Its two thirty A.M. and I'm thirsty.
I've been feeling the need to write quite a bit lately (return to a scholarly atmosphere?) but when I do I don't usually like what soaks through. Things look sound and feel so much better in my head.
I've been trying to decide in what ways my freshmen year of college changed me, but to avoid some type of confounding effect I think I'll just let people tell me when they see fit. I'll try not to be too surprised if nobody ever speaks up.
I don't even really know who I'm writing this for. not myself I suppose, otherwise I wouldn't bother posting it to this blog; which I see as more of a wanna-be.
Today I wondered what it would be like to be able to write your thoughts down as fast as, and then faster than, you thought them up. If such a thing were even possible. could you just sit down and write yourself out of thoughts? then what? achieve some sort of zen like state? The meditation of the fiction writer. Then I wondered what it would be like if the person who could out write his or her mind could only think of mundane things. It's not as if this person is unintelligent, just not especially creative. nothing like a good curse to go along with a superpower. I think if we could all write as fast as we could think that communication would be improved a great deal. we'd all write what we wanted to say, look it over and then edit it and then represent it. the whole process would be quite speedy of course, us being speed writers. oh wait, that's just censorship, scratch that. I wonder how many words you think a minute. I believe that it would be impossible to measure because, to my knowledge, no one actually can write as fast as they can think. But would anyone like to venture a guess? I think its fairly likely that the whole idea is damned impossible. the faster we learn to write down our ideas, the faster the ideas come into our heads. After all, it takes longer for your brain to simply tell your hands what to do then it does for a word or an idea to form. Still, I like the concept. maybe my super hero will be a genius, who eventually comes to suffer from short term memory loss. so this guy has tons of fantastic ideas flying out of his head, but can't ever remember all of them, so he teaches himself to be able to write down his ideas as fast as he thinks them so that he can get full use of his brilliant mind despite his disability. hell. it could be a movie. And don't say that he could just use a tape recorder because you can't talk as fast as you can think either, and you can re-read your ideas a hell of a lot faster than you can replay them.
It's three three A.M. and I'm still thirsty.
