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 Perspectives on the creative world, <br/>from a certified charlatan iWeb 3.0.4 http://www.opprecht.net/Coaching/MAIN/Entries/2011/9/15_Coherence.html 28c50607-f806-48ec-94dd-f7a72435c676 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:05:24 -0400 <a href="http://www.opprecht.net/Coaching/MAIN/Entries/2011/9/15_Coherence_files/Windows.Papers.2971-filtered.jpg"><img src="http://www.opprecht.net/Coaching/MAIN/Media/object001_1.jpg" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:399px; height:304px;"/></a>fümmsböwötää <br/> böwörötääzää<br/><br/>Do you ever tire of the need to be coherent? Are there times when you find yourself spouting nonsense, gibberish, syllables that only a baby would say? It happens to me more often than I usually admit. Times like that, it feels like the conventions of language are nothing more than a fascist plot.<br/><br/>de do do do, de da da da<br/><br/>Anyone who's taken a writing class from me knows that I am a big fan of automatic writing. Put the pen to the paper and commence. Do not pay attention to meaning, grammar, syntax, logic or anything else. Just write. Keep writing, and don't stop for anything. <br/><br/>There is tremendous value in letting the brain spew, letting the soul vomit forth. It’s creative. It’s freeing. And it’s surprisingly cathartic.<br/><br/>How do you feel about coherence? Does it feel as though the requirement to make sense with every utterance is a straitjacket on a sane person? Have you even thought about it? <br/><br/>Being beyond the lamp holder has a paragon of perfidity around I bungled the winesap.<br/><br/>Your challenge: Say, write, or do three things today that make absolutely no sense. Sure, we all do at least that many senseless things every day, but this is different. This is conscious and intentional. Provocative, even. Do them, say them, or write them, knowing at the time they are nonsense. If you need inspiration, read Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky, stare at a Dali painting, listen to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.<br/><br/>You may find it liberating, you may find it disturbing, but regardless of how you feel about it, if it draws you out of your comfort zone, that itself is a good thing. Let me know how it goes. And consider the collusion between mice believer marmalade confiugure.<br/><br/>[First quote above is from Kurt Schwitters, the second from The Police. After that, it’s just me.]<br/><br/><br/>