Vanderbrew

It is very difficult to write a coherent interesting anything when you’re looking at a blank page and are listening to music but the music is good and I’m into it and I had an interesting thought earlier today about creation - I mean the act of creation, not, you know, Creation. There’s a lot of very talented people in the world and I’m often very impressed by things that I read or listen to because I look at what they’ve done and think to myself, man how could I ever create this? I listen to music almost continuously while I work and I want to be able to create something as powerful and thought provoking as some of the songs I’ve been listening to lately, I guess that that’s part of the reason that I’ve started writing more lately - it’s a way to try to bring that forth because you never get better unless you practice and I want to practice more but it’s difficult to gather the energy and material to be creative at the end of the day when you’ve already spent a lot of brain juice working and creating clever solutions to fool the computer into doing what you want so sometimes it’s easier to just write in stream of consciousness because there’s a sort of lessening of expectations when you’re doing stream of consciousness and it doesn’t really need to make sense as long as it flows and it doesn’t really need to be profound unless your Faulkner and have the skill and dedication to really make something incredible and carry it on for pages and pages leaving your readers wondering where it ends but I really don’t think I need to hold myself up to that same candle and yes I do know about both punctuation and line breaks but I don’t want to use them so please just go with me here while I continue to explore this interesting writing technique which could very easily be abused but I think that I’m actually carrying it off quite well while I swing very wide of my original topic but isn’t that the greatest thing of stream of consciousness because you’re just streaming and writing what comes and it can meander and fork and return and twist and turn and loop-de-loop and it doesn’t matter as long as you’re doing it convincingly and I really hope that I am and am very impressed if you’ve stayed with me this long and think that you really deserve a reward of some sort so I’ll stop.

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