Drunken Boat #14

Attempt to eliminate all connotation from a piece of writing & vice versa.

Use source material, that is, experiment with other people’s writings, sayings, & doings.

Experiment with writing in a group, collaborative work: a group writing individually off of each others work over a long period of time (8 hour say); a group contributing to the same work, sentence by sentence, line by line; one writer being fed ‘information while the other writes; writing, leaving instructions for another writer to fill in what you ‘cant’ describe; compiling a book or work structured by your own language around the writings of others; a group working & writing off of each other’s dream-writing.

Use dictionary constantly, plain & etymological (rhyming, etc.); consult, experiment with thesaurus where categories for the word ‘word’ include: word as news, word as message, word as information, word as story, word as order or command, word as vocable, unit of speech, word as instruction, promise, vow, contract, & so on.

Dream work: record dreams daily, experiment with translation or transcription of dream-thought, attempt to approach the tense & incongruity appropriate to the dream, work with the dream until a poem, song or phrase that is useful can come out of it, consider the dream as problem-solving device (artistic problem, other), consider the dream as a form of consciousness (altered state) & use it (write with it) as an ‘alert’ form of the mind’s activity, change dream characters into fictional characters & accept dream ‘language’ (words spoken or heard in dream) as gift. Use them.

Work your ass off to change the language & dont ever get famous.