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Tag: writing

  • think-and-write person

    think-and-write person

    Being a think-and-write person: “…the hard things when you’re not thinking or writing and as far as you know you are dead or might as well be, with no word for yourself, just that suction-shush like a heart pump or straw in a milk shake…” [CK Williams, Writers Writing Dying, Pp59] It’s for keeping an…

  • Intrusions

    Intrusions

    Energy, potential, conflict, resistance . . . the lively daring of democracy that must struggle with the tendency for power to entrench itself and with a mixture of clever advertising, propaganda and scapegoating, plus the occasional demonstration of the willingness to use lethal power. Power and it’s paymaster, wealth. It seems that as long as…

  • Into the maelstrom – as though we know what we are doing (part one)

      This business of writing can present puzzles and one thing that is readily on hand to bash our heads against are those two ancient categories of fact and fiction, and the apparent certainty of their definitions until as we begin the examination the distinction melts away and we are left with words, phrases, sentences,…

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.