Work in Progress or something to that effect

It's funny how you can discover how to do something different without thinking about it too much. I've been working on a couple of story ideas lately and coming up busto on the process of how to write these stories in a more intriguing way; something other than the norm ya see.

I like the idea of the book House of Leaves, creeped my shit right out but very well done in its execution and makes you pay attention to your surroundings, in the story itself and within your own home (after a while I had the lights on when I read it). What I think I'm trying to do is expand the idea of stream of consciousness writing by using the old school Kerouac theory of "first thought=best thought". I've never done this before, it was sort of forbidden when I was in college. My prof would tell us that "even though Kerouac was a cool writer that whole theory was bull, he did rewrite and edit".

And sure, that's true, but it's the theory alone that makes me entertain the thought of no edits, going with the idea of not telling a straight narrative, writing as if you're really in the narrators' head, using the voice of the mind in the unconventional manner of how people think, or at least how I think, which is probably more staccato than linear. Jerking here and there, easily distracted by anyone or anything that becomes of interest. I also plan on doing this under the influence. That may be a bad idea though. I used to date this chick who wrote a novel while stoned. She'd smoke a joint and write, then the next night write straight. Eventually she would go back and rewrite, not satisfied with what she'd produced. "It's just not coming out right." she'd say. I read some of it and found it interesting. I could tell in part where she was straight when writing and when she wasn't. The chapters written while stoned were much better, more loose and risk taking, her voice was more involved, more dominant. Those pages were what she would rewrite and in turn ruin what she had by being too concerned with traditional story telling and what the "readers out there" would perceive. This is where I think I can pull it off; the concern for acceptance by the masses is passe' for me. I think it's best to do what you want to do and not worry about the reception. I know a couple of people who claim to be writers but are very much into the adulation from people who they call "fans". Bah, waste of my damn time.

I think I've begun my new process and didn't know it with the last issue of Needles for Teeth. I have a story there called Blue Train; I didn't think too much about it at the time I was working on it, just remembering and writing it the way I remembered it. Sure there were little influences involved, but it was mostly memory that spurred me. So I'm continuing this idea, this process, trying to turn it into something bigger, hopefully I'll be satisfied at the end of it, or at the very least, except it as an experiment of (un)conscious thought procession in theory of word usage to express narrative communication, while intoxicated. Yeah, I'm so fuckin Beat. Now I need to smoke cigs and drink coffee.