That is indeed interesting. Maybe creative people have an extra does of pareidolia, the false recognition of familiar patterns in random noise. Faces on Mars, that sort of thing.

Maybe I should go stare at clouds before writing sessions. Heck, there could be a Rorschach method of outlining. I have bottles of ink for my fountain pens.

Could be I was making the mistake of spilling the ink out of nibs instead of directly out of the bottle... Oh, wait, never mind. I've actually already done that. Inadvertently. That's why I don't move the settee.


MadaboutDana wrote:

It's an interesting argument, not unlike the everlasting debate about
the portrayal of the 3D world in 2D in paintings and other artworks. Why
do humans need to do that? Who knows. Why do (some) humans like
outlines? Who knows.

Amontillado wrote:
Outlining is writing in shorthand. It's not dimensionally limited unless
>the writer is. An outline is a map, not a prison. Dammit, Jim, I'm a
>writer, not a jailer. You can't hold me responsible for whither my
>characters roam!