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Let’s Get Loud!
It’s International Caps Lock Day, so let’s get loud!
Going Full Caps Lock
We aim above the mark to hit the mark. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
June is practically over and strangely enough, it’s International Caps Lock Day. Fortunately, I actually feel like getting loud.
It’s unbelievable how people continue to wilfully disbelieve in how out of control things have become. Grocery bill doubled? Who cares? Nobody has down money for a new home? No worries, the corporations own all the real estate anyway!
As much to the sudden spike in temperatures as to the unrepentant criminality of our elected officials, I can only raise a defiant middle finger and yell, Fuck It!
I take some solace in the idea that things can only become so ridiculous before the pendulum swings back toward sanity.
As with my least favorite season, this too shall pass. All the more reason to take a nap and let the idiotic parade pass me by.
The Good With The Bad
Samuel Johnson and his CAPS LOCK – [Caution! Dry Ceiling]
Do you know how hard it is to find a good video about the Caps Lock? I was hoping to find a decent stand up routine with the comedian riffing about people relying on the Caps Lock. No such luck.
This skit about Samuel Johnson is a bit disappointing, but it justifies including an actually funny Blackadder excerpt below.
Blackadder Johnson’s Dictionary
Hear My Words
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. ~Hermann Hesse
As I’ve mentioned previously, I find it particularly helpful to listen to my works after I’ve completed a section. It’s much easier to spot things that don’t fit when it’s read aloud.
If you’re writing, I’d encourage you to give this a try. You can read it yourself, but that approach has two drawbacks. First, you’re still somewhat in your head. You know what you were thinking when you wrote it, so you’re likely to gloss over possible errors. Second, you’re focusing on reading it aloud instead of listening to it analytically.
My process is to print my work in progress to PDF and let my phone read it to me using a TTS app. You can pick the narrator’s voice, but I haven’t found that various voices impact my reception of the story. This works for me as an editing tool and a reminder of what has already been written.
Hearing the story over and over again helps to cement the overall plot for me, so my subconscious can work on finishing the threads. In any case, I find it helpful to have my book read to me by an unbiased voice.
That’s all for today. All this yelling is making me tired. I hope you have a lovely rest of the week.