Rilles

Swedish Leo.

Connotation in creative writing is more or less about how associative the sentence youre writing is. The stronger you can connote the more load-bearing the sentence will be, however the caveat is if you stack too many associations at once you might lose the listener/reader. Which is why certain sentences should be less associative. Levels of Connotation Level 1 : neutral “A Situation in the city” Level 2 : “Christmas in the city” Level 3 : “Christmas in NYC” Level 4 : “Christmas in NYC, 2005” Level 5: “I hate Christmas, it reminds me of NYC in 2005” — notice that more connotative our word is the more interconnections your mind can make much easier, Christmas is just one example, you can think of any word with strong connotation, it doesnt even have to be a noun.

In this journal I will share what I have learned and what I am learning about creative writing, I am not an author, I write poetry and music, but I do love deconstructing writing and prose. Hopefully you can learn something too, or maybe I can learn something from you, feel free to comment all you want, no restrictions.

History is just new people making old mistakes. - Sigmund Freud

I call this the Ontological Firewall, proud of that concept, it basically means that the information can be correct but the ontology is skewed, so even if youre precise with your tone and wording the recipient can be so ontologically different it sounds like nonsense.

More than you know, but its not God lol. More akin to a new level of the noosphere.

more like a collective hivemind of yapping

Theres no ”good” hobby, even self-actualizers one day become wormfood dont they, just enjoy life.

Because without time you cant be aware of distinction, so things must change by definition, and you must change because youre identified with form, and eventually you change so much that you end.

The negative health aspects of alcohol are so bad that there isnt a single organ that doesnt take tremendous damage over the course of your life, when youre 20 its easy to be happy go lucky because your body is a system in its early strongest phase, but when youre older youre gonna feel it.

Ah! Alcohol , the queen of delusion, glad shes not in my life anymore.

Well if the light is at the top and light is consciousness then probably somewhere at the bottom where the dogs piss.

Im beginning to hate the word consciousness, Im just gonna throw it out the window and hope it hits a lightpole.

Higher consciousness is just more meta-reflection ability, its not a dick-measuring contest. To be more conscious is to be present and aware of unconscious thoughts and actions. Sit down for 2 hours and reflect on where youre being an a-hole, 2 hours youll be more conscious of being an a-hole, tada!

The -isness is the bizness - me

If youre passionate about something youre gonna do it no matter what anyone says, if its a pipe dream that you barnacled from someone else because it looked cool or profitable youre gonna drop it soon enough, so its all good eitherway.

Everywhere and nowhere, and nobody seems to be responsible for it.

Sounds like what psychologists refer to as the Symbiotic Stage, but sort of in-between , as he still had fear around it suggesting self-preservation. I had a nightmare recently where I merged my psychic self-structure with some sort of malevolent machine entity, it was very unsettling.

We have to make a distinction between self-awareness and being. My first memory of distinction ever as a character was a nightmare I had as a toddler, of my toy ladybug probably trying to eat me, that was definitely the first distinction of me vs something else, the first true definition of fear/survival. Awareness of ones lowercase self was a gradual process and not a one-time thing, I never had that ”oh I exist moment”.

Existence. sorry for being so boring but thats the most basic explanation

Tada!

“Jorge Luis Borges - Fictions” has some outright mystical/non-dual adjacent stories like the Library of Babel, Circular Ruins and Aleph “Italo Calvino- Invisible Cities” is a metafictional work about how everyone views one city through many different perspectives, and the prose is delicious and great for becoming still and mindful if you dont rush it.

Semantic Fields Semantic fields are the way words are related to one another, like how cow is related to barn, grass, moo, milk. Staying within the semantic field of what you are writing about creates cohesion. Straying too far can create dissonance, gibberish or humor, however if done carefully it can create salience, intrigue, and interest. Full cohesion: "The policeman stepped out, took the suspect out of the police car, un-cuffed him and brought him into custody" Semi-Cohesion with subtle category jumps "The policeman stepped out, took the suspect out of the police car, a pigeon shat on his shoulder, the suspect laughed as he brought him into custody" Pure Absurdism "The policeman stepped out in his red clown shoes, took the gorilla out of the police car, a pigeon shook his head in a nearby tree disapprovingly, the gorilla grunted as he was brought into custody."

Direct Metaphors and Hyperbole 1.A direct metaphor is a metaphor where the object or state fully embodies the metaphor: "I am a rotten log travelling down a river" - "The traffic is a trainwreck today" 2. Hyperbole is a metaphor where the common is exaggerated to enormous proportions "I am drowning in an ocean of tears" - "It looks like theres been an earthquake in your room"

Metaphors vs Similes A common misconception 1. A simile describes something by using the characteristics of what it describes "he was barking like a dog" - "he ran faster than an antelope" 2. A metaphor describes something by replacing it with something else, for dramatic effect "my heart was made of stone" - "the sun was a melting peach" Metaphors are important and so commonplace because of the confines of literalism, take for example sadness, the word is so vague and overused that it means very little, metaphors allow us to personalise language to where it becomes deeper and more nuanced, and the only way to do this without confusing others is to use words in a particular fashion that they already understand instead of inventing new ones which is a hassle. (Sorry for the run-on-sentence.)