#SoL15 Day 30: automatic writing

André Masson. Automatic Drawing. (1924). 
Ink on paper, 9¹⁄₄ × 8¹⁄₈" (23.5 × 20.6 cm). 
Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Missed slicing yesterday when sleep caught up with me at 8 pm. Today it took me down in the around 4 pm in the afternoon: I was up again at 8 pm. There is a odd and annoying symmetry to that. I may (am) not in the mood to write but don't want to miss the final days. That's part of the writing challenge too, isn't it? Being in the mood doesn't matter. Write on anyway. Now if I could only manage writing in my sleep — a practical application of Surrealist automatic writing

"Pure psychic automatism" was how André Breton defined surrealism, and while the definition has proved capable of significant expansion, automatism remains of prime importance in the movement. 

In 1919 Breton and Philippe Soupault wrote the first automatic book, Les Champs Magnétiques, while The Automatic Message (1933) was one of Breton's significant theoretical works about automatism.

 
National Adjunct Walkout Day dominated February. Marching through SoL was a (perhaps therapeutic) change of pace. Since April is National Poetry Month, automatic writing (even if I still can't manage posting in my sleep) makes a suitable segue from March blogging and word slicing to April poetry.

So much for make up posts unless I can manage one big lollapalooza catch-all post tomorrow

New age / automatic writing / surrealist techniques 

Surrealist automatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 

Surrealist Games | (Former) Society of Poetry at UCLA 

A Brief Guide to Surrealism | Academy of American Poets 

poets | Academy of American Poets 

How to Write Surrealist Poetry | eHow 

The Theory and Techniques of Surrealist Poetry by Alan Gullette 

MoMA | Tapping the Subconscious: Automatism and Dreams 

Surrealism Art Movement 

Surrealism and How it is Used Today 

The Origins of Surrealism 

I am participating in the March Slice of Life Challenge: trying to blog a slice a day for all of March.  Thank you, Two Writing Teachers! Visit the site to read some slices