Kent Asked a question, and I will try to answer it, or is it them, here. “What’s your OTP routine?” Routine? That kind of implies that I am organized, or regular, enough to have a routine. There is the reading routine and the writing one. I open it up after my Morning Pages writing. OTP is usually here by then. I search out my favorite authors and read them. Then back to the top to read most of them. At the most, or least, involved or well, I scan them. It takes me half an hour to read them all. I am also working on my speed of reading. It has been slow for the last two years. One Typed Page is the first of what I read in my morning batch of emails. And at times, there are other things calling for attention. Now, writing, the writing part of the One Typed Page portion of the OTP routine, that comes in the late afternoon or early evening. I start with date, place, and typewriter. Put those things down and indented at the top. That is my warm-up. And sometimes I wander off and return hours later to continue and get something typed up. I am lucky in that if my wife has gone to bed I can type. She finds the sound relaxing. Very lucky!
One thing I do while reading the One Typed Page of the day is looking for patterns among the sequencing of the pieces. I am convinced that Daniel tries to put some order to the group. I know they are not just ordered by the time they arrive. So he reads them all and then orders them. What is his method for choosing the sequence? This is fun for me. So I do not ask him about it. I look at them and wonder about them and what they have in common and what goes first and all of that kind of thing.
Figuring out the sequence of things is a habit I grew up on in doing photography. Sequencing is important. Poets have the same concern to worry about. Studying Spanish and Latin had me very aware of sequencing. In Spanish, you have a house small and white, in contrast to a small white house in English. In Latin it is SOV, Subject-Object-Verb, nearly they can be changed around some for poetic reasons. By the way, a lot of Latin is great fun to learn due to the roots of our language. It makes learning most vocabulary easier. Well mostly. They still have conjunction lost in English.
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