QC @QiaochuYuan 2024-10-26
people learn a lot of different therapy tools in a lot of different orders. the first one i learned was gendlin focusing and it thoroughly informed my approach not only to self-therapy but to writing. i spent a lot of time explicitly iterating on verbalizing felt senses. i was also cross-training by spending a lot of time explaining mathematics, which to me is also about verbalizing felt senses. thereâs very little discussion of this sort of thing in math so i donât really know how i picked up on it but to me it was obviously the thing that needed doing. you learn how to write things other people canât write by getting access to word-producing processes they donât have access to or even know exist
i think many (maybe all?) great writers are doing something like this intuitively (writing from felt senses) but i think my background is unusual in that i was explicitly taught it. i donât know if an MFA program in creative writing ever teaches you at any point how to listen to your body
2024-10-26
There are dozens of writers on here who I want to ask: âWhat do you think are the factors that give you your unique way of seeing things, your skill at capturing what you see in writing, and your eloquence? Why do you think thereâs only one of you on the timeline instead of 100?â
QC @QiaochuYuan 2024-10-26
would people be interested in some writing from me that goes into more detail about how i think writing is related to gendlin focusing and felt senses? claude seems to think the idea is novel, i suspect itâs all somewhere in impro
Guy is WRITING THE BOOK @nosilverv 2024-10-26
You found the generators!!
Hyx @hyxverus 2024-10-27
where can i see the full text? who wrote this?
no @nullbotto 2024-10-27
ok, felt sensing math is legit mindblowing
Hyx @hyxverus 2024-10-27
@QiaochuYuan do you happen to have Gendlinâs book pdf? i would love to learn this technique sounds very interesting
Sameer @Sameerish3re 2024-10-27
Super fucking cool. I seem to recall Gendlin touches on related thoughts in âThinking at the Edgeâ. David Rome has a bit on felt sense and the creative process in Your Body Knows the Answer as well