What are deviant strategies?
When I realised that it was the deviancy that broke down resistance, I was able to see this as a strategy that could be applied across my practice and process.
deviant strategies: flicker
Like the experience of being on a psychedelic trip, whether you perceive bliss or horror is down to your state of mind.
deviant strategy: eco-weird
Weird landscapes tell us so much about making the hidden aspects of life visible, and, about our interconnectedness with the natural world. But, I think there is another aspect that can be important to all writers: they can help us to create BIG MOOD.
deviant strategy: mystery
When you have been inhabiting a world so deeply, it can feel like a loss to turn it into something that other people can perceive. In some ways, the more fully-realised your imaginative space, the more difficult to let go of your vision.
deviant strategy: swimming
I was an adult when I learned to swim, and I think that is why water is troubling and desirable to me, and why it appears in so many of my dreams and visions.
Deviant Strategy: Haunting
I don’t know about you but I love stories set in haunted houses because they offer a closed set, a liminal zone for transformation to occur, and mysteries to be explored but not necessarily resolved. And because they remind me of dreaming.