Thinking of trying automatic writing

Automatic writing is a process of writing ‘unconsciously’ by entering a sort of ‘trance’ state and producing writing that isn’t consciously considered and thought. It’s something I’ve wanted to try for a while, though was put off by not knowing too much about how it works and particularly what I vaguely remembered reading previously. Now I’m intending to go back to it and try it.

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Thinking of trying automatic writing

Moses supposes…

One of the things it can be fun to do (for those of a certain sort of nature!) is take a relatively simple ‘stimulus’ such as a picture or verse, and see what ideas you can come up with around the picture/verse/whatever in, say, 10 minutes. Some of the ideas that come out can be quite surprising and it’s possible to come out with quite a lot about something simple (most of which isn’t really ‘about’ the stimulus necessarily, but is associated from it).

For some reason the other day I came back from a meeting and had ‘Moses supposes’ from Singin’ in the Rain in my head which, for the uninitiated, goes like this:

Moses supposes his toeses are roses, but Moses supposes erroneously.

Moses he knowses his toeses aren’t roses, as Moses supposes his toeses to be!

Obviously the main purpose of the song is just the sound of the words (and play on a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose) and I doubt there’s “really” any hidden meaning but what I managed to come up with is:

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Moses supposes…


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