01-04-2026, 02:55 AM
I write out of atmospheres. There is a feeling or feeling-tone, if you allow for that term, from which things begin happening. And I write them. Sometimes that lasts for weeks, and I can make a story. Often it doesn't last. This is the same with reading and watching. I don't have much interest in story. I'm more interested in atmosphere and sometimes in character dynamics. I've actually made my own "religion" out of Cosmic Horror, Analogue Horror and Folk Horror. The very atmosphere, without the story or reaction of characters. Horror movies interest me in the bridge between mundane and strange, I lose interest when the heroes learn what is going on and the final fight takes place.
How this relates to allusion is that I feel everything through connection or collective resonance, but not through narrative.
Sometimes I watch a movie because I'd like to lay pipe to the actress, but it doesn't end there, and the actress becomes a fictional character that I write a screenplay around. And within that screenplay, I'm able to manage plot and narrative. But the whole movie, in my creative process, revolves around setting and music and the way the actors and actresses look and move and the sounds of their voices. So the storyline is my weak point. That's why I find inspiration in David Lynch and Adult Swim cartoon material.
The way I'm writing here is also demonstrating how out of that dark space, the very white of the screen is pulsing with the need to be filled: and I'm simply saying whatever comes into my mind.
Hopefully you or others can do something with any of this. Well, hope isn't relevant. But I have nothing else to say, though I can pull anything out of anything. I've said enough in this thread, unless you "trigger" me to say something else. I am using the term 'trigger' in a neutral sense.
How this relates to allusion is that I feel everything through connection or collective resonance, but not through narrative.
Sometimes I watch a movie because I'd like to lay pipe to the actress, but it doesn't end there, and the actress becomes a fictional character that I write a screenplay around. And within that screenplay, I'm able to manage plot and narrative. But the whole movie, in my creative process, revolves around setting and music and the way the actors and actresses look and move and the sounds of their voices. So the storyline is my weak point. That's why I find inspiration in David Lynch and Adult Swim cartoon material.
The way I'm writing here is also demonstrating how out of that dark space, the very white of the screen is pulsing with the need to be filled: and I'm simply saying whatever comes into my mind.
Hopefully you or others can do something with any of this. Well, hope isn't relevant. But I have nothing else to say, though I can pull anything out of anything. I've said enough in this thread, unless you "trigger" me to say something else. I am using the term 'trigger' in a neutral sense.