Genesis

Seeing what I can do with all my ideas is a bit daunting, to be honest! It is not always easy to put myself in one place and make myself open enough with the world to tell it the things I say sincerely. I will try, as that is the only way to continue in this rapidly changing world. I am who I am. Is this not enough?

Yesterday, I made a Pika account after seeing a Reddit comment from the creator. I was disappointed to see that this “free” blogging platform supported a maximum of fifty posts on the unpaid plan. But wait, most of my blogs had fewer posts than that! Maybe I could do a daily—er, weekly—writing challenge so that in one year I hit the limit?

Wait, or I can just post regularly to a normal blog and stop being weird. Duh. I keep on making challenges for myself that on reflection make no sense.

There is so much that shows us what we can do with all of this. There are more ideas than we can ever know. Let us keep on building and seeing what we can make of all this.

Putting our notes online is nice. It allows us to connect in ways that we never thought were possible. Letting others read us is a good way of connecting, almost like sending a message out to the world instead of only to one friend. Before I blogged, I used to write long text walls to people that they would not even read. Now, I can write long text walls for everyone that no one reads! Upgrade.

It is said that writing is thinking. Working out thoughts on screen is in many ways an upgraded version of working things out on paper (for non-graphical representations). The one problem with getting started on writing is that we realize how hard it is to write anything like what professional writers write, even when only selecting for their shoddier formulations. Soon as we try to write, it becomes painfully obvious that we know nothing, that it is hard to find anything to say at all.

Ah, I realized with a start, and that is exactly why we should first try to put everything out there. Then others will reprove and correct us. May the admonishments of the world elevate our lowly flesh. That is what will allow us to keep on reaching for the (figurative) stars.

There is a lot that I need to unpack, still. I have little drive to write much that goes anywhere. So when I do, I consider it to be a good day. I should just keep on going in the direction I already know is good for directing me to go somewhere. I want others to consider how we can make this all come together.

So many of our ideas make things fit together in ways that we would not expect. We just need to have the confidence to write, and then let all these writings sit around for a while. Even if something is not “appropriate” for posting, write it down and let it marinate for a while. Maybe in many years, something will come of it! We have to be willing to face ourselves, to think of what we can make of all the ideas that are still out there in the world.

I am sculpting words with my fingers. Is that not amazing? These ideas all fall out of me. I doubt that people could really enter a flow state while writing when it was too costly to do so. It would have required that they carve words into their memories instead. That made for a very different artform.

We can keep on thinking of how we can going forward in the ways that most edify us in the bombastic processes that reveal new pathways. What will come next? The world is a random seed generator for all the things that come out of my fingers. By writing, I keep on finding myself going to different places.

Creating this blog even made me more creative on the musical front. I finally installed a MIDI recording software and plugged in my girlfriend's electronic keyboard. I recorded a few tracks, and will think about what to do with them. I feel good about the things that are coming.