Shaun: Two weeks ago we were hanging out at a friend’s house and Carrie met a woman who was talking about writing, and how it helped her through some tough times and how she loved writing, but didn’t think she could ever be one.
“It’s all stream of consciousness,” she said as if it was a bad thing.
This of course broke Carrie’s heart.
Carrie: To be fair, my heart is easily broken. Like last week, when one of our friends said that Shaun is the best part of the podcast because he’s funny and I’m trying to be informative. Heart broken for me. Happy for the Shaun.
Anyway, since I’m informative, stream of consciousness is a term that William James created a little over a century ago and it means
“… it is nothing joined; it flows. A ‘river’ or a ‘stream’ is the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let’s call it the stream of thought, consciousness, or subjective life.”
That’s taken from Literary Devices Net, which was quoting Mr. James.
Toni Morrison, Jose Saramago, Beckett, Joyce all use stream-of-consciousness as a narrative construct in their stories.
Shaun: Honestly, our entire podcast is pretty much a stream-of-consciousness narrative. Tomorrow on Carrie’s regular blog, she’ll have some writing tips about using stream of consciousness.
Dog Tip for Life:
Live in your moment, go with your river of thought.
WRITING TIP OF THE POD:
Don’t let anyone ever tell you that your literary constructs or devices or voice isn’t cool. You do you.
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