SCORE FOR THE PRACTICE OF EXPLORATORY ESSAY WRITING *
Every time before start writing, try to empty the term “aesthetic thinking” of any preconceived meanings.
Every time before start writing, become aware of your body in the situation set up for writing.
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If nothing is written yet, begin then to write when you sense an intuitive connection, an intuition of sense, a sense-related resonance of “aesthetic thinking” triggered by or expressed through the sign(s), word(s) and sentence(s) you are, potentially, going to write.
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If something (new) is written on the shared document, read it slowly enough to allow the signs, words, sentences and empty spaces to resonate instead of attending to their possible meanings. Engage with the trajectories of sense that may emerge out of your slow reading, and then begin to write.
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Continue writing slowly enough in order to sense the resonance of your writing in the drift of sense that it enables.
While writing, let go of any tendency to look for pre-formulated meanings of “aesthetic thinking.” Feel free to explore the etymology of the appearing words and to look for synonyms, antonyms and associated words also in other languages. We will write in english. Nevertheless, feel free to include single words and/or short formulations in other languages as long as they do not hinder the process of collective reading/writing.
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If some else is simultaneously engaged with writing, try to create conditions for the mutual resonance of each one’s writing by, firstly, being aware of the amount of text you are writing and the time needed for it, and secondly, attentively allowing the other writer(s) to finish writing a passage before you continue writing.
In moments of engaging simultaneously in writing with others or while being in touch with already written text, let go of any tendency to enter in a direct relation of dialogue. Instead, relate to the signs, words, sentences and empty spaces written by others indirectly by letting them resonate in the flow of sense they enables to emerge and engaging with this resonance.
Let go of any tendency to correct anything written by other(s) and to correct anything you have written after someone else have continue writing.
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Continue writing as long as you keep on sensing a resonance between your writing and the emergence of sense related to “aesthetic thinking”.
* The Practice of Exploratory Essay Writing was brought to the project by Alex Arteaga. Engage more with this practice in other contexts here.