Interstitiality of FoolQuest.com

This page serves as introduction to FoolQuest.com for interstitial arts.

Definition: What is interstitial? The interstitial arts are not the Avant-garde, or else the interstitial brings forth the truly Avant-garde. The interstitial is not even clearly sui generis, but even less distinct than hybrid, as there are many particular hybrid genres and disciplines. Indeed, the interstitial may defy even hybrid classification by the multiplicity of sources and various definitions, abiding uncomfortably in a peculiar wilderness, the interstice or margins between what is accustomed and clearly defined, falling between, rather than within, the familiar boundaries of accepted genres or media in defiance of marketable expectations. Indeed, bookstores and libraries never know exactly where to shelve the stuff!

That which is interstitial, even in a positive review, typically expends too much ink in necessary explanation before review as such may even begin. Interstitial writing may be Tabloid Weird, but neither Tabloid or weird, but perhaps mainstream Science Fiction, as in Science Fiction with nothing utterly fantastic. The frontiers of the interstitial are challenged not only in literature, but, for examples, by illustrative representation in the medium of jewelry or by abstract pottery, all with no home neither in crafts nor fine art.

Being a central motivation of FoolQuest.com, Positive Psychology to begin with, is interstitial, never mind application thereof. Because Positive Psychology is the study of emotional health and well being rather than pathology, said being the conventional scope of psychology and therapy so crucial and ever better and more broadly provided for in our time. But from the beginning, Psychoanalysis have only striven for the transformation "from hysterical misery to ordinary unhappiness." And today's ordinary psychiatric outpatients, sometimes categorized as: "the worried well" rather than the emotionally sick, demand more. Alas, however, while help and advice is ever plentiful on how to get along, conform and fit in, or else turn ones back upon life completely, even in these United Stated of America, the pursuit of happiness as such remains woefully underserved! For to quote Olmstead: "When all is said and done, much is said and little is done."

Indeed, the effete Zen passive preference for inertia and going with the flow are ever extolled, while the recommendation of Positive Psychology to intentional activity as the key to renewable happiness, will be so often blithely dismissed along with any will to power in life at all. By contrast, FoolQuest.com is solicitation to a unique vision of optimally happy intentional active relationship, out in the interstitial wilderness.

The twelfth Rule of Acquisition: Anything worth doing is worth doing for money.

Transparent entrepreneurship for the rest of us: Alas, aspiring Entrepreneurship is far worse underserved even than successful entrepreneurship, especially for anything more innovative or ambitious than standard, marketable and expected mentorship towards ordinary, dull and straightforward retail operations or service industry. In the interstitial realm of intentionally active applied creativity and even hope for success, the principle interstices inhabited by FoolQuest.com is that of collaboration in pursuit of cutting edge Entrepreneurship in the broadest sense not only of commerce and new business models of Social Entrepreneurship, but of Activism, subversive civics and more, a range of proposals touching upon everything from the futurism of sophisticated personality profiling and connectivity, CliqueBusters, the most radical known anti-bullying proposal, to the space age environmentalism of the Green Pro-Space Agenda, all from the minimum guidelines, commitments and consideration of team building, organization and planning during the most embryonic first concept "kitchen table" phase or stage of new venture creation, an aspiration vastly under served, for various reasons, falling in the interstices even of entrepreneurial culture, services and education all such as currently exist.

Collaborative brainstorming and other related creativity techniques also have their place, either within industry and consulting, or else strictly as light diversion. And again, FoolQuest.com violates expectations and boundaries. Indeed, as another unique and interstitial feature, collaborative brainstorming and other creativity techniques are applied not only to inspire entrepreneurial collaboration as above, but also to the online writer's workshop on FoolQuest.com takes as beginning, with the aim of making the participatory experience of the writer's bull session available and accessible to the online public.

Indeed, FoolQuest.com transgresses the great divide between writing cultures. FoolQuest.com violates every marketable or grant seeking expectation of every category of writing website, professional, educational or entertainment, adult or juvenile. For in the interstitial realm of intentionally active creativity purely for its own joy, one of the principle interstices inhabited by FoolQuest.com are that of proficiency brought to bear upon collaborative fiction writing, a mode of artistic endeavor long hijacked by online dilettante amateurism, indeed by actual process methodologies of guaranteed execrably bad writing.

Even amid the surging effluence, there has always endured excellence even in fanfic. After all, good writing, however rare, knows no bounds.

But collaborative fiction writing (of fanfic or in any other genre) fares far worse. How so? Answer: There are two basic kinds of writers groups. One is worthlessly modeled upon the support group in its most dishonestly corrupt form, brooking no deviance from endless reciprocal marshmallow throwing, the exchange of obsequiously sycophantic kneejerk insincere positive strokes, false sympathy, a sickly sweet brush off of bland encouragement and sucking up to unconditionally effusive praise. And the other is an exchange of true valuable genuine and even ruthless critique, ongoing fault finding and improvement.

Because, as the saying goes, writing is rewriting and never a waste of time. But, typically, any group effort at generating fiction online, lacks both revision and critique, often demanding the most relentless marshmallow throwing in flagrant rejection of every discipline of the writing craft. Hence the unique online writer's workshop on FoolQuest.com begins from a complete overhaul of rigid and dysfunctional process methodologies of guaranteed execrably bad writing, in order to realize the best and most exciting potential of collaborative fiction writing.