Nonsense writing

[vaneramos]

The road home from Toronto: Sideroad 20 at noon on Monday

Sometimes sense won't come out. I'll sit down to write my morning pages and find I have nothing to say. Or I'll write two paragraph, then run out. Or I'll have something serious on my mind but not the patience to articulate it. So I'll just write strings of nonsense words.

Parachute Maracaibo destiny pill incredulous document dogma dalmatian. Tremulous Voldemort persuasion secondary dastardly infusion narcissus castrate taxidermy mastication superfluous.

I've had many such mornings lately. This morning I was agitated. No concentration.

I had an appointment with Keith, the social worker. Then I had to come home to meet the refrigerator repairman. It's not defrosting. Cold air from the freezer is spreading ice down the back wall of the fridge. He said it won't fix. He wants to replace it.

Now we have to get the upstairs neighbours to clear their junk out of the hall so we can move refrigerators in and out. The landlord spoke to them this afternoon. They said they would do it this evening.

They haven't. I know they won't. This is pissing me off.

Nineteen more words: tear penetrate inscribe vernacular caustic morbid dining tendency crush Caligula pipsqueak. Sometimes nonsense says it all.

Comments

[avad.livejournal.com]

my first 'journals' were written in your nineteen more words style.
I really liked that...scribbled often on wood...
made a little 'book' of wood pages...
fond memory

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Wow, that would be cool to see. What kind of wood did you use?

[avad.livejournal.com]

actually don't know. at that time I was using all found objects...so these were pretty uniform scraps of wood I found somewhere..:)

I used to write on rusted metal too

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Actually you answered my question. I wondered whether they were found scraps or pieces left over from other projects, lumber or natural wood. I have seen some spectacular pieces of metal, too!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Ice? Writing is my rock and my salvation. Sometimes morning pages is the only thing I can do. I don't know how I would survive the bad times without them.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'll just keep chipping away. :-)

hugs, and randomnation

[djjo.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the words, good luck with the fridge.

I love the story of one of my favourite songs. The writer keeps many song journals / thought journals. He made a song by taking the first line from random pages, then stringing them into a sort of narrative.

Monkey In The Moon

peace

Re: hugs, and randomnation

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

That's cool. One of my favourite old memes was to take a random sentence from each of my friends' most recent posts and make a poem out of it!

writing on wood!

[nine-ah.livejournal.com]

How bizarre, I wrote a poem on this junk piece of wood just because it was all I could find at the time. I placed it on a shelf. Every once in awhile I run across it and I think, I really need to copy this into a note book or journal...but I don't. I am probably not supposed to. Great idea to make a little book of wodden pages.

Van, I was going to ask you about morning pages (if you did them) and so I came to your journal and you discussed them in the first post I read. I thought that was bizarre as well...

I don't know if it is a Mac thing or not, but when I view your comments, they are all stacked one word on top of the other...lol is this intentional or a "Mac thing?"

Re: writing on wood!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It certainly isn't intentional. The Mac must not like my Style. But I have other friends who use Macs, and they don't seem to have problems. Perhaps it is just a temporary LJ glitch. Sometimes I see errors in the format of my own journal.

I've been writing morning pages since New Years 1997. I got the idea from The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, but originally I used a computer. The handwriting practice solidified after I read Natalie Goldberg's books: Writing Down the Bones, and Wild Mind. She doesn't insist on handwriting the way Julia Cameron does, but it made my habit more practical and flexible. Do you write morning pages?

Re: writing on wood!

[nine-ah.livejournal.com]

Ha Ha! I am reading the book right now! (the Artists Way) I guess my next purchase is to get writing down the bones! I am interested in starting the process but no I have not done any morning pages....yet.

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

Sorry for your troubles but the scowly faced icon? Hot.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, thanks Paul. Did you try to send me an email?

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

To be honest Van, I have not. I need to though.

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

No, I have not e-mailed you. I have to be honest, lately I've had little mind to be online other to journal rather quickly and then get off (I'll let you decide the ramifications of that statement).

Even now I'm only 50 minutes away from needing to work and I haven't showered. Thank goodness I'm only 10 minutes away from work.

HUGS! Paul

P.S. I love your posts...they are almost a form of meditation for me.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

and then get off

I intended to send you something to help with that.

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

send me how? via e-mail or via snail mail? I'll take the snail mail...*giggles*

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I had in mind email.

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

ah...okay...by the way, I apologize for missing it but a very heartfelt belated birthday. I hope you ran around in your birthday suit!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks very much. Not much birthday suit time, because the girls were here, but it was a fun day anyway. :-)

[blt4success66.livejournal.com]

well maybe we should meet soon so we can both run around in our birthday suits *giggles*

[willowing.livejournal.com]

hey, I'd been missing you. :) nice to see you again

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks, it's nice to hear from you too, and good to be back. :-)