the 5th c of communication is? creative.

the 6th c of communication: compelling.
the 7th c of communication? complete.
(this time, i didn’t begin with a title – the title i thought of and put in only after i had written down a few thoughts, which follows.) so, book #2 will have 5 sections according to the 5 cs of communication according to frank hilario. clear, comprehensive, concise, coherent, creative. not necessarily in that order. what happens to my versions of my own the ten commandments of writing? remember, this is a book on creative writing.

the ten commandments of writing are: i forgot. i also have the ten commandments of blogging. clear includes technical language ‘translated’ into popular language. tagalog? filipino? i prefer english. i prefer ilocano.

i think that i will add another c to the list, to make 6 cs, something about immediate, visual impact: compelling. i am referring to the title mostly. but there is a beginning, a middle, an end to every franciscan essay, right? they must be covered by another c, a 7th: complete. the 7 cs of frank hilario. that’s book #2. at this point, i now have a vague idea what photo to look for in my collection, where just before this paragraph i had no idea at all. the folder i am looking in is called frank’s all my pics bunched, yes, the folder’s name is that long. the number of images is now 4494.

the photo i have chosen to illustrate this one i have titled ‘two squares and a round’ taken at the washroom back of our apartment. it illustrates what i mean by compelling. compelling arrests your attention. compelling can be arranged, it can be natural. (i don’t think i arranged the objects in the photograph before i shot the scene.) do you always have to have to illustrate what you’re writing? i think not, but an image helps tremendously. remember, a picture is worth a thousand words – would you believe 10,000? my joke here is that that’s where the problem begins – too many words from only one photograph.

so: clear, concise, comprehensive, coherent, creative, compelling, complete. actually, from my hundreds of blogs already written, i should now be able to compile examples of what i mean by those 7 cs so that i can now complete another book. but it would be different if i were to teach the 7 cs, not simply write a book on them. and how would i begin a writer’s workshop? i would begin not with the 7 cs but with an a, for attitude. i will aim first for a change in attitude. failing that, i cannot teach you anything. i can teach old dogs new tricks, but i don’t know about changing attitude.

i’m now planning to buy an lcd projector. i asked at sm megamall the other day and the fellow read from his much-folded poster 34K for an acer model. not bad. i can teach 100 with that all at the same time. i can bring myself anywhere. i’m also thinking of doing reviews, like upcat, like rural high, like civil service. i remember reviewing a uplb group and 3 passed – the ones i reviewed were those who had previously failed. jomar was suggesting i have myself videoed while reviewing or tutoring, but i don’t think you can catch me while i’m teaching you how to think fast, how to solve a math problem in the click of a finger, in the blink of an eye.

i look at the photograph again: it’s telling me i don’t have to arrange the components to tell a compelling untold story. so, how about a book that begins in the middle of the book? i’m teaching creative writing, right? and to be creative, you have to remember only one rule: there are no rules. like james bond says, there are no rules, no borders, no limits. pierce brosnan i mean. i don’t like daniel craig as james bond, too villainous to look at.

frank’s stream-of-unconsciousness

intruding. it’s a book in writing.
more than that, it’s a book writing itself.
that’s what it is. and i’m writing how it went very early this morning. what prompted it, i don’t remember. i have chosen this theme design called ‘chaos theory’ by wordpress. perfect! this is all about chaos, my theory & practice of creative writing is chaos. i’m writing straight on the ‘manage posts’ page of wordpress free, not microsoft word first and copy into the website. at this point in time (0817 hr thursday november 29 manila), it looks like i’m trying my own version of james joyce’s version of stream-of-consciousness, which robin owens tells me started with tristram shandy by laurence sterne written in the 1750s (robindowens.blogspot.com); okay, robin, i’ll take your word for it – but it’s tristram, not tristam. okay, it’s stream-of-consciousness. but i’m more on the stream-of-unconsciousness, if i may invent a name, welcoming all thoughts that intrude from within.

this will be book #2. book #1 is titled team icrisat champions the poor, already off the press 3rd week of this month, published by the international crops research institute for the semi-arid tropics, in patancheru, india, care of team captain william dar, icrisat director general. it’s 157 pages, because i happen to like the number, reflecting the name of the author, a frank hilario.

book title: creative writing. practical creative writing. creative writing for non-dummies. non-dummies are both the writers and the readers. science writing for non-dummies, idiots. if you’re a dummy, i don’t think i can teach you, idiot. optimum creativity. serendipity science. science for the people. science for all. communicating science: creative writing for non-dummies. pro-communicating science.

the 5 cs of communication according to frank hilario – clear, comprehensive, concise, coherent, creative. section 1. comprehensive. section 2, clear. section 3, concise. section 4, coherent. section 5, creative. other cs: compelling, contrasting, concentrating, computing, connecting, congruent, collective, add subtract divide multiply. choosy, cutting, combining, communicats: science writing for non-dummies. a journal dedicated to science writing for dummies.

communicating choices. chosen communication. communicating better. communicats. communication for cats. you know cats of course. they’re cool. i remember a one-sentence poem by carl sandburg and it goes like this: ‘cats move on cat’s feet’ or something like that. cats. c for creative. a for accessible. t for technology-assisted. s for science-based media. media of course is plural: photograph, poster, website, blog, essay, newsletter, magazine, brochure, flyer,

communicats is for writers, editors, publishers (desktop), popularizers. to write is to produce original work, to popularize is to translate into plain language scientific jargon

this is a book in writing. if you follow my daily inputs:

(1) you will be confused. good for you! confused means you can’t find the logic no matter how you try. so don’t. i will teach you by example how to find the logic in the midst of the non-logic, find order in the midst of disorder. that’s a tall order.

(2) you will gain insights into how a creative mind works – mine. you have to let your creative mind for you. you have a creative mind, you just don’t know how to tap into it.

c is also for control? no control. no rules, no borders, no limits. that’s creativity. serendipity.

and yes, that’s my own photograph. i have titled it ‘a tree grows in the city’ (manila, 1818 benitez street near corner nakpil street), an averrhoa (balimbing) growing right beside a wall of galvanized iron rising beyond the top of the tree. the picture i took with no flash with my canon powershot a540, 6 megapixels, set to ‘p’ (program), not ‘auto.’ i don’t like to use manual; i hate to memorize the settings, and that’s why i love my canon a540, a gift from my children teresa, jinny, daphne and granddaughter samantha, teresa’s girl. i’ve been thinking of producing and selling online photos with my own captions-stories or quotes. the idea can be copied, but only frank hilario can copy frank hilario perfectly.