1000 Days
I write every day whether I like it or not. In about three years I’ll stop.
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Thusly Began December

December 1st 2008

I expect my posting frequency to get back to daily this week.  My two coding classes no longer have any assignments to turn in and I’m not likely to waste time studying for a test when I could be writing instead.  My paying job continues to be more manageable as well.  It’s nice that I’ll be able to end the day at 5 and to wake up and write rather than log in.

This recent and most devastating bout with non-writing displeases me.  But has my daily short-term writing memory.  I need to quit writing beads and string a necklace.

Day 316

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A Year on the Drenfennelen

November 28th 2008

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Duoroo climbed out of the cool forest and into the open clearing.  She felt her irises tighten from the light.  A rush of movement through the air above her turned into an explosive crack in the dry river bed ahead of her.  She dropped to [...]

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Jealous Honga Rider Turns

November 26th 2008

My thoughts circle this idea like the angels that must orbit just above the vultures waiting on prey to finally die. I don’t want the original idea to pass, but I know it will. I’m ready to capture the soul as it rises from the meat.

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Inspired By But Not Yet About Ogres

November 24th 2008

“We’ve been calling them ogres mostly at Wilcox’s insistence.  Initially the radio chatter and phone calls refer to them as giants.  And I think that’s how you’ve probably been hearing about them up till now.  But…well, Wilcox…you’ll meet him later,” the left-hand staffer said to Dr. Susan Martin, M.E.
“These gentlemen are surprisingly fluent in English, [...]

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Remarkably Like the First 20 Minutes of Hellboy

November 17th 2008

So I have one bad week of writing and that spills over into two.  Gotta better watch out for that.  Though in fairness my salaried job probably ought to trump my writing some days.  Sometimes several in a row.
Recently I outlined that I hardly ever find inspiration outside of others’ visual media: paintings, drawings, and [...]

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A Bell-hunting Interlude

November 11th 2008

http://gorillaartfare.com/2008/11/the-bell/
Charnwyn’s coat tails dangled well below the branch she squatted on.  I loved that jacket.  It was maroon and finely textured—especially the embroidered cuffs.  She wore morning and night.  She wore it each day.  It hung well on her and in many ways defined her to those she’d just met but I wished I’d found [...]

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A Little Auto-Interrogation

November 8th 2008

In Colorado it would be cold.  The wind would be blowing.  There might even be snow.
I’d have lit the oil lamp and tried to resurrect the summer of ‘92 with a mug of chocolate and a book.  I’d have wedged into a corner because the light from the lamp wouldn’t come at the proper angle [...]

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Very Briefly Along a Trail

October 31st 2008

Tesca and Corla dashed along the deer trail contouring the west side of the ridge.  Tesca set the pace out front carrying a shield and Corla followed hefting the spear.  Their sisterly rhythm kept each girl’s foot placing and branch dodging well timed and as effortless as reading a book.
Not as much time to get [...]

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Hell’s Spittle

October 30th 2008

It’s been busy.  I’ll try to get my groove on…
It was not right.  And it made Tesca realize everything was now possible.
Pure sunlight, beginning in the bluest heavens, coursed through the yellow leaves.  Autumn rose to its zenith today at this elevation.  The supremely yellow leaves dyed the light golden and bright—brighter than it had [...]

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Just 307

October 22nd 2008

I didn’t forget to write.  I chose not to write since the morning got away from me while I polishing fingernails.
Only later did I forget to write today.
And now, while I’ve obviously remembered, it’s also rather late for more.
Day 307

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Interrupting Mrs. Xenoworth

October 21st 2008

I have not visited Mr. Johnathan Goffe is quite some time.  I’d like to see what he’s up to this morning.  Last I recall he was headed to some part of town to get some film for his camera.
Grandma followed a different magic than my sister.  Grandma’s enchantments harnessed a deeper power, but they were [...]

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A Title So Dull Even Reverse Psychology Won’t Get You to Read On

October 20th 2008

I’d hoped to be back writing short pieces of truncated scenes this morning as I normally do, but I’ve gotten a late start due to an early start.Maybe some sort of weekend recapitulation is in order.
Our house is clean this morning.  Last week while cleaning resilient wads of red hair from the rollers of our [...]

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Speaking of the Third Wheel

October 17th 2008

I write bad guys infrequently, but I have written about writing them a couple times.  A common situation I have not written not written about writing at all is dialogue with more than two people.  This morning I explore archetypal third speakers.
These speaking roles just come to me as I write them.  I’ve got no [...]

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Punishing Resilience

October 16th 2008

His soul urged him to locate the most valuable object in reach and to break it.  Not to crush it.  Not to destroy it utterly.  Simply break it.  Hobble it.  Make it lame.  Make it a lasting reminder of his foolish idiot whim.  A scream may also quench his seething impotence as well.
He yelled and [...]

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Inward from Outward

October 15th 2008

Apologies to those who grow tired of my protracted not so much writing as meta-writing.  Here I go again today with more of the same.  The one day later proximity of this inspiring painting will play into whatever I may pick out of yesterday’s brainstorming:
http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/10/15/lucong-cong-hua-lu/
She’d a perplexed look like a lover’d puffed a breath in [...]

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How Much Food Do You Need

October 14th 2008

Recently you may have seen a round of ‘earth from above’ pictures looping around the Internet.  Seems like we get a new batch of these every six or nine months.  A couple made it to my ‘inspire’ tag in my reader.  This is one:
http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/efa_10_06/19_tt.jpg
I’ll serve up a bit of brainstorming for you rather than a [...]

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Watching the Wiz

October 13th 2008

Nodding off watching The Wizard of Oz I realized the Tritti/Johnka meeting and story thus far is quite like the Dorothy/Fortune Teller scene early in the movie.  I’ve not read the books, so I have no idea how it matches up that way.
It struck me that unlike the Fortune Teller, Johnka doesn’t make the slightest [...]

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One Sunrise Coming Up Soon

October 10th 2008

Johnka’s loose schedule and plodding pace left Tritti unconvinced hitching a ride with him saved her any more time than traveling alone, on foot, with no provisions.  He rose each morning at the hour when late sleeping early risers woke.  He heated a brass basin of water and shaved his whole round face vigorously, but [...]

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