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or torture a cantaloupe
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Or tie up a paragraph and slowly strip away its protective commas, tease its helpless participles...
wildsweetone
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that's not as daft as it sounds. i use writing a lot, to let off steam. i have full control over what i do with it after i've written it. usually i let it sit for 24 hours and then store it away somewhere rather than biting people's heads off.
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that's not as daft as it sounds. i use writing a lot, to let off steam. i have full control over what i do with it after i've written it. usually i let it sit for 24 hours and then store it away somewhere rather than biting people's heads off.
Yeah.
Did a little of that. Something I'd been stuck on for a few weeks, not getting anywhere, but unable to let go of it; then suddenly, this evening funneled the head-ripping temptation into some somewhat tantalizing directions. Shared some of the highlights with my wife. Every time I do that she says I need to actually finish a book. Then I start getting excited again, and feeling free again, start getting back into my own little groove, which I always happened to like. I think it just happens to be a feel that's overall contrary to the main mission of Lit. But I've met a few who make it worthwhile. And Laurel herself has always been very encouraging and assures me I'm welcome to hang out and try just about whatever I want. That alone is pretty sweet. Better than the original idea.
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Dilemmas do persist.
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That's the thing. Everyday is a dilemma. So in search of something that might appear as a solution... you know, look here, look there, inside, outside. One day think everything's all together, the next day it's all in scattered pieces. It isn't that it's best to rely on an outside source, but you know, check out what they have to say. And they conflict. Who to believe? It gets very confusing very fast.
UnderYourSpell
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Perhaps it's when the rut gets muddy that things go haywire
EroticOrogeny
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Sometimes the little things can make a big difference - am I getting enough to eat or sleeping enough? My outlook can change rapidly once I take carw of the little things.
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Well it is a little thing really. That's the kicker. I'm more pissed off at myself for getting pissed off about it than I am pissed off at what I see/saw that pissed me off. Because it is a little thing. They think they're right. I think they're wrong. In my mind I'm laying into 'em and setting 'em straight and it feels really good. But in reality? What would it accomplish? Nothing. They'd still think they were right and I'd still think they were wrong.
So WSO was the wise one (as always
), (and your advice is true and welcome too): try to come up with something that feels and looks good and interesting to me, and maybe or maybe not give it to Lit. Main thing is to enjoy the journey (easy to say). There's also the ol' guitar... never fails. Put down a thing which is really very simple chord-wise. But I'm having a helluva time figuring out the lead stuff. Which is good. Something to spend plenty of time tinkering with. One thing I know: when I do find it, it'll turn out to be real simple, and it'll then seem so obvious. Maybe there's something going on in the brain that unconsciously complicates things just to have a new maze to get through or a puzzle to spend a winter with. Maybe?
So it's all grand.
Thanks.
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It's indeed a tough call: the more tools and toys you have and know how to handily work with, the more you're able to actually do, but the closer you are to the beginning that's more time you get to spend nibbling at the pie. Something like that.
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Just a quick "hi." Been crazy busy with schoolwork and work for clients as well as my own projects and websites. Oh, and I got engaged.
I'm trying to spend what little free time I have in positive places, not where people rip apart everything you say. I assume any of hmmnmmish's threads are still decent places.
(((Annie)))
(((hmmnmmish)))
Take care!
I'm trying to spend what little free time I have in positive places, not where people rip apart everything you say. I assume any of hmmnmmish's threads are still decent places.
(((Annie)))
(((hmmnmmish)))
Take care!
UnderYourSpell
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You got engaged?!! Whoooo hooooooo you slip it into the post with a little snippet! CONGRATULATIONS my friend!!!!
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Decent?
Now this is a perfect example. Someone else (someone I didn't really know, hadn't traded neighborly dialog with) may have used the same word and I'd read it as other than what I know you meant.
But I hope it's relatively decent, the good kind of decent. I try. Really do. But standards vary from person to person so...? You really can't please everybody, and I'll wager that the one who does please everybody is not someone I'd want to babysit the dog or watch over my earthly possessions (if I had any).
Really good to see you, missed you, and double dollops of creamy congrats on your engagement.
PandoraGlitters
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Wow UYS you go!! I am amazed. I feel like such a slacker, now. But it's good. I glory in your energy and commitment.
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ty Annie & hmmnmmish
and hmmnmmish, it your threads have conflict, it's actually no reflection on you. I thought about that as I typed, but I didn't want to get into all that. Anywhere there is a group of individuals, there's bound to be ocassional conflict.. but normal, mature, conversational conflict wasn't really what I was referring to, as I think you know.
Anyway, I am off to do my writing for today. I did so much writing yesterday, one of my fingers is rebelling. I can imagine it saying something along the lines of- "Bloody hell, i ain't doing any more fuckin typing."
I may end up with a mutiny here...
and hmmnmmish, it your threads have conflict, it's actually no reflection on you. I thought about that as I typed, but I didn't want to get into all that. Anywhere there is a group of individuals, there's bound to be ocassional conflict.. but normal, mature, conversational conflict wasn't really what I was referring to, as I think you know.
Anyway, I am off to do my writing for today. I did so much writing yesterday, one of my fingers is rebelling. I can imagine it saying something along the lines of- "Bloody hell, i ain't doing any more fuckin typing."
I may end up with a mutiny here...
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the dual and unspoken purpose here is for procrastinators to find and use a safe and understanding procrastinating environment, wherein they will not be harshly judged by other procrastinators.
the conflicts to which I refer are inner; an endless quest to make even some feeble sense of... anything, and yeah, I know, the best voice to go by is one's own, but you check out what others who are far more advanced have to say, maybe a few flecks will fall in your hand and if you can try to integrate just one of the flecks, maybe, just maybe, it might bear fruit.
Like, I recall reading what Sinclair Lewis advised and at the time it seemed pretty good, and I attempted to integrate it, though poorly, though, as he said, following his suggestions would not automatically guarantee quality literary productions, but there would be wonderful benefits anyway. Sounds like a plan to me. I tried to incorporate some of his suggestions when I could remember.
I imagine he'd not approve of my sitting here staring at this screen. He'd direct my attentions to the view through the window, sternly suggest that I'm squandering a precious opportunity to go and engage my senses, that it's really a day for a long walk. Or at least watch the clouds, study their shapes and their movements. The trees, the hills, the distant mountains, the colors, the textures, the details, the overviews, the branches, the leaves, the breezes, the stillness, the apple trees and the pine trees, the ordinary, the spectacular, the dull and the bright... and even if, after all that, I came back and wrote not one whit better than before, it would be a no-lose investment of time and energies.
I'm trying to think of why I should not consider such wisdom, and can't really find it.
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Yep.
Penetration.
Good advice.
Thanks.
Beautiful day.
Penetration.
Good advice.
Thanks.
Beautiful day.
UnderYourSpell
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Wow UYS you go!! I am amazed. I feel like such a slacker, now. But it's good. I glory in your energy and commitment.
Slacker? You? Neverrrrrrrrr ! I've seen you writing all over the place and I'll tell you a secret I like the form poetry (well most of it!) the forms give a structure to be adhered to I only have go find a word or two here and there to stick into that structure
EroticOrogeny
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UnderYourSpell
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Nil carborundum illigitemis
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Ha!
Got it!
Been on the opening paragraph for about three weeks. Didn't look like much there, but I felt something there. But how to get to it? Couldn't get in. But couldn't let go. Very very frustrating. Nothing I tried went anywhere. Tried all kinds of ploys and approaches. Nothing. Rejection. No cooperation. Every day. Every morning. Every evening. Nothing.
When all of a sudden... bang, she opened for me and we're rockin.
All the sweeter after all the frustration.
Wishing a great day to all.
Got it!
Been on the opening paragraph for about three weeks. Didn't look like much there, but I felt something there. But how to get to it? Couldn't get in. But couldn't let go. Very very frustrating. Nothing I tried went anywhere. Tried all kinds of ploys and approaches. Nothing. Rejection. No cooperation. Every day. Every morning. Every evening. Nothing.
When all of a sudden... bang, she opened for me and we're rockin.
All the sweeter after all the frustration.
Wishing a great day to all.
UnderYourSpell
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You pressed her buttons just right today!
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Wow! the opening sentence (so far) involves just that: a button being pushed. A fingertip touching the button. A manicured finger of course, no rough edges, the fleshy tip. Fingertip touches the button and makes a sound come out of a speaker.
Well, better not give it away...
Great feeling though.
Carry on.
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Feels good to have command of the situation.
Well, back to biz
Well, back to biz
