Michael Dean
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Michael Dean
Write of Passage’s Cohort 12 launches on the day of totality: a full solar eclipse. This is super occult, and perfectly appropriate for day 1 of a rite of passage.
What if my essays were read out loud, put on YouTube, and augmented with imagery? Maybe Spotify too? Kind of neat to imagine my body of work across multiple mediums.
Very impressed by ButterDocs, so far, mostly because it treats a paragraph as an intelligent object:
Version history: using a document-level version history is clunky. ButterDocs let’s you look back within each paragraph to find older iterations. Knowing this exists, I might be more likely to rewrite whole paragraphs.
Alternate paragraphs: you can fo
WIP words: ag, agglomerate, agglutinate, aghast, agog, agronomy, -aholic, ail, ailron, aria, adjar, akimbo, ambiguity, anagesis, androcentrism, animism, dissemination, egotistical sublime, empiricism, exegesis, explication, foregrounding, formulaic, impressionism, ambry, Osiris, amerindian, amoret, amphisbaena, amrita.
Closeted eclectic.
I imagine psychedelics to be a reset of your internal architecture, (at least from a high dose); a tabla rasa, rebuild based on your patterns and values. In some cases, a rebuild goes well, but there are unpredictable cases, where some freak thing can corrupt a re-compile. There are many cases of this: of people who are disoriented for like 6-18 mo
... See moreI’ve been noticing that paragraphs are stronger when they close on showing instead of telling. The power of closing on an image is that it requires reader visualization and interpretation. It’s active, it’s open-ended, and it creates a draw to the next paragraph in search of some kind of resolution.
Telling on the other hand is logical, revealing,
... See moreon writing and EA: flow
Can’t anticipate what life after kids will be like. Feels like the important thing is to not cling to the specific of your pre-kid life. You can’t expect certain habits or certain parts of your life to continue through exactly as it. Be open to the details, and just bring the same spirit, and the things that matter will find new form.
Literally doesn’t just mean “not figuratively,” but it means “of the text.” When you say literally, what you’re actually saying is: “regardless of what is spoken or done, we should refer to what is put down in writing at the source.”