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How to Write your own Luccaph
Aphorisms are for everyone. Be bold. Trust yourself.
Special thoughts and images come to you when you least expect them. They must be captured immediately.
To catch them, you need a piece of paper and pencil that goes with you everywhere, even on a night-table while you sleep. A little notebook, a hand-held computer, or a digital voice recorder is ok as long as it doesn't become a burden and is left behind.
The trick is to express the thought in as few words as possible.
When you have time, type your aphorisms into a computer word processor. Each aphorism must be separated by an asterisk * (or other unique symbol) so the computer and reader can recognize it as a separate aphorism. Always make backups and backups of backups (both on paper and on a hard disk), since your aphorisms probably won't easily come back to you if your computer ever loses them.
Patiently move (Highlight, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V ) your "best" aphorisms to the beginning of your collection. (Be careful not to lose them in the process!) Between 10 to 100 "best" aphorisms should be sufficient. In this way your readers can see if they are interested in reading further.
Publish your luccaph on the internet by just adding it to a personal webpage or blog. Being a unique word, if you add "luccaph" in the title or subtitle of your collection it can easily be found with search engines.
If you've written many aphorisms over many years, it may make sense to split the collection into groups of years, for example, Luccaph (1995-2007) and Luccaph (2008-2009). The older ones remain fixed while the most recent one receives new aphorisms.
The luccaph is just one big unnamed bag of thoughts linked to one person. It requires very little work. You catch a thought and throw it in the bag. Later you move a few representative “best” aphorisms to the top of the bag. Your aphorisms speak for themselves, by themselves.
Example of a Luccaph on the Internet
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