My writing style Programming Style Cooking Style Piano Playing style. It’s all the same style.

It’s all the same style.

I start off with a vague idea of want. I don’t know what I’m going to write about entirely. I don’t know how the program is going to look when its done or how to go about it. I don’t know EXACTLY how I’m going to make this dish. I have a musical ‘idea’ but don’t know where it’s going to go.

Then I start writing. I start putting together the program. I start cooking. I start playing. All based on the ‘gist’ of the idea.

And it moves along. I add new concepts, variables, ingredients, musical ideas and variations as I go along.

In each and every case: the NEW thing I introduce affects the ENTIRE thing, from start to finish.

A new ingredient goes “back in time” and forwards in time, changing the nature of the food. A new global variable affects all that went before and after [as opposed to hidden or local variables, which I don’t tend to use]. The new musical ideas ‘link up’ to the original musical idea somehow… and I forget what I was saying.

Anyway… in every case, it’s a NARRATIVE.

The ending is uncertain but it’ll get there. Success and failure are not guarantees, but I’ll always give it my all when I’m inspired 🙂

Oh yes, I like a strong finish that ties it all together. 😀 [this isn’t the strong finish – the thing I said before this was the strong finish, the thing that sums everything up and it _appears_ as if I planned the WHOLE THING but no, I didn’t. 😛