Comments on: The Universe is Self-Ordering

By: hughftz

hughftz — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:33:06 +0000

Right on point. Thank you!

By: Julie Tallard Johnso

Julie Tallard Johnso — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:20:18 +0000

I am getting back to my choatic, way to big, novel. Thanks. Julie

By: Angel Vallejo

Angel Vallejo — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:02:50 +0000

Entropy is a nonsense for authors. I´m not sure if was Henry Miller of Harold Robbins who answered to a wannabe writer about the “secret”: “Lock yourself with some sheets a complete weekend, and write all and every idea that comes to your mind”.

In my experience, no doubt they will finally form a thing with some kind of order and logic.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:55:32 +0000

It should be noted the self-ordering does not nessessaryily include freedom or liberty. There can be no question that America is becomming a much more ordered country.

By: Indigo Red

Indigo Red — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:11:54 +0000

I read somewhere (a book by Michio Kaku, I think) that the universe has a priority system that goes like this: Do what’s easy, do what’s hard, do something.

By: Kim

Kim — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:47:46 +0000

Your post was just what I needed to read today — a day of creative chaos, highs to lows. Thank you.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:21:15 +0000

Thanks so much for your writing/blog. It has truly been a great help with my own work.

Here is my submission for favorite WOA quote… Reading the passage where you describe finally sitting down to write after years of avoiding it and then doing the dishes while whistling was a huge turning point for me. I could really relate to this and I finally realized, just as you did, that ultimately it is more painful to continue to avoid the work than it is to just do it…

“It hit me that I had turned a corner.
I was okay.
I would be okay from here on.
Do you understand? I hadn’t written anything good. It might be years before I would, if I ever did at all. That didn’t matter. What counted was that I had, after years of running from it, actually sat down and done my work.”

Thanks!!!

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:56:58 +0000

The thing that clicked the most with me on this post was the concept of Self Ordering. I’ve felt this before in my own writing and hardly noticed it. I wonder if recognizing this concept is like waiting up for Santa: knowing that you’re prying eyes rest on the living room, the deliverer never arrives. Or is it the opposite and instead of remaining elusive, the organization feels welcome like an old friend?

Wonderful post. Thank you for sharing.

By: phil

phil — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:45:21 +0000

Well put, but chaos theory doesn’t quite say that all things delve into chaos eventually. It stipulates that complex systems arise out of simple things and then organizes itself at the edge of chaos. There’s a good book on chaos theory called ‘Deep Simplicity’ by John Gribbin that does a very good job of explaining chaos theory in layman’s terms.

By: Greta James

Greta James — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:29:26 +0000

Your blog today stands alone…but if readers don’t have/haven’t read The War of Art, do yourself (and your endeavors) a big favor and find it quickly!