Words In The Well

My words are in a deep well, and are waiting to be recovered. They look nice and happy, waiting there for the bucket to be wound down for boarding. Oh, what fun they will have on the slow ascent to the surface of my mind, ready to be unleashed into new combinations. Writing is essentially a game of combinations when seen from a distance, after all, and a game with a very uncertain scoring system. Maybe it has no scoring system, being a solitaire?

Quirky Muffin readers will have to contend with one more possible interruption to regular service around the coming weekend, as this author goes away to places far far away to visit friends unknown. All this travelling is becoming vexing! How do people deal with all of this? At least there are nice people at the other end, and plenty of excuse for avoiding Eurovision. If they only used more words in Eurovision, it might be a far more enjoyable experience! Oh, expect some words on Eurovision after the inevitable catchup viewing. What disbelief there shall be!

It's fun to just write for a little bit, and cast away the shackles of fitting a specific form. Literally anything could happen. It's certainly more enjoyable than rewriting and proofreading, which is a lamentably taxing task, especially when dealing with academic and technical articles. Assimilating and then correcting a paper in a short time is extremely difficult, even if it does prove that a significant amount of brainpower does remain. A while ago, it seemed as if my entire mathematical ability had been leeched away by the process of completing a troubled PhD, but no, some does remain! Now, how best to use it?

Mathematics, words, languages and more. This is the skill set that has been bestowed but somehow not found a home yet. Is it finally time to cease this endless undermining of my own possible success? Can it be done? We will see. Bring more words from the well, and see what happens.

Hopefully some cover posts will be written before departure, but if not then expect the next post to be in a week's time at the very latest.

O.