Updating discussion-thread after two-years.
I had written this (edited) story long ago - a story which can be fitting for dream journaling.
The topic of creative writing can be a story in-itself; as closed-loop thinking applies. Upon the process of “developing this paper,” the irony of the topic being written about remained apparent. There are many ways to describe writing, reading, and criticism. Yet, narrowing-down these descriptions, and organizing words into sentences, and sentences into readable content began as a daunting effort, yet, became increasingly lucid all the way to completion.
The starting point for this project was (of all things) a remarkable (sleep) dream: The morning after I had taken the first of six creative-writing sessions (the first instructor-led writing class since middle school), I had a dream (in that half-asleep/half-awake state) which clearly related to the first creative writing project.
The dream is described as nothing more than imagery of letters composed of two or three sentences in an unreadable code of letters. The letters were in a quality black font on a dark-yellow background of a computer screen; complete with a flashing cursor at the end of the coded sentences.
Three possibilities regarding this dream (in highlight points):
* That writing, reading, and criticism is like a constant process of decoding and encoding and decoding again; hence the flashing cursor in my dream prompting me to type-out even more content.
* The comparisons of word-processing, and it’s ease in organizing content with the “old fashioned” writing and organizing of content on paper.
* An attempt to put myself into my reader’s shoes.
Go figure!
