ARTICLE: Curse Of The Right First Time

An overdose of criticality

By Mark Cantrell

 

ONE of these days I’ll figure out how to switch off.

 

No, I’m not talking about relaxing, well not exactly, but stepping out of this world and into the ‘zone’. That’s the place where the state of consciousness alters when the muse is in full flow – at least until the inability to power down the critical faculties crashes me back down to Earth.

 

When the words flood the screen there’s a kind o...