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Ẃeβ࿚Ẃỉtcĥ  StephBee  "The Bard's Hall Contest"  As I begin prepping this blog post, I'm sitting in a Walmart parking lot, waiting on an order. The din of noisy vehicles and clashing carts only slightly masks the music filtering down from the wall-mounted store radio, which is currently playing the “wrong way on a one-way track” song. Every time I've heard that over the years, I think it's Tom Petty's voice and style. It isn't. It's from Soul Asylum, a 2004 song called Runaway Train. I haven't heard it in a long while, so I fell into the same delusion this time as well until I remembered it. My idea today (at posting time, this means yesterday…) was to write a goals check-in, to let y'all know how I'm doing with that hefty to-do list I ran down at the beginning of the month. So… I'm halfway through Rachel's Beatles Challenge, having written fourteen drabbles (really thirteen and one slightly longer poem.) I completed Merit Badge Magic, Cubby's Writing 4 Kids, and the 48 Hour Media Prompt Challenge. I'm up to date on Promptly Poetry, though nervous at the thought of composing a poem with unspecified iambic meter…  I wrote one out of the five remaining "Reflections" tracks. And I've completed Hook of the Book.Most of these are “small fry” for me, bits of writing under 1k words that get added to a book item or my blog, or in the case of the Book Hook, go solely to a forum. I have potentially three other, more important contests I want to combine the last of Reflections with: Kit’s Share Your Faith, Light in Mind’s Grill a Christian, and the Official WdC contest, which is Quotation Inspiration this month. Last time I entered Quotation Inspiration, in February, I didn't take it seriously enough and ended up shoehorning the offered quote into something which, although a perfectly good story, did not meet the judges expectations. So this month I wanted to either take it seriously, or maybe on the flip side, just relax and have fun writing what I want, without the pressure. It seems like a flexible quote that could lend itself to the final story of Reflections. I thought of bragging about the compliment I received from my new friend Kazi yesterday on "I Get Carried Away" , or how my old friend Jack was impressed with "The Man in the Hat" and will review it today, or being featured in two newsletters this week, but I don't want to be vain or tedious. If there's anything I learned from the kerfuffles last summer, it's an awareness of my tendency to be an obnoxious brat, and that's never a good way to behave.I also thought of chattering excitedly about the process of writing Reflections, because I shared some of that with Brian K Compton in a review earlier, but… it ain't over yet  I would rather look back on it than try to analyze it for others while still in progress. And besides, that should be a separate (lengthy!) entry, which I should probably crosslink with the folder intro… which will need to be rewritten as a proper introduction to what I’ve created, rather than merely an explanation of why I chose that album.One thing I need to keep working on is patience, both here and in real life. I have the disruptive tendency to panic at the beginning of the month, spinning my wheels knocking as many things off my to-do list as quickly as possible, because I'm afraid something terrible will happen and I won't have a chance to do anything anymore. For whatever reason, I fear the fragility and instability of life. This relates to a lack of faith and a tendency towards cynicism and nihilism. I need to find peace and take one day at a time, without anxiety for the future. Here's the Tom Petty sound-alike song to conclude with. I've never listened to it with earbuds, only heard it in my surroundings, so I don't know how much it really resembles Petty's music “up close and personal.” Words: 680. |
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