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    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
    • Self Assessment
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    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
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    • The Compleat Period Dancer
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    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
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Lichtenbergianism
  • Home/
  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
    • Self Assessment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
    • Bug!
    • The Compleat Period Dancer
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/
October 21, 2026

Flashback to another children's book

October 21, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Flashback to another children's book

In which I share a “book” I “wrote” to help teach kindergartners the basic colors…

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October 21, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Writing, Education
Audience
October 19, 2026

Lessons from A Bug's Dream

October 19, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Lessons from A Bug's Dream

In which I lay bare the Lichtenbergian processes involved in the completion of “A Bug’s Dream,” the third volume in the universally-beloved, award-winning** series the BugVerse Chronicles…

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October 19, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Bug, Writing, Beethoven Blueprint
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation, Abandonment
October 16, 2026

Fun Friday Resources

October 16, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Fun Friday Resources

In which I share complete tutorials for my favorite authoring software, some staggering earth sculpture, and movie posters…

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Writing, Resources, Bug
Steal from the Best
September 28, 2026

The purpose of art is...

September 28, 2026/ Dale Lyles
The purpose of art is...

In which I muse on the purpose of art/literature in our lives…

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September 28, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Lessons from the Folk, Writing
Ritual
August 31, 2026

Bug's Nap — Illustratoring update

August 31, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Bug's Nap — Illustratoring update

In which I update you on my progress in my illustratoring of “A Bug’s Nap,” the next in the beloved BugVerse series (spoiler alert: I got a new toy!)…

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August 31, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Bug, Writing
Abortive Attempts
August 26, 2026

Do you even Lichtenberg, bro?

August 26, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Do you even Lichtenberg, bro?

In which I proudly list every project of mine, real or imagined, that exists in the realm of Lichtenbergian TASK AVOIDANCE…

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August 26, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Backstreet Writers, Beethoven Blueprint, Bug, Cecil Project, Composing, Creative Spirit, Day in the Moonlight, Failure, Keep going, Lichtenbergianism, Music, Proposed Efforts, Seven Dreams, Unsilent Night, Writing
Task Avoidance
August 24, 2026

Bug's Nap — The Illustratoring

August 24, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Bug's Nap — The Illustratoring

In which I belatedly chat about illustrating the next Bug book, “A Bug’s Nap”…

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August 24, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Bug, Writing
Abortive Attempts, Successive Approximation
August 17, 2026

Bug's Nap — The Writering

August 17, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Bug's Nap — The Writering

In which I go back over the process I followed in creating “A Bug’s Nap,” the next in the BugVerse children’s series…

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August 17, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Bug, Writing, Lichtenbergianism
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation, Waste Books
August 12, 2026

Doing the Bug thing, book 2

August 12, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Doing the Bug thing, book 2

In which I offer an object lesson in the Lichtenbergian creative process (pro tip: It’s just the creative process)…

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Bug, Writing
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt
August 10, 2026

Welcome to the BugVerse!

August 10, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Welcome to the BugVerse!

In which I give you advance notice of the next four books in the BugVerse…

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August 10, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Bug, Writing
Abortive Attempts
  • Next
  • Home/
  • What?/
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 1
    • Lichtenbergianism: Step 2
    • Glossary
  • Blog/
  • The Nine Precepts/
    • 0. The Airport Version
    • 1. Task Avoidance
    • 2. Waste Books
    • 3. Abortive Attempts
    • 4. Gestalt
    • 5. Successive Approximation
    • 6. Ritual
    • 7. Steal from the Best
    • 8. Audience
    • 9. Abandonment
    • Self Assessment
  • The Books/
    • The Book
    • Young Person's Guide
    • Bug!
    • The Compleat Period Dancer
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/

Lichtenbergianism

Welcome to Lichtenbergianism, where you can find your creative energy through procrastination!

 
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