Unspeakable grimness made of media, culture and (un)reality
When you write a post that has over 500 words… the first thing you should do is to consider if you could make it shorter. Cut at least one hundred words if you can.
Make sure if you really need that introductory paragraph. If you really need to introduce one paragraph with another or if isn’t the whole text just an introduction to a conclusion, where in fact you doubt your own idea. If I’m talking about your text, that probably means you force yourself to write, so… stop it.
In today’s pop culture more and more people are so keen on technology. Especially various mobile devices. They keep talking about the ones they have, the ones they would like to have and the ones that they would have if they were rich.
The immortal discussions about music, literature and cinema have been strongly ‘mortalized’ by fascination of technology and suddenly almost everyone started to introduce themselves as a fan of chosen phone producer or mobile operating system.
We know all these visions of the future cities. Flying cars, enormous billboards, milions of neons, cell-like single flats, fast-food bars, which float straight to your window to provide you Chinese food as fast as possible. And automation everywhere, in everything.
Although is it really a possible scenario? And how should we even speculate about this? Or on what terms? In my opinion, the keyword here is usability. Flying vehicles are not usable for many reasons. One is price and the other is simply… driving it. Do you imagine car crash in the air?
As you can see, few things have changed. Maybe not so few in fact, but… Penguin disappeared and the windmill is… back? Not really, because it have never been here. It was created few years ago, in very dark times, when I started my blog on some crappy, Polish platform. The name and the logo was with me all the time, also when I (re)started blogging on Google’s Blogger.
The original plan was to make an English version of that blog, but it ended up as a plan and never happened. Grim Pancakes appeared suddenly and just started being my priority for a long time. Then, here and on my Polish blog, I was feeling like it started to lack something. Maybe that was my creativity, but I think needed really >my< symbol. Now I really feel like home.
We have already considered the impossibilities of time travel, assuming consistency and singularity of time which in fact is not absolute and fully consistent. Then what about following the idea of personal timeline’s of every single person?
Let’s assume that Jack made his journey, changed past and got back to the changed reality of his time. No paradox occured, physical time is not any power holding reality together, Jack’s chronology is not the same as everyone else’s, for everyone have their own, and the general chronology is something like an average of it all.
As you can see, I once again started to write about writing. Then why shouldn’t I give you a piece about it? I mean, about writing about writing.
I think that writing about writing is always some kind of a trap. You are analyzing your way of writing, often giving some advices, including the ones that you should obey yourself, but you don’t. And what now?
I guess that every author have faced this horrible moment, when there’s a whole text, ready to publish, but… What about the title? How to express its idea in so few words? I usually have the title first, just before I even start to write. It has few disadvantages, but on the other hand at least I don’t have to worry about entitling a finished piece.
The real issue is when you have idea, a concept of the whole article and you just start to write, thinking that the title will ‘pop up’ during the process. And if does, then God bless you, but it usually makes it even harder to find the proper one. Especially when you have few ideas, but you are unable to chose one.
Do you know that feeling? When after a time of some kind of creative drought, you suddenly get inspired so much, that it simply takes you away and leaves you almostly confused with ideas exploding in your mind on and on? I guess that it has happened just now.
It actually makes me remember as I started blogging, when I didn’t really care what I write while it was what I actually wanted to. It also makes me think that putting it to schema (one post a week) does in fact some harm to you who might not like my texts, and to me who might not be happy with being in that schema.