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  "textContent": "_Sunday, October 26, 2025_\n\nGood morning, The Wonder Fell Way.\n\nOh Autumn, with its slow sunrises... taking time to gather all the colors of Fall before showing.\n\nHow's your day? O/\n\nA so much to say day in the air here.\n\nSo, let's go.\n\nOn with our show...\n\n...\n\n> \"How do you know what to write about?\"\n> - Interested Reader Who Also Writes\n\nThere are a few ways to go about writing.\n\nOne: Have an idea, sit, and start.\n\nTwo: Sit and start. See what comes and keep going.\n\nThey both come down to listening, a certain kind of trust for your imagination and your craft.\n\nYour craft is your imagination's means of transportation. The pun works.\n\nCraft also grows. The more we create the more we can create. Skills advance, too.\n\nImagine if every time you drove your car the car itself provided a better ride.\n\nThat's the creation experience of showing up consistently to create.\n\nMusicians know this. You have to play everyday. Practice, they call it.\n\nThe analogy blurs between practicing playing an instrument and writing in that there's a right way to play Bach, but what's the right way to write you?\n\nYou could practice writing like your favorite author, but it's disingenuous somehow.\n\nYou get good at mimicry. It's acting not writing. It's a step removed from you.\n\nThere's an aspect of knowing yourself required to make art. A familiarity with your dreams and perceptions of life is necessary to create anything sincere.\n\nSo you have to sit alone and know yourself.\n\nAny artist in any craft devoid of a knowledge of a relationship with their dream of life can only ever be an actor at best.\n\nSo many of our screen playwrights and popular musicians fall into this category.\n\nIt's the difference between Art and Entertainment, a mocking bird and an eagle in flight.\n\nAny Artist truly committed to Art for Art's sake is always viewed as a loner. Not because of personality quirks, but for the sake of their business.\n\nWe have to sit alone, be alone, to harness a genuine understanding of our personal experience of life so we can best express it.\n\nWe're not anti-social; we're working.\n\nIf you're consistently creating, you're not depressed. You're gathering materials to create.\n\nDaydreaming and self-reflection are necessary skills of any true artist.\n\nTell your friends and loved ones you're working and go stare at the wall.\n\nEvery Artist will know where you really are: Feeding yourself with the dreams necessary to sustain your art.\n\nIt only becomes what we call Depression when we don't have a practice developed. Choose your craft. Choose many. Sing or strum, write or paint; the idea is to create for a set time everyday.\n\nEven if it's just one chorus from one song, one sentence, or stick figure drawing at first. Something. Everyday.\n\nYour whole life will improve. Stay consistent. Enjoy it.\n\nTo make anything requires materials. You're not depressed Artist, you're gathering dreams.\n\nDreams are shapeless things, spirit. We give them form through the creation of thoughts. Our thoughts become actions.\n\nHave your actions preloaded. Pick up your instrument at the same time everyday, write, paint, draw, sing. Shape that dreamtime stored in you with your craft.\n\nSome call it a flow state, but it's really just being prepared.\n\nPreparations are made by daydreaming. It's part of the work Artist.\n\nThank you for taking the time to gather dreams and share them.\n\nTake care and make wonderful this wonderful day.\n\n#### +he Ghos+\n\nWynn\n\nBrought to you by the emoji of the day: 🖼️ __frame_with_picture__\n\nArchaic Slab\n\nSame Prompt 🤔: __Create an image of a faerie wearing pajamas and a bowtie sitting in a quiet room looking out a window at a sunrise in the style of a magical impressionist Dungeons and Dragons painting.__\n\nImage courtesy of Grok Imagine and +he Ghos+, October 2025Image courtesy of Ms. Copilot (DALLE-3) and +he Ghos+, October 2025",
  "title": "The Materials of Art",
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