What I’ve learned

Writing blogs, writing creatively, contriving projections on the future, throwing up textual poetry, doodling lists, reviewing happenings from the real world.

This blog post is an ideas flow. I’ll edit it a number of times, but the initial flow of ideas is the purpose, and has/will remain within a constant, narrative-like structure from the initial keystrokes to the finalising publishing button click.

I chose to classify this blog post as a creative writing piece.

An indicator to the contrary, we are missing the three act structure. Then again, upon close inspection one can spot a three act structure in this blog. And although the character and setting are non-conventional they do still exist within virtual space, with my mentality as the protagonist.

This is not the journalistic top-down pyramid, although, interestingly, that is originally what I had intended to use to structure this blog post. As a quick side note, while we’re on the topic, in my life I’m still yet to successfully keep a top-down story. I just plain love the narrative structure SO much that any and every news story I’ve ever tried to write becomes wildly fictional almost immediately and takes on elements of conflict, however small, all the while growing itself at least one character and … and … and back on topic, in a way I suppose this blog could be classified as a review. In some ways, it’s a subjective review of the my subjective while posting a blog.

The thing that I realised – getting back to my original point – is that there is a different level of bullshit content in each form, and different ways to present each different end product. And I don’t care about any of them at all, though end up usually, sometimes, using bits and pieces of any of some of them most of the time.

On my first day of uni I was sitting in my very first lecture hall staring at the very first outwardly feminst woman I’d ever met. She was obsessed with feminist rights, wearing purple with wild red hair and tiny bells on her wide, wide skirt. I fell in love with that woman, and everything she was. She changed my life that day, because she gaves me the word that I love using most in the world. The word was, ‘bleeds.’ Form bleeds into function, feminist rights bleed into minority issues. Meridith. I got up for a 7am lecture every Wednesday for two semesters, smiling, because of that woman.

What it all comes down to in the end, is my love of letters. I love the clacking of my keyboard; I love altering words, replacing them and reorganising them. The concept of a blog appeals to me so much it’s hard for me find enough space in my heart to fit all the love I have for it. It’s everything I want from a creative medium. It’s digital, it’s textual, it’s a changeable space, has an accessible audience with boundaries and rules limited only by my own enthusiasm.

My boss asked me to interpret his dream last night.

He said that our General Manager was fired, and that Pauline Hanson was hired in to take his place. And then, Pauline Hanson fired a bunch of people.

He received this email at last night, which I wrote, while waiting for a video to render.

What Does Your Dream Mean?

by Kate Edwards

A politician in your dream often involves the very issues which you find in politics – the need to promote and defend your own interests. You are considering the need to argue your own corner. This dream in particular bleeds and intermingles with the term “office politics;” the politics of your working life are being compared and contrasted with a public figure head within your subconscious to represent your narrower world-view on a grander scale.

This dream may suggests that there are changes in command structures somewhere in your life. Changes at work, or at home, over recent times which have affected your subconscious on a level that you are trying to address, but can’t pass scratching the surface. You have brought a figure head into your subconscious dreaming to represent the change that you want to make. Change is on your mind, and tipping the balance of power is your key focus.

QUESTIONS:
- Did you face an issue involving office politics the day before the dream?

I added a contact page today. And I’m thinking about adding a page for photos.

Ah, excellent, the video has finished exporting. Back to work!