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Stream of Consciousness Nonfiction: Can It Work?

December 20, 2021

creativity, experience, experiencing, experimental, writing

This will probably be one of the weirdest posts I’ve ever written, but if we don’t try new things how can we challenge ourselves? Without the courage to lose sight of the shore, how can we discover new oceans? This post on whether stream of consciousness nonfiction can work is an example-in-itself.

I decided to give myself a challenge: start writing a post and see how much I can write in the span of thirty minutes. Can stream of consciousness nonfiction work? What will it look like? Is it worth it? Will I stop making silly, self-evident questions and instead proceed with the post itself?

I’ll document my progress as I go along, because I feel this will be the most useful (to you) part of the entire experiment.

stream of consciousness nonfiction — *Whenever I don’t have time to think much about an image, I simply add a cat photo. Always works!*

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The Smell of Paper: Memories and Experiencing

May 24, 2021

Experiencing

experiencing, imagination, memory

Do you like to smell paper? If yes, I’m sure you find nothing weird about it. If not, you likely think that people who smell paper are weird, or worse. Perhaps you find it weirder, still, to hear that smelling paper is a strong facilitator of memory and, hence, experiencing.

In other words, smelling paper can help you recall old memories and relive past experiences. As we’ve seen before, this is crucial for a writer.

But even if you’re not a writer, recalling and re-experiencing your memories offers a sense of identity, helping you to reflect on yourself. Ultimately, it helps you better understand who you are.

All this from smelling paper!

smell of paper — Paper doesn’t smell like roses. It smells like paper! And it’s precisely this uniqueness that makes smelling paper special in helping us remember

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Why Friends Disappear (and why It’s not a Bad Thing)

February 1, 2020

Experiencing

experiencing, friends, life, nostalgia, society, time

Why friends disappear might sound like a social topic. And yet, as you can see, I’ve chosen “Experiencing” as the post category. The reason is that this post is, like every other, entirely selfish.

Don’t get me wrong; if you can find answers to your questions, I’m happy. But first and foremost, this post is a stream-of-consciousness-like effort (not unlike recalling almond trees or Greek coffee) to find answers to my own questions.

Yes, my friends have disappeared. Others have reappeared. Then they, too, disappeared. Years pass, friends come, friends go. I’m definitely not a good example for friendships lasting a lifetime.

You might be tempted to think that I’m the common denominator, hence, I must be part of the reason. You wouldn’t be wrong to think that, but not for the reasons you might expect.

Yes, my friends have disappeared, and I’m the focal point of my friends that disappear. But so is something else: space-time. Blame my academic research interests, but it’s hard for me not to put everything in a space-time box. Humans are temporal beings.

Why friends disappear is a simple repercussion of our lives, which are bound in space-time.

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