Ti Esrever

One of the greatest things I learned from my adoptive parents is how to learn, and by association how to be creative.

I have my learning disabilities (in the area of grammer and spelling, don't cha know) but I also know that the mind is a playground and the world is a toybox full of wonderous toys. This is the most important thing about learning I know, it's fun.

No not that silly memorise by reciting garbage that is force fed to us in the school systembut actual learning. The way we did it naturally when we wanted to know why the sky was blue... and then imagined a world where it wasn't.

Do kids on distant planets ask, why is the sky fusia?

Ask questions, come up with interesting ideas about the answers, hunt down answers like a game of scavenger hunt, and then think about it backwards (hence the title).

It really breaks down into two simply things. Why? and What if? Both questions, because you should question things to understand them better, otherwise you don't know it, you just believe it.

This is what I do with many of my story ideas, take a question and find an answer, or take something I already know, and then reverse it. History is written by the winners... how can it be possable for that to be wrong? Is there a case in history or can we come up with a scenario in which the losers wrote history? Now run and play with this new toy. Be it stories or what happens if I randomly write color names on index cards and start a painting, When it comes time to paint some other color I pick a color at random. What differance does it make if water is violet and sky is green? What if I randomised my color palette?

Why do we hear about sock monkeies but no sock squirrels? What would a sock squirle eat if it came to life.

As you can see having a good sense of the absurd is also a gift of mine. and I may go into that a bit more for my next post on Friday night/saturday morning.

Take care of yourselves.
Roving Jack