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    • 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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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/
February 18, 2026

Make it easy

February 18, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Make it easy

In which I assure you there’s no problem with your not being a genius…

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Costuming, Creative Spirit, Scenius
Audience
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 11, 2026

The life you save may be your own

February 11, 2026/ Dale Lyles
The life you save may be your own

In which I encourage all of you to find a support system like Backstreet Community Arts…

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Backstreet Writers, Creative Spirit
February 09, 2026

Funny Things

February 09, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Funny Things

In which I once again hammer the point that creativity ≠ training, and encourage you to make “funny things”…

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Lessons from the Folk
Make The Thing That Is Not
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 04, 2026

I'm a fraud... and so can you!

February 04, 2026/ Dale Lyles
I'm a fraud... and so can you!

In which I give you permission to become a fraud like me…

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Creative Spirit, Lichtenbergianism
Audience
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 26, 2026

Have a little Figaro...

January 26, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Have a little Figaro...

In which I share (again) my translation of “Marriage of Figaro,” this time with a bonus video…

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Marriage of Figaro
Abandonment
January 23, 2026

Fun Friday Resources

January 23, 2026/ Dale Lyles
Fun Friday Resources

In which I give you some interesting resources as well as another lesson on STEALING FROM THE BEST (also sexing frogs)…

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Resources
Steal from the Best
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  • 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/

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