little while ago, whilst pretending to enjoy my call centre job...
"Walking into doorway, sipping silver, glint in my minds eye, choosing chalk outlines for a rainy day. Hand up, head down, puppet strings from above, jiggle and dance me in cosmic absolution. My pain is purely physical. Flutter, play of light, breeze on my cheek, a maze I must walk through, spirit beings of breathe and embrace. Heat 140bpm, trance version, drifting, pounding me into dust lust: pelvic thrust of the earth, I am son of sun. No sense but non-sense, signifiers scatter, like scared desert animals. Shock jock lock of modern minds; the wrong gravitas, the wrong moon. Tiny Russian dancers spin and twirl in patterns of chocolate which melts into my ear and trickles to brain waves.
Release the leash, let me be free, clang-a-clang-clang-a-clang-clang. Mind image of lover, her voice, her shrill whispering eyes. Electric doubt, loss of footing: I'm falling up. Mass generalisations, nations in a word, pocket-sized politics, a new pair of jeans, a new opinion.
Battery hen # P46-1514-31 staring blankly, yet he knows more than masks of erudition. Mind affluent flowing freely, I'm cancer ridden. Lurid, lucid, loser. Thankyou for calling."
I'm not insane, but needless to say I didn't sell many phone packages that day.
Try it out. Sometimes you come up with turns of phrase that you may think interesting. Worst comes to worst you may just need some therapy.
Happy hunting.
I like to write a small passage to get myself in mood. What I do is let one word flow into the next, words trigger off ideas which trigger off words, which trigger off ideas etc... In the end you will have a short piece which in itself makes no sense (thats OK), but hopefully will have loosened up your mind enough to begin the process of writing. I like to call it 'bleeding the brain'.
Here's one I did a little while ago, whilst pretending to enjoy my call centre job...
"Walking into doorway, sipping silver, glint in my minds eye, choosing chalk outlines for a rainy day. Hand up, head down, puppet strings from above, jiggle and dance me in cosmic absolution. My pain is purely physical. Flutter, play of light, breeze on my cheek, a maze I must walk through, spirit beings of breathe and embrace. Heat 140bpm, trance version, drifting, pounding me into dust lust: pelvic thrust of the earth, I am son of sun. No sense but non-sense, signifiers scatter, like scared desert animals. Shock jock lock of modern minds; the wrong gravitas, the wrong moon. Tiny Russian dancers spin and twirl in patterns of chocolate which melts into my ear and trickles to brain waves.
Release the leash, let me be free, clang-a-clang-clang-a-clang-clang. Mind image of lover, her voice, her shrill whispering eyes. Electric doubt, loss of footing: I'm falling up. Mass generalisations, nations in a word, pocket-sized politics, a new pair of jeans, a new opinion.
I'm not insane, but needless to say I didn't sell many phone packages that day.
Try it out. Sometimes you come up with turns of phrase that you may think interesting. Worst comes to worst you may just need some therapy.
Happy hunting.
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