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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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  • 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
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    • The Book
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    • GALAXY
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    • March from the Dark Side
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November 28, 2025

Fun Friday Resources

November 28, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Fun Friday Resources

In which Fun Friday Resources returns with a useful resource and one that will make you howl with laughter, plus a bonus peek into the minds of the culturally literate…

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Resources, Writing
November 27, 2025

Hey, there, wanna illustrate a children's book?

November 27, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Hey, there, wanna illustrate a children's book?

In which I invite you to join me in making parents everywhere tear up, by illustrating a lovely children’s book…

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November 25, 2025

Fifty years...

November 25, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Fifty years...

In which I offer you a pretty significant gift…

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Christmas Carol
November 19, 2025

A teachable moment

November 19, 2025/ Dale Lyles
A teachable moment

In which a young person’s distress turns into a triumph…

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Unsilent Night
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, Successive Approximation
November 18, 2025

What, never? (Hardly ever...)

November 18, 2025/ Dale Lyles
What, never? (Hardly ever...)

In which I muse about work I will never accomplish…

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Cecil Project, Composing, Day in the Moonlight, Seven Dreams, Ten Little Waltzes, William Blake's Inn
Abandonment
November 12, 2025

What if you're actually not any good at this?

November 12, 2025/ Dale Lyles
What if you're actually not any good at this?

In which I give you a gentle scolding for believing that you’re not good enough to Make the Thing That Is Not…

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Creative Spirit, Lichtenbergianism
November 10, 2025

Little Waltz No. 10: a look at process

November 10, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Little Waltz No. 10: a look at process

In which I drag out the misshapen Little Waltz No. 10 “Finale” and exhibit its pitiful shortcomings for the world to see… with lessons…

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November 10, 2025/ Dale Lyles/ Comment
Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts, Gestalt, King of Hearts Fallacy
November 05, 2025

Back to the Little Waltzes

November 05, 2025/ Dale Lyles
Back to the Little Waltzes

In which I return to the problem of the Finale of Ten Little Waltzes…

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Composing, Ten Little Waltzes
Abortive Attempts
November 03, 2025

When all else fails...

November 03, 2025/ Dale Lyles
When all else fails...

In which I share an antique productivity hack that kept me sane for many years…

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Keep going, Materials, Personal, Strategies
Task Avoidance, Ritual
October 29, 2025

A blast from the past...

October 29, 2025/ Dale Lyles
A blast from the past...

In which I share one of my earliest compositions, an opening number for a bawdy show originally from the darkest corners of 70s off-off-Broadway…

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Composing, Theatre
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  • 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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