10-22-2013, 02:37 PM
Ray, thank you, I also found that helpful all around. I'm intrigued by the emotions wheel, in spite of some substantive disagreement with the way it explains varied emotions and their relationships. Keith, I think your advice exemplifies the very pitfall it describes in your "warning." If you give it some time and some careful thought, though, you might re-state it in a more compelling, if comprehensible way.
To continue the discussion: my mind is always running from one thought, one idea, one memory or experience to another. Sometimes, an idea or an image will just strike me amid the ho hum of the day. Something just seems to pop up, and demands that I dig deeper, down into its roots. When nothing is forthcoming, art can be a catalyst here. Music is very good; I seldom write without it playing in the background. A night out drinking can get the gears turning in a helpful way, too. Now that I think about it, to try and find images, though, often seems to me a fool's errand. Rather do I think I must be found by them. I have to be moved, prompted, cajoled, pricked or pained by something outside of me.
To continue the discussion: my mind is always running from one thought, one idea, one memory or experience to another. Sometimes, an idea or an image will just strike me amid the ho hum of the day. Something just seems to pop up, and demands that I dig deeper, down into its roots. When nothing is forthcoming, art can be a catalyst here. Music is very good; I seldom write without it playing in the background. A night out drinking can get the gears turning in a helpful way, too. Now that I think about it, to try and find images, though, often seems to me a fool's errand. Rather do I think I must be found by them. I have to be moved, prompted, cajoled, pricked or pained by something outside of me.