tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post8577684684421182493..comments2024-03-25T02:15:02.505-07:00Comments on Nancy's Blog: Hypergraphiaadminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442349453021015062noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-90199380098920439292009-09-24T12:55:49.694-07:002009-09-24T12:55:49.694-07:00Flaherty's book is not an "odd little boo...Flaherty's book is not an "odd little book" to those of us who are truly hpyergraphic (almost always also sufferers from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy). She explains a phenomenon that has driven us crazy our whole live through. No true hypergraphic can go for several days without writing. It just ain't possible. If you want to see how a true hypergraphic blogs, see mine (not her on blogspot, but on that other blogosphere (https://sumnonrabidus.wordpress.com/ )Of course, I have other problems, too, but hypergraphia is a symptom of most of them.Fac ut vivashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12682976871672677622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-85891184294054432802008-03-18T09:02:00.000-07:002008-03-18T09:02:00.000-07:00:-D Brilliant!In Ireland, writers are tax exempt. ...:-D Brilliant!<BR/><BR/>In Ireland, writers are tax exempt. Or something like that. Isn't that why McCaffrey moved there?José Iriartehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653811568201804995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-43386295055708984882008-03-18T07:40:00.000-07:002008-03-18T07:40:00.000-07:00Just passing through...With regards to the two pat...Just passing through...<BR/><BR/>With regards to the two paths, I thought it was kind of funny... Become an artist and you'll struggle to support yourself financially. Become a psychotic and you'll get a lovely room with a little window, people to clean up after you, and three healthy meals a day. Seems to me that society should be a little more lenient on the artists...Danielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10215869158621998776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-11211786989436117522008-03-17T17:13:00.000-07:002008-03-17T17:13:00.000-07:00"But I think God is trying to talk to us through m..."But I think God is trying to talk to us through music. He's saying, 'Look around and see what you have. Take care of each other, don't hurt each other.' That's how I feel when I hear beautiful music. So I think music is God's language."<BR/><BR/>Tom Hanks from The Green Mile - "I think I just about believe that very thing."<BR/><BR/>The magic system in my current novel is based around the creative process. The protagonist is a young musical prodigy who finds he's able to "sing" magic (with voice as well as instruments.) Different melodies do different things. Others are painters, sculptors, poets, etc, who can unlock the magic within themselves through their art.<BR/><BR/>Probably been done before, but I was sick of wands and staffs and spells.Wealthedgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629878027033626668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-24552580711899187592008-03-17T16:57:00.000-07:002008-03-17T16:57:00.000-07:00A musical thought or two:Paul McCartney has =never...A musical thought or two:<BR/>Paul McCartney has =never= described how he writes music. All he's said is, "Sometimes I can hear a melody in a single note." Which tells me he =doesn't know.=<BR/><BR/>And Mozart once said about composition (paraphrasing), "I hear music in my mind all the time. All I have to do is write it down."<BR/><BR/>Brian Wilson: "I don't know where music comes from. I think God. All I do is sit at my piano. My hands find a nice progression. And you get a melody from that. But I think God is trying to talk to us through music. He's saying, 'Look around and see what you have. Take care of each other, don't hurt each other.' That's how I feel when I hear beautiful music. So I think music is God's language."<BR/><BR/>It's as good an explanation as any.bluesman miike Lindnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00730308789066832084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-49741374265669719042008-03-17T14:19:00.000-07:002008-03-17T14:19:00.000-07:00Hypergraphia . . . that sounds like me and my wife...Hypergraphia . . . that sounds like me <I>and</I> my wife lately. I don't think it's a particularly bad thing, though. :-\ I mean, sure, the dishes and the bills and and the work pile up until they reach critical mass, and, yeah, the Christmas tree is still up . . . I'll try to get to it over Spring Break. *blush* But I've found that if I wait to write until I have time to write . . . I never will. I have enough obligations to soak up all of my time, so if I ever want to write, I have to put it ahead of something else.<BR/><BR/>Still, if I ever do get in trouble over it, do you suppose I can claim to have hypergraphia, and get an ADA accomodation for it? ;)José Iriartehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03653811568201804995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1695280310697378421.post-81478664806029713582008-03-17T13:50:00.000-07:002008-03-17T13:50:00.000-07:00Genius touched with madness. A friend in high sch...Genius touched with madness. A friend in high school was a VERY accomplished classical guitarist at the age of 14. I was still struggling with Stairway to Heaven and he was breaking off Segovia like it was Mary Had a Little Lamb. <BR/><BR/>He plays for the San Francisco Philharmonic now. If he's off his meds, he's like a musical version of A Beautiful Mind, hanging sheets all over his room covered with strange musical nonsense.Wealthedgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16629878027033626668noreply@blogger.com