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just as the hearts of others deals with…love, sex, and death…the new thing i’m working on seems to be an attempt to view those same themes through…an awakening sense of spirituality…
don’t run…this is an exploration…not a sermon…
so…acknowledging that i am by no means the first person to consider this approach to telling a story…and that the estimation of…the level and/or presence of my talent…is untested…at best…let’s add some context to to the discussion…
i first came across this combination of themes in William Burrough’s Cities of the Red Night trilogy…The Western Lands in particular…
it is here that he most fully describes his Seven Souls concept…
a concept inspired by Norman Mailer…
how does any of this inform what i am working on…not much…except…it forces the question…what is the nature of the human soul…where does it come from…and where does it go…
as a man who doesn’t believe in heaven or hell…and because i’m obsessed with questions of mortality…i’ve spent a long time thinking about this…the new story is, in part, an attempt to illuminate some of my thought…
which brings us to language…because it is the foundation of thought…i’ve had to expand my lexicon in order to expand my thinking…
so…in no particular order…some new words, and their meanings…as an introduction to some of the new themes i am working on…
noun
the belief in the existence of one or more divinities or deities. There is also a narrower sense in which theism refers to the belief that one or more divinities are immanent in the world, yet transcend it, along with the idea that divinity(s) is/are omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent.
noun
a doctrine that identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God.
noun
the belief in or worship of more than one god.
noun
is the “hatred of God” or “hatred of the gods”. In some varieties of polytheism, it was considered possible to inflict punishment on gods by ceasing to worship them.
(thanks to mr Murray for providing the impetus for my research)
two things…
first…i joined this group…book-in-a-week…the objective…to write as many pages as you can in a week…you set daily page goals…and report on your progress…their motto…BIC HOK TAM…butt in chair, hands on keyboard, typing away madly…i’m optimistic…here’s why…
this adds accountability to my process…at least one week a month i have to produce or fail…and then stand by the results…
i enjoy the solitary nature of writing…yet…i’ve always been frustrated by my inability to connect to a community of writers…there is a long list of reasons why this has not happened…most of them are mine…book in a week is my latest attempt to get over it…
second…
this week at my new job…i worked with this temp…a 21 year old serbian immigrant…a good kid…hard worker…diligent…enthusiastic to…do the work…newly engaged…fascinated with dubai architecture…and tricked out cars…
and he knows the price tag on everything…and the value of nothing…you can be sure he will turn up somewhere in my writing…
i’ve been unemployed 4 months…not coincidentally…there’s been an explosion of activity here…notice that did not contain the words…writing…or, more important…work…
and it’s not because no work is getting done…here is a list of everything i’m working on…but haven’t told you about…
a short story involving characters from the first bsb book…who knows…maybe it’s a first chapter…i am planning on submitting it…here…or maybe here…who knows…i hear Shoun is plotting a new publishing ad(venture)…the point is…for the first time i am writing something with intent to submit…
the very early stages of what i hope will grow into my first novel…partially growing out of the seed of the above mentioned short story…
the continued saga of Del, Mountain, John, and Nighttrain…the artwork Justin did for it…makes me want to raise my game up…
for some reason, that’s just not enough for me…i’ve got something else up my sleeve…just as soon as i can clear one or two of these other works off my plate…
all of this…honest to god, it may sound like bragging…but it feels like whining…is to underline a point…two points really…
first…i start working at my new job tomorrow…so…you may see a slow down in…activity…here…to be honest, i’m looking forward to it…
second…you will see an uptick in posts regarding…my continued affair with writing…
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