If you are a morning pages person, take a morning or two this week, and start off with a semiotic triplet, which may have occurred to you the previous day, that you dreamed last night, or was suggested by a conversation you had with a significant other. While this endeavour could be the seed for a larger essay, poem, or novella don’t worry about that for now, just follow whatever the moment is offering you. Some examples: Tempests, temptations and temporalities. It may suggest a mood, a tension, a conflict, a description, a threesome of any kind. Start writing whatever comes using your chosen triplet-triality as a jumping off point. Make up, or borrow, a triad of three words beginning with the same letter, or two letters, and: Or, the map to a treasure chest ready to spill its secrets, if you dare take up the quest, follow the thread, play the game that for all intents and purposes seems like a trivial pursuit yet hinting of possible significance.
#Quest for infamy journal code#
of no seeming significance) tempting you to try writing a verse or three, composing a melody, or sketching a wilderness landscape in three tones.Ī triplex could be a code to open a special locket, found in a misplaced pocket, or hidden drawer in your grandad’s antique desk. Notice that adding a preposition, conjunction or secondary descriptor may suggest a possible theme, or perhaps an essay title for some creation yet unthought but beckoning to be born.Ī triplet of your own making, or borrowed from another, might be a jumping off point for a poem, a story, or a composition of found images – a collage.Ī triality may be a ‘triviality’ (i.e. Or, “ Increments, irony and tides of infamy. “ Frisson, fracture and foolishness ” for example. While their individual meanings may harmonize, diverge, or even clash, brought together they may suggest improbable, yet intriguing and novel, semiotic landscapes. I have several collections of triplets now, which serve the philosopher-poet-me as points for pondering, writing prompts, and suggestions of possible prospects of the literary kind.Ī semiotic triality, which is what I’m talking about here, simply means a threefold set of signs or symbols, in this case words. I always carry a little note book where ever I go, don’t you? When they arrive, which can be at any moment, any place or time, I jot them down in my little notebook. This is inspired by my practice of bringing together three words that begin with the same first letter, or two letters, which then creates an alliance of alliterative assonance. Pin Here’s a wild and crazy idea for writers, artists and journal keepers, seeking inspiration to fuel their creativity.
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