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.