Stream of Consciousness

It takes a bold soul to write On The Road style. Steady stream of consciousness, verbal diarhhea, call it what you may, it takes a willingness to just 'put it out there'. I've never been an Unselfconscious Producer of the likes of HMatt or MLW, or others. I like to write, like to edit - fastidiously - and then like to put it aside and revisit it again much later, to gauge whether or not it is still pertinent to me. And I LOVE spellcheck (wish it could be applied to every written format I employ - hint hint blogger.com...). I love dictionaries, thesarauses, emtymology (?) books, books on quotations, books on books. I'd have a special stand made for a classic old fabric-bound dictionary to display in my study (that's what I'm calling my studio these days). I'd decorate my walls with quotes: quotes on food, quotes on art, quotes on life. All the relevant stuff. I'd volunteer to work at an art museum just to learn all the sources they use for the wall graphics for each show. I just love words. I love type. I love alphabets, gaelic and foreign. I love sign language. I love reading a passage that conveys a very specific image or emotion just by using words. That an author can use common (and not so common) words to create a truly unique experience is fascinating to me.