Aaah, got your attention, hey!   Yes, that is what I do… I live in a time capsule, when creating paintings and blogs. 

It’s my BIG secret:

I discovered it a few years back. 

• You can’t concentrate and give of your best on what you are doing, unless you live in the moment of creating. 
• Your whole mind and soul must live in the time-warp of what you are creating. 

How I live in the moment:

1. If it’s a painting I live and breathe in the scene, like I was actually there. It helps to create the mood and feeling of the ambiance of the moment. 
2. And if I’m writing, I think deeply about what I’m creating. Put my `feet in the shoes’ of whom I’m talking to. 
3. It means feeling the emotions of the moment, to be able to put passion into what I’m creating. So other people feel what I’m feeling. 

Who said it was madness to talk to yourself!

It works for me! You may not be talking aloud, but your thought-up words are running through your brain, in sequence with your imagination.  

Even though you’re in a time-warp state, whether you’re painting or writing, you have to be aware of how things should make proper sense. So there will be… 

A meeting of minds: 

I write blogs like it was a full on conversation, between potential persons and myself!  

Their possible re-action to what I’m talking about. How they would be thinking and what they may be asking me. This makes people feel like you are talking face to face with them personally when you post your blogs. 

You have to be on the same `time-warp’ understanding, to get people to participate (with comments). For instance consider a teacher giving a lesson and expecting the class to participate. 

To get the class to discuss facts in relation to fallacy she or he has to: 

• Get everyone’s attention she has to open with an outrageous remark. 
• And then playing on their imaginations, she sets up a scene they can relate to. 
• She also plays on their emotions, because she knows no one remembers anything, unless their emotions are involved. 

Part of getting people’s attention:

Is to think up crazy or bizarre statements for your Headlines. 

And then in the way your blog’s contents are presented. You use variation in the tone of your jargon. How ‘colourful’ your statements are, etc.

Like in the case of art, you use variation and contrasting shapes, textures, tones and colours to make your paintings interesting. 

Yip, you have to be a little crazy to think up thrilling things to write about, or to paint beautiful sensational scenes.