Weekly Writing Summary

for the week ending 4/20/2023

My Weekly Writing Summary

I began my writing week transcending expected predictive process by experiencing MetaProcessing. "Reinventing the wheel seems to be the purpose and not evidence of any problem. The deeper problem might come from mistaking wheel reinvention as some fatal mistake rather than the eternal imperative."

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I characterized my professional practice as more like taking lessons I'll probably never master in SwimmingLessons. "I  was never once not in over my head. I survived due to the intervention of powers I never once understood, apparently by a mysterious emergent competence not supported by any concrete evidence …"

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I noticed that my stories each describe some difference, and those differences serve as their unifying thread in *Erratics, the most popular posting this period. "The unifying theme of this and all my other collections of stories, then, turns out to be their differences. They do not, other than often stretching to seem to fit within the series' overarching theme, carry very much of anything in common other than their apparently erratic presence."

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I Investigated the curious case of the successfully published author and found him most likely responsible for

Manifestering his success, by which I mean he experienced randomness. "We might learn most whenever observing ourselves interacting with an infinite. We, of course, insist upon sticking with finite rules for these engagements, projecting causes and effects and generally confusing our influence with results."

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I described the seemingly never-ending effort that preparing for Publishing entails: all beginning and middle with no apparent end, in Marionating. "He perpetuates rather than resolves. He doesn't seem to have a middle in mind, let alone an end. Ends, he imagines, must also be emergent properties, never properly envisioned, only experienced."

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I changed venue, believing I might find renewed interest in preparing for Publishing work in Backgrounding. I did! "That background defined my foreground, and I noticed. I wonder if my backgrounds have always so profoundly influenced my foreground activities. I suspect that they have influenced without me having hardly even noticed. I'm noticing now, a little embarrassed at my previous blindnesses."

This writing week might serve as a reminder, perhaps as a cautionary tale. Once in the middle, focus changes. The processing orientation that sparked the beginning might morph into a MetaProcessing focus; prediction becomes relatively meaningless. Practice itself might come to seem more like lessons than improving iterations evidencing mastery. The products themselves might well come to seem more like Erratics than uniform examples of anybody’s mastery. Manifesting might fester some; a puppet master might seem to take charge; changing background might not make much difference, though, upon reflection, no difference might be the sort of difference the effort most needed. I took a day off to travel—my first day off in even distant memory. It didn't hurt me. I feel neck-deep in Publishing now! More coming. Thank you so much for following along!

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