Very interesting to read how you are using it in the writing process. Thanks.

I have thoroughly enjoyed much of your work, but I have been like you used to be: distant from the internet and the blogging community. I just recently started readng your blog and was unaware of your newest project. I am an aspiring writer, mystic and philosophy graduate school drop out who happened to be working on a book concept in line with The Big Aha. So, I thought you might be interested in checking out a small sample of what I’ve got so far. I definitely have used a very common Macguffin. Here it is:

The pitter-patter of spherical condensation on the linoleum floor of the shower in the rank mildew infested bathroom of a second-story apartment resembled an oddly syncopated marching band (who, as it happens, have—inadvertently and unwittingly—a special ‘knack’ for algorithmic patterns: class four gnarly computations) spectacularly incorporating a multitude of variant time-signatures far more obscurantist than any 4/4 verse-chorus-verse (with the occasional bridge) commercial aesthetic. This symphony of water droplets had put Sophia into a trance-like state, which subsequently transformed into a euphoric-somatic full-body immersion: a total presence eluding all conventional explanations; an ultra-enlightened state of being.

“How did I get here?” Sophia muttered to herself in a tone comparable to that of a person suffering from a comatose induced amnesia—she had finally woken up. And before she could answer her own question, she heard a bell ringing: “The phone?” She seemed to not even know what the phrase meant as she said it. “I guess I should get it.”

She leaned over and turned the knob on the faucet. The masterful aquatic symphony sputtered to a halt with a brief but suiting grand finale. She wrapped a towel around her frail-looking body and proceeded to the kitchen where the phone was perched on a bare wall…

Taymon, hadn’t heard “phlebotinum.” I think the movie Avatar has “unobtanium,” which may have been used by other before. The plot of the lovely old Robert Lawson illustrated book, “McWhinney’s Jaunt” hinges on a tank of mysterious “Z-gas,” which is a really nice example of a bogosity generator.

Thanks

Bill