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POPSThe Pressure of Time A verb is a movement that must have an object, an urge for an attaching of its desire, for what would the sea be if there were no shore to crash upon and sound its melancholy slow withdrawing ebb, and where would mari-time be if all were only sea? And where would you be if all there was is me? Verbs are the electricity of stories, being comes into being on energy's random licking of obscure and fleeting objects.
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POPSTools for creating ideas More at site. Including, Mind-mapping: Hierarchical breakdown and exploration. Modeling: For the artist in everyone. Morphological Analysis: Forcing combinations of attribute values. Nominal Group Technique: Getting ideas with minimal personal interaction. # PSI: Problem + Stimulus = Idea! Rightbraining: Combine incomplete doodles around the problem. Role-play: Become other people. Let them solve the problem. Reversal: Looking at the problem backwards. Reverse Brainstorming: Seek first to prevent your problem from happening. SCAMPER: Using action verbs as stimuli. Six Thinking Hats: Think comfortably in different ways about the problem. Storyboarding: Creating a visual story to explore or explain. Contradiction Analysis: Use methods already used in many patents. Unfolding: Gradually unfolding the real problem from the outside. # Visioning: Creating a motivating view of the future. Write streaming: Write and write and write until you unblock.
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POPS"Love" An Action Verb I came across this in a word search after re-reading these words from The Spiritual Universe by Fred Alan Wolf p. 264 par 1, 3 "Science deals with classification of inert nouns, while reality appears to be entirely made of active verbs. This activity,...involves consciousness every step of the way, & this activity eludes mathematical description & so far eludes science....The effect of consciousness on physical reality is not accounted for in classical physics." It my seem funny but I always thought LOVE & all the other verbs were on the E side of the equation E=MC2.
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POPS50 Writing Tools I notice that some people here try to build up their fragile egos by using doublespeak when actually they only come across as a book-snob. I usually just feel sorry for them. Here's a great site with 50 writing suggestions that might help bring those people back down to earth. Remember, it's OK to keep it simple.
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POPSHow to write - some reminders Let it rest. Never write up to a deadline. Allow your writing at least a few hours, a day or two if you can, before you come back to it. Cut, cut, cut. You’ve been told that a piece of writing should be exactly as long as it needs to be to get its point across. That’s wrong – it should be half that long. Rewrite. You’ll break all these rules in your first draft. That’s why it’s called a “first” and not “only” draft. Writers just don’t get it right the first time – cut, cut, cut and rework your text into a lean, tight, and clear piece of work.
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POPS-ous Now that I have been given a satisfactory understanding of grammar, I am being introduced to linguistics.
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POPSRandomly-generated 'scientific paper' accepted Starting with skeleton sentences, pools of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and a random assortment of computer science jargon, the program produced a grammatically correct yet utterly nonsensical paper titled: "Rooter: a methodology for the typical unification of access points and redundancy". :)
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POPSWeird Facts I love the RIAA thing. Way to stick a middle finger to the government.
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