Tag: reality
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Adobe’s Design CS4, Intoxication and Zen in the Art of Writing…
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you…writing allows just the right recipes of truth, life, reality as you are able to eat, drink, and digest without hyperventilating and flopping like a dead fish in your bed.” –Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing On reading this last night I considered…
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Of Cognition, Revision, and the Internet…
“The emerging model of cognition is as a sustained act of imagination, and therefore continuously active participation in the consensual hallucination of reality.” –Kris Saknussemm ( Write what you know–and be sorry) The Writer Magazine May 2010, author of the novels, Private Midnight and Zanesville What if everything we experience in life is truly the…
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Change, Suffering and Digging Deeper
Buddhism teaches that all things change, and that suffering is inherent to life. As humans we add to this suffering, or rather amplify it, by trying to hold onto the narrative line that we have fed ourselves. We resist the reality of change the various truths evidenced by its existence.
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What is Story?
Jerry Cleaver writes in Immediate Fiction, that story is a heightened sense of reality. Concentrated with the essence of reality, those essentials that render it authentic, and plausible through character descriptions and the crafted context, story is not reality as we know it.

