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No Ideas Makes Me Free Type

I start out with no ideas at all. Then I begin to free type. I type words that rhyme – bubble, double, trouble, he, me, knee. The trick is to keep adding words even if they make no sense. Then I envision Trixie, my muse. She is dancing, prancing, and lancing. Lancing a banana, lancing a bell, lancing her way to the bowels of hell. She is a minx who is always doing something to me – cutting off my head, forcing me to walk the plank, rolling me into wet sticky syrup. I imagine my head sticking out its tongue at her, and being kicked. If the “what if Trixie ……..” stops working, I get out a book about animals. Or a book about trees, stars, ESP, planets, dinosaurs, pirates, or something else. It matters not what the book is about, only that it is interesting to me. I choose words I like and I type them up – meiosis, mytosis, planetary, astral. If nothing pops up, I put a dictionary or a Thesaurus on my lap. I begin thumbing through it, choosing the most tantalizing words. Pantywaist, masticate, which leads me to plasticate, bastifate, chastilate, I love making up my own words the very most actually. Sometimes I am rhyming, other times I just throw down a scenario That did not actually happen but almost happened. Because reality is fun, but “creality” is better. The trick is to type and keep typing, not stopping. Edit later.

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Date: 9/27/2019 9:22:00 PM
You've got that right; stop to edit and you ruin it all. Good advice.
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/28/2019 1:26:00 AM
I try to never edit. Not that it does not happen, it does.
Date: 9/26/2019 10:32:00 PM
reality is fun, but “creality” is better!! it's wondering me
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/27/2019 12:26:00 AM
I love that word. I am going to use it more often now that I have invented it.
Date: 9/26/2019 12:19:00 PM
I'm too much of a conservative to use words so free-wheeling as you do, dear Caren. My word-play has to fit the context before I make it go public. And I'm not always successful or satisfied in what I come up with. Though I can appreciate the matter in your art, to quote Pelonius in Hamlet. / M
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/27/2019 12:27:00 AM
I just "play" and whatever comes, comes. I am fearless in that department. Not expecting others to pick up the fire.
Date: 9/26/2019 11:40:00 AM
perhaps i should try this "creality" sometime...i type without thinking and then end up erasing the whole thing, displeased...i enjoyed this one my friend :) hugs
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/28/2019 1:28:00 AM
The "creality" of it is ...................... NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER erase. It is much more satisfying to scratch through the words with a sharp pen six hundred times, crumple up the paper and throw it at the wall.
Date: 9/26/2019 7:35:00 AM
I love it "creality"...I think Trixie needs a fixie lol now and then...^WW^ :o)
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/26/2019 10:12:00 AM
I wonder if that is one of her assistants names? She is keeping them hidden, and under her claws.

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