Mrs.Firefly said:
sorry, that's five replies. missed that one when i was posting.
Mmm you're into numbers! I do that too. I read dictionaries and count the words of every poem posted over at the poetry dept. of WRITE. Then I take the first number - and when the sum is over 10 - I count these two numbers together. And if this number is an equal number I devide it by two ... and so on till I get the source of what the 'poem' or message is about. Symbols also play a role. This is also how I write. I don't really care about the words. (Smile - not really true) I try of course to use nice and surpricing words - I found them in dictionaries, novels or rapports etc.
Shall I count your post quote ubove?
'sorry, that's five replies. missed that one when i was posting' Mmm ok! Wordcount = 11. So that's a 2. A two is female. So you are a woman! Clever eh? Smile + no, I'm NOT fooling around! There's one problem with 'sorry, that's five replies. missed that one when i was posting' See there is a ' . ' in it! Why? A point. That's 2 words = a + point. So I might be wrong that you are female. Yes? Because your count still comes to 2. See 11 + 2 = 13 = 1 + 4 = 5. Now your source is 5 which is a number symbol for the split between boy and girl. Tomboy? You are young! Should we take the point not as 2 words but just as one? Then you get a 3 which is also a kind of toss-and-turn between femininity and masculinity. Archytipically of course. Actually we have now 2 arguments to one that says 'tomboy'. Tomboy = tease? Yes, young and on the brink of something! Female? Ahh non! There's a comma too! So start all over again. That's 11 + 3 = 14 = 1 + 4 = 5. Oef! Confirmed! Tomboy! Young! Tease! Got something up the sleeve! Out on adventure? Want to discover something new? What? Ok, lets analyse the use of encryption in 'sorry, that's five replies.
missed that one when i was posting' to see what the message is. The word 'missed' is encrypted. Its in the middle and all other words carry pointer fucntion. What do you miss?
I know! You missed real communication from all these buffs who have replied to your post! You wanted to know something vital about the art of writing and none of us has read that in your original post! You wanted this = 'it'll give myself and others a chance
to get to know one another better.' And what did you get? You wanted to know 'and it'll be interesting
to learn what and why we write'. You didn't get that, did you? You got 'about' stuff. We all told you about our work but not about that 'fragile connection' between the us and the why. That 'new' you were seeking. You were asking towards the core of writing. And none of even 'heard' that! You don't want 'numbers' of posts, more and more and 'abouts' etc.
Anyway ... numbers, yes. Do writers know that 'why'? I think yes, but it is so deep and secret for everyone, nobody CAN really talk about it. And most of the writers, after they have written something beautiful, are so surprised that it came from their hands. A kind of 'My god, did I write that!' thing. You had experiences like that? I had? But most writers have found a way, a kind of ritual so to speak, to talk about this. It is done over at the poetry section. There they post a poem and everybody reads it and tries to talk objectively about rythm and rhyme and word choice and meaning etc. But it really is a sharing of this 'secret fragile' thing in literature. They convey energy and stuff and that gives the author his affirmation. IN your original post YOU SAID
'when we [you] started writing,' It is beautiful the way you put it! You even put the you in brackets. That would also be a beautiful verse for a poem!
Everybody why don't we tell Mrs Firefly this? The
'when we [you] started writing' . How it happened and what it is to write! Not the 'about stuff' of our writing.
My, my, this number thing draws one onto strange routes! I told you, Mrs Firefly, its the light we need!
aspier
