Monique’s Unique Prose Technique, (can be found in her Boutique of Words)
How do you find your pitch?
how do you tune your craft?
you stretch it,
is strongest
just before it snaps
taut
can snap,
hurt yourself or someone else
take a guitar
loosen it,
tighten it
interesting sound -
loose
try tightening at extreme end of
loose,
razor’s edge of the extreme side
loose sound
repulses,
even sickens the ear
too tight,
high pitched
annoying,
unpleasant to the ear
painful even
somewhere in between
is
scale of possibilities,
but not as difficult as
looking for a needle in a haystack
you can find that spot by
turning it like a jeweler
looking for the right place
to cleave a rough ruby stone
somewhere
some Point
is Exactness
Not must be,
but rather:
Is a Perfect Point
not indefinite or relative -
Perfect.
Here’s an illustrious example:
Anyone can reach into scrambled letters and try to play the game
or dip a spoon into a bowl of alphabet soup
not as fun or neat as SRABBLE
but the result is a jumble of edible letters
not bad if you’re hungry
What is the probability that the letters will fall in the right order to spell
any meaningful word other than the definite article, a
or abe, or abraham, or metaphor?” (or capitalization?)
would you choke if you dipped your spoon into the soup, pulled it out
and just before you put it in your mouth saw the word idiom?
spoon not being large enough for elaboration or quizzical
so it is for us authors,
create,
creation,
creativity
does not happen by itself
intelligence
must intervene
introduced into a closed system
Here’s our moment to undo the disrespect of the idea of a chemical primordial soup having created us humans in our search for extraterrestrial letters.
Letters can fall from the sky you know, in the form of ethereal air like entities, sometimes referred to as epiphanies.
If alphabet soup can create simple or complex words then I am persuaded to believe that words can put themselves together, (which means that alphabet soup is endowed with intelligence, mmmmm goood.
I can see the blockbuster near you:
Invasion of the Alpha Bets, Aliens from Andromeda, Starring Charleston Heston
Out of the milieu of primordial soup, vowels combined with consonants, microwave radiation, (form of lightning), leaked into the bowls of unsuspecting hominids, excited the atoms of the soup to create heat energy and behold: The Word(s).
Musical Score by: Lady La La La
What is the next step in the sequence of intelligent form and advancement to the creation of a word from a letter?
Letter?
Is it sentence?
Intelligence forms sentence and much
Much more
that would be you and me
fellow authors
From one end to the other, outside of the ends
of the string in Monica’s boutique
of words
in her soul
lies no sound
but fuzzy logic
string theory sound
Ultrasound
is soundless to humans
only machines and
some animals can recieve its
soundwaves to register
We may or may not be looking for a needle
but looking for one is almost
necessary if we are to produce exemplary
written work
have any of you ever looked for a dust mite
under a haystack when writing?
From one end of our string to the other lies
the perfect frequency note, phoneme, word, sentence, paragraph, poem, novel,
No sound at all
It takes a strum from an outside agent
a mind, a will and a scribbler with a
scribbing instrument
such as pencil,
or electronic device,
cell phone, word processor
of one kind or another
until we find it
the
Perfect Piece