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I haven't, although fully aware of a disproportionate number of disappearances from national parks in the US (compared to other parts of it). Several of my blogs are in fact about these vanishings. Thanks for that: I'll certainly be taking a look see!

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My experiences with writing involve creative writing. I find metafiction interesting e.g., Author Kurt Vonnegut from the 1970s offers excellent examples. I've even taken an interest in selectively deciding which of my (sleep) dreams to put to written words.

I like song writing and writing odd poems which i consider a fairly poor attempt at beat poetry.
Being dyslexic with major problems with grammar, and being a fairly masculine man
I don't find traditional romantic poetry particularly easy nor attractive (no problem with others writing it though).

I think perhaps the best influence for provoking abstract visualisations perhaps would be psychedelic experiences and Japanese Haiku / 50s beat counter culture.

The beat authors (Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Neil Cassady etc).
I think are a big influence on quiet a few, as well as some of the writers who associated with the beat authors but who did not consider themselves to be Beat Authors themselves, such as William Borroughs S Borroughs.
Hunter S Thompson also an interesting one.

William S Borrough is acclaimed to have invented the spontaneous writing approach to writing, which he apparently explained to Jack Kerouac, who used the approach in his writings and in particular in his work called "on the Road",
which proclaims to be biography in nature, and written from a spontaneous point of view without editing.

William S Borroughs likely was influenced by the Asian philosophy which was on vogue at the time, in all the hip underground cultures, with zen Buddhism being also an influence on the avant garde jazz music scene (such can be found as major influences as minor movements in jazz during the time, such as in Charlie Parkers Free Jazz).

Zen Buddhism is all about learning to let go of the thoughts in your mind that cause you problems.
Learning to let go, so that your thoughts no longer control you, learning to free yourself of thoughts
that otherwise tend to control you and cause you suffering in the long term.

The creatives around this time thought that would be a great idea to pursue.
Alan Watts was a particularly good teacher who was very knowledgeable in Asian Theosophy and particularly skilled at explaining the various religious and philosophical lines of thought to the western laymen.

Worth reading up on or listening to one of his many excellent spoken word tapes.
Also a friend to Timothy Leary, the well know PhD Psychologist who also had a major part to play in creating the US counter culture movement in the 50s and 60s.

I just realized that in response to the title, I should’ve said “I’m write here.”

I used to be into the Beats when I was younger.

I just couldn't live the Kerouac lifestyle. Ginsberg wasn't much good at it, either, by the way

Well I don’t do drugs...

But just wandering around the country meeting people and having grand and also simple experiences would be amazing.

I think there is so much adventure in just spending time with people.

Seeing life through their eyes...their joy, their pain, their greatest heartache. To really see them. See them when they are at ease and the most vulnerable-the genuineness of someone’s soul.

That’s “On the Road” in a nutshell....but they did drink too much and took too many “uppers.”

For the record: in my 20s, I was absolutely IMMERSED in the Beats----especially Kerouac and Ginsberg.

I even wrote poems on the subway for girls and women to read.....and they were of the "stream-of-consciousness" variety.

There an interview with Kerouac on YouTube. It was made in 1969, just before he passed away.

He was the Teletype guy. He typed about 2,000 pages of material into a teletype typewriter, and submitted it to a publisher about 1950. They liked it, but made him edit it down to 500 pages. “On the Road,” with the 500 pages, finally was published in 1957.

Yes, I love writing, editing and reading writing books. I read a great one- Story Trumps Structure- recently.