Dangerous Strange Meaning Space

[polymath]

I'm in a dangerous strange meaning space due to several conflicted, real-life, writing-related dramatic complications. The central complication is my purposes, stakes, motivations, and outcome desires somewhat clash with the several stated purposes and many personalities in five brand-new areas of my current writing apprenticeship life hereabouts in Babel. From making a concerted effort, I understand the needs and wants and contentious potentials of the personalities and their purposes and intentions imposed on them by their respective institutions and their permitted discretionary creative latitudes and their otherwise discretionary indiscretions. Empathy, yes. Rapport, hard to build when personality and expectation clash.

Clashes arise when I'm accorded less than a fair effort to meet me at some intermediate common ground. Show me something recognizing I'm not just a meaningless, indifferently-respected machine passing through on the way elsewhere and best once and done dealt with and forgotten as soon as circumstances permit. Show me some humanity.

It came up in the five several writing venues already: The old writing adage, introduce a central character's desire in an opening. Then introduce escalating complications opposing fulfilling that desire at every turn. Yeah, directly stated as a rhetorical strategy for creative writing, and opposition implied or otherwise practiced as a social art in all five arenas. Phbbt. Although, yeah, that's life. Without the pushmi-pullyas pressing in and pressing out, life would be lotus blossom eating and navel contemplation paradise.

Something new learned the hard way, several causes of the proverbial writer's block. They all have to do with fulfilling others' outcome expectations and writing process strategies.

1. Planner writer? May cause an algorithm freeze when writing strategies don't include sufficiently flexible heuristic processses (trial and error) to meet audience expectations and self-expectations.
2. Intuitional writer? May cause a heuristic freeze when heuristic writing strategies lack algorithms for meeting adequate structural expectations.
3. Writing to external expectations? May cause an expectation freeze when appealing to readers' insistence upon meeting the so-called rules of Standard Written English and writing's rhetorical principles, which tend to be cognitively irreconcilable.
4. Writing from preconceived circumstances? May cause preconception freeze when the circumstances refuse to fit expectations.
5. Writing to social and/or marketplace, audience expectations? May cause emotional freeze when not being creatively true to one's self.

The latter is perhaps the hardest to develop strategies for overcoming, though each approach has its manifold strategy perils and pitfalls and overlaps with the others. Fascinatingly, appreciating there are many different writing strategies and many from which to work around writer's block freezes is liberating from learning others strategies and algorithmically and heuristically applying them to overcome writing blocks, not to mention, the more strategies one has, the more one can progress deliberately and effectively, and perhaps independently develop unique strategies for overcoming unique obstacles.

A dangerous strange meaning space, indeed.