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i loved every second i was reading your first response to the writing club prompt. writing as an extension of thought and wanting to think of something new is something i can relate to all too well. the mundane is so hard to write about, but i'm glad to find someone who finds beauty in it, the inherent surrealism of day-to-day life, especially in this day and age.
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Hi. I wrote a response for the first prompt: https://saddleblasters.neocities.org/muse/
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saddleblasters
2 months ago
I have a button at the bottom of my homepage: https://saddleblasters.neocities.org
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tehuan
2 months ago
your response is so wonderful ! i definitely agree that writing is so important as communication and a mode of understanding, and i loved hearing what you had to say abt it :] adding you to the members page now !
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saddleblasters
2 months ago
Thank you so much for reading, and thanks for coming up with this club. It's a really nice way to connect people
saddleblasters was updated.
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Also I added a (very simple) 88x31 button for the site, in case you happen to be a button person. For now it's at the very bottom of the homepage
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I'm sending out the first edition of SADDLENET sometime tonight (my time -- so morning for most of you). Send me an email before then (see the bottom of my website) and I'll add you to the mailing list.
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a quote i really resonated with was this: "one yearns for a new kind of pain, new kinds of ambiguities, that force the mind to confront other possibilities." sometimes, other people succintly put into words an idea you had no clue on how to capture. i really enjoyed your insight- and your commentary on mou tun-fei intrigues me. i never really thought about creation through abstract theory, but it sounds magical.
creation on the foundation of interpretation and original thought- i think it ties everything together well. writing as a conduit for understanding the workings of one's mind and ideas. thank you for sharing. i feel seen through you. ♥ can't wait to see your response next week!
Thank you so much for reading! When I wrote that yesterday, I had just finished Kazushi Hosaka's "Plainsong", which has character he mentions that as a kid he wanted to be a novelist, but that he gave up on it to become a filmmaker because writing always has to be about something, whereas when making a film you can just turn the camera on when talking to friends and let it captures what it captures.
The paradox was that Hosaka's novel somehow also manages to feel like a camera dropped into the lives of its characters, capturing glances at their daily routines and snippets of their conversations without making it about anything. Seeing him so successful at it makes me wish I could be a camera — some kind of psychological camera, that captures more than just light, that somehow meditates without judging.
I read your response as well, and you mention that your writing has shifted from fantasies about other lives to more directly confronting reality. But I don’t think there needs to be a conflict between the two. I think that in recording and contemplating our reality, we can still meditate on our fantasies and why they exist inside of us. The contrast between fantasy and reality can allow us to look at both closer.
This is one of those things that we could both spend thousands of words writing about, so I’ll leave at that for now. Anyways, it just passed midnight here. I’m not sure what time zone you’re in, but happy new year!