Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Of sequentiality

Since I've ccome with the idea of chainposting and making sequential posts, I've noticed a lot of possibilities, an endless ammount of different subjective results that allow forms of art to be made from it. But not only chainposting is a more structural and broader form of sequentiality that end up too big for me to handle at this moment, but soon I had to face one bigger problem.

How do I deal with these goddamned crossroads? After all, by the logistics of sequentiality, you're bound to show one event after the next one and not rarely subjects will sprout themselves in different routes that simple techniques like parenthesis and listing will not work. I am quite sure sequentiality is the thing that makes all writers out there to lose nights of sleep, as the problem is that it isn't only a matter of sequential events and posts, but also paragraphs after paragraphs, lines after lines, words after words. Even musicians, they spent their composition time thinking of the best note to come the last one, of the sequentiality that brings the most interesting or cathartic buildup, and leaving the unchosen behind.

As there is an endless ammount of possibilities I also end up having enough freedom to countour the issue, like not being punished by leaving a random subject like a loose end and then hook it back as soon as possible (and in fact the use of these hooks can make interesting effects with the reader). I assume most readers aren't that exigent, but I find it an obsession to first master sequentiality in its primal form, linearity, and to keep it flowing as naturally as it can. It can become quite a maddening obsession if one's to try to unveil the best way to keep a linear flow, or how to hook back to a previous topic left behind in the crossroad.

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