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POETICS
Start with a single line / a phrase / a concept / a
sequence. Ruminate on this beginning, on this initial thought, while
travelling: walking, ambling, train-riding, bus-sitting. And begin. Minimalise capital
letters and punctuation - this is stream-of-consciousness writing. No line
breaks nor stanzas; let it flow as a paragraph of strung-together notions. Once
done, align: justify. Now experiment with the page margins, centimetre by
centimetre - compress the words, until it's small and neat and regular.
Clear-cut, the breaks are created unnaturally, simply because the words are
forced to spill over onto the next line. And so, a 'Thoughtbox' is created.
Leigh Harlett
