Roussel and Smith Reading

I found it hard to understand How I Wrote Certain Of My Books author Raymound Roussel was trying to get across compared to Hazel Smith’s article. I could better understand Hazel Smith’s playing around with words. She states in the beginning of the Chapter first page that this chapter wants one to play around with language and get ideas by manipulating words. She basically is stating that you don’t need to know right away what you want to write about but if you play with language and words it will come to you. But with Roussel’s reading it was over my head, I don’t know what he was trying to say about writing. Hazel Smith used some great examples in her reading especially on page 6, example 1.1 Association by sound and page 7, example 1.3, Dissociation.and on same page, example 1.4, Leapfrogging examples such as: greenpeace, peace talk, talkback, backdrop. So I found her reading easy to understand and what she was implying as a creative tool to writing.