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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
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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
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/
April 13, 2026

Excited? Sure.

April 13, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Excited? Sure.

In which I prepare to move to the next project…

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April 13, 2026/ Dale Lyles/ 1 Comment
Composing
Abortive Attempts
April 06, 2026

Readers Write

April 06, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Readers Write

In which I give you a quick writing assignment using The Sun magazine’s excellent Readers Write section as a model…

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Creative Spirit, Writing, Backstreet Writers
Abortive Attempts
April 01, 2026

Swing Hard

April 01, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Swing Hard

In which I give you some exhortatory encouragement…

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Creative Spirit
Abortive Attempts
March 30, 2026

So that went well!

March 30, 2026/ Dale Lyles
So that went well!

In which I write about the differences between my imagined scenarios for “Ten Little Waltzes” and the actual performances…

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Abandonment, Audience, Abortive Attempts
February 16, 2026

Serves me right for asking

February 16, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Serves me right for asking

In which I foolishly invite you to follow along as I write two “show-stopping dance numbers” for a show that doesn’t exist… in Beijing…

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Composing, Collaboration
Abortive Attempts, Steal from the Best
February 06, 2026

Eleven years later...

February 06, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Eleven years later...

In which I raise a glass to having started writing “Lichtenbergianism: procrastination as a creative strategy” on this date…

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Lichtenbergianism
Waste Books, Abortive Attempts
February 03, 2026

Just vamping here for a bit...

February 03, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Just vamping here for a bit...

In which I have no pressing issue about which to write, so I just gossip a little bit about that guy Mike Funt who’s always asking me to write music for him…

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Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
January 28, 2026

Tranquillo: a beginning

January 28, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Tranquillo: a beginning

In which I begin working on “Ten Little Waltzes” with an ABORTIVE ATTEMPT of floaty dance scarf thingies…

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Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
January 20, 2026

So you didn't go to art school...

January 20, 2026/ Dale Lyles
So you didn't go to art school...

In which I gently rid you of the notion that you can’t Make the Thing That Is Not because you haven’t been to conservatory…

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Creative Spirit, Lichtenbergianism, Lessons from the Folk
Abortive Attempts
January 14, 2026

Getting through

January 14, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Getting through

In which I pick up an ABANDONED ABORTIVE ATTEMPT and use it to conquer Dorico — Excelsior!…

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Composing
Abandonment, 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
  • About/Now/
  • Burn Projects/
    • GALAXY
    • GALAXY Soundtrack
    • March from the Dark Side
  • Contact/Hire Me/

Lichtenbergianism

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