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IS IT SAFE TO LOOK AT THE MOON?

by elephantsealer

Rated: E · Book · Entertainment · #1932477

It is a waste to ignore the musings of the mind.

Writing is the communication of the writer's hopes and dreams. To write is to express the laughter, the tears, the joys of the heart. It is the writer's desire to communicate all his feelings and desires in her/her heart to a reader.

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8 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Kåre Enga in Montana

Aug 24, 2021 at 3:28pm
In response to "This Is Our World"

It's time for an update! Yep... it was too early to celebrate because certain people refused to get vaxxed and showed up at the party covid-drunk. *sigh*

En serio, time to fire up the ire and rant another entry!

Kåre Enga in Montana

Aug 20, 2021 at 12:37am
In response to "This Is Our World"

Reading this in August is ... amusing (but not in a good way). Over 6 months have passed. I had my J&J jab in April and was hoping to be traveling by now. But ... all that optimism has vanished. I'm back to wearing masks.

Yes, this rosy future could've happened. But some of the anti-maskers and anti-vaxxers are irrational and unreachable. Montana is having a severe outbreak in Kalispell (Glacier Park) and here in Missoula we are running out of beds. I know of two cases of health professionals (dentist, PT) who tested positive in the last week. This does not bode well.

Montanans made a choice.

Kåre Enga in Montana

Jan 16, 2021 at 1:09pm
In response to "A World of People"

Difficult times bring out the best and the worse.

This pandemic is exposing some our worse attributes. We refuse to think rationally or consider others. Hysteria and selfishness...

The problem, of course, isn't the virus.

Be rational. Be kind.

drifter

Jul 24, 2015 at 10:33pm
In response to "Long Ago, In the Mountains"

I work as a caregiver of one who is chronically ill. At times I wonder why I keep going back. I guess I care a lot more than I realized

elephantsealer

Jun 7, 2015 at 1:06am
In response to "Long Ago, In the Mountains (continued)"

Hello River,

Thank you for reading my blog. Yes, I plan to continue the saga of "Long Ago, in the Mountains". I have been a bit busy during these last few days. I am definitely continuing with the story.

Thanks again.

River

May 12, 2015 at 7:10am
In response to "Long Ago, In the Mountains (continued)"

I just discovered your blog, and I'm enjoying "Long Ago, In the Mountains" I hope you're going to keep going with this story because I so want to read what happens next!

Steev the Friction Wizurd

Nov 13, 2014 at 3:54am
In response to "What Matters Most"

Children do deserve to be loved and cared for, but unfortunately they sometimes get stuck with adults who don't know how to do that very well.

Nothing makes me angrier than seeing a parent mistreat a child through neglect and indifference. Often the child is trapped in the house with a cold adult, whereas the adult is free to escape the situation as they please. It's not surprising that children would have fantasies of "running away".

Steev the Friction Wizurd

Jun 18, 2013 at 4:51pm
In response to "What is melodrama, and why is it bad in a story?"

In my opinion, what would make a melodramatic scene good or bad would be whether or not it is consistent with the story.

I'll give you an example from Hollywood. I was watching an old black&white movie intended for kids and there was a scene where some kids were hiding in a basement and trying to be quiet because bad men were poking around. They had a dog who wanted to bark so one kid clamped his hand over the dog's mouth to keep him quiet. Finally it was safe. The bad men had left. But the one kid was crying because his dog was dead. He had smothered it to death.

I thought THAT IS SO WRONG! It's just so out of place, doesn't fit, runs completely against the tone of the movie. The movie lost all credibility for me. I could only mock it after that.

Same thing in a novel. If you write a scene that is glaringly out of place, you ruin the novel.

There is nothing wrong with a melodramatic scene if it's in a melodramatic novel.

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#68. A Story of Life
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#67. The Memory of War.
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#66. The Boy at My Corner
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#65. Silence is Sweet
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#64. What Gives?
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#62. Dream Destination
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#61. Hello, South America
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#60. Long Ago, in the Mountains (continued)
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#59. Goodbye to 2015 and Hello to 2016
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#58. My Wish for Writing.com
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#57. Long Ago, in the Mountains
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#54. Long Ago, In the Mountains
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#49. Long Ago, In the Mountains (Continued)
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#47. Life in the Green
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#46. Cruising to Hawaii
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#45. The New Year
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#44. Is There A Heart That Doesn't Cry?
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#43. What Matters Most
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#42. Cruising
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#41. Cruising Down the River
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#40. A Work of Art
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#39. The Way Home
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#37. A Question of Worth
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#35. What Makes Us Selfish?
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#34. The Artist in the Writer
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#33. Small Acts of Kindness
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#29. A Question of Insult
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#28. The Loss
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#27. What Is Your Goal?
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#26. Before We Lose Control
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#25. The Story So Far
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#24. What's New?
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#23. Christmas and The Celebration
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#22. The Time To Be Grateful
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#21. Of Birthdays
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#20. Once Someone Asked Me
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#19. The Art of Humankindness
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#18. The Art of Critiquing
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#17. All about the children
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#16. The Harvest Moon
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#15. The Harvest Moon
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#14. The Harvest Moon
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#13. In A Faraway Land
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#12. In A Faraway Land of Dreams
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#11. Why Forgive and Forget?
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#10. In The Land of Hardship
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#9. Writing and Reading, What Do These Mean?
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#8. One Bright Moon Tonight
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#7. What is melodrama, and why is it bad in a story?
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#6. Writing, Yesterday and Today
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#4. Where Have All the Soldiers Gone?
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#3. The Scream of Madness
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#1. Ignore the musings of the mind? A waste!
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