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Brain Dumplings №1
In a New Direction
Last week I published a piece on becoming more selfish in my writing style, and after musing on how that would manifest, I present to you Brain Dumplings. At the end of each week I am going to share what I write down in my notes simply under the title of BRAIN DUMPS. I will present these thoughts as written with very little editing and only minimal additional exposition unless I decide to make a full essay on the topic at some point.
Then again, no one is privy to actually how much editing or exposition I add or trim from these thoughts, so really that’s just me tattling on myself at this point.
Ah well.
It is my hope however that at the very least I can come back and revisit these ideas to write a more formal and developed essay on them, as well as to have others share their thoughts on these brief snippets of thought. Short form writing is often criticized as a lack of wanting to put in the work of further developing upon one’s ideas or nowadays perhaps indicative of the social media brain-rot epidemic. Perhaps however, there is value in brevity, and not in the sense of a hot take (though the lines can be blurry at times) but rather a precision of thought and striking at the essence of an idea or thought. This is something I have found to be true in the writings of Japanese literature and poetry, which…
