Shouts From Down Under

Sleepwriting - done by anyone, anywhere; boring is optional.

How many of us aspiring (or otherwise) authors / writers have the ability to write while sleeping, or to put people to sleep who read our stuffs / stuff-ups?

http://www.sleepwithmepodcast.com/

http://www.fastcompany.com/3042786/sleep-week/podcastzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Reasons, not necessarily the top ten, why you know your book is an effective sleep podcast. (Yaaawwwn)

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and so on. Please feel free to list yours in the comments section of this blog entry. I'm too tired already to think of any, or to steal any from Google results.
However, I did find a bunch of stuff on this subjek*. (*Peter Griffin quote)

< Sleep = > Authors (?)

https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/12/16/writers-wakeup-times-literary-productiv...



"I am writing something. Yes, I plan to make it the most boring thing ever written."

http://www.bradezone.com/2008/09/13/boring/



You've heard of the Darwin Awards, for people whose actions improve the world's gene pool by removing themselves from it?

http://www.darwinawards.com/

What about people who lower the world's gene pool standing just by getting themselves reluctantly out of bed?

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/09/24/09/34/driver-standoff-holds-up-traffic-...


Another winner of the Sparky TWAT award.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3246897/Police-officer-Detective-Sergean...

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/112143403496/nobel-prize-winning-physicist-accident...



I'm probably an idiot for posting old news, particularly when it bags out Aussies, but here are the toppers for 2014, according to this web site.

http://beartales.me/2015/01/19/prize-winning-idiots-of-2014/

A quick Uchoob example.



No humour at all for this TWAT who must take the proverbial cake prize. #thecakeisalie. More than one maybe. Idiot not cake.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/northern-beaches/reckless-idiots-slas...


So, is sleep writing possible? More than possible apparently. This is an official disorder. Maybe that explains the quality of some of my stuff. I need to wake up to myself.

http://ehealthforum.com/health/writing-while-asleep-t130722.html

But, sometimes there comes along someone who makes up for these tsk-tsk people, and their unbelievable oversights.

I mean, this is important.

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/09/24/07/15/german-man-invents-lock-to-stop-p...



Sowing seeds of boredom, boganism, or boolean logic (All answers either TRUE or FALSE) can be done with the best of intentions, yet a tiny voice (in the comments section of course) brings us back to the cultivated earth with a dusty thud.




https://www.facebook.com/#!/MangoSteve/posts/10207586890380405?fref=nf

There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbours. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbours when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.


“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbours grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbours grow good corn.”

So is with our lives... Those who want to live meaningfully and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all...

Comments under this post.

"Good thing he didn't buy his seeds from Monsanto..."

"The moral, don't live next door to GMO cornfields..."

Sadly, the truth about many of life's issues, often produces sleep inducing boredom. Rest assured; this in no way takes from these snippets of wisdom.

There is a biblical warning about sleep. "...a little folding of the hands..." and those who slept on, oblivious to the spiritual battle raging nearby potentially effecting all of earth's populace.

Whenever we write- day or night - or whatever place located on this tectonic plate strewn ball of barely contained lava, the cycle of sleeping and waking and writing and sleeping goes on, somewhere on Earth. Someone is jamming that nib of inky goodness onto pages, cramming those word lithograph-isations onto something, even if it's the wall of a cave in outback Australia, up in the 'territory, humans are writing. Humans are getting on with that most family uniting activity there is.

Story telling.

And those who aren't doing this? Well, they nodded off reading it.

Sparky