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 |  You are what you write. Illusion and Reality...I reside in between. Where are you? |
UNDERSTAND THAT REDIRECTING CIVILIZATION is a major undertaking. You can write volumes about it and who will listen? But the energy that goes for that purpose cannot be withdrawn. You know that.  |
Prompt: This month is Mickey Mouse's Birthday. . Let's write about him and his friends In 1940 I was four years old. Mickey Mouse had declined in popularity. Mr. Disney created an elaborate short film called, The Sorcerer's Apprentice to promote Mickey. The film became so expensive, Disney decided to include it into a full length feature called, Fantasia. The film premiered on November 13, 1940. I was taken to see the new Disney feature some months later. This became the first commercial film to feature true stereophonic sound. The Sorcerer's Apprentice was based on Goethe's 1797 poem "Der Zauberlehrling". Mickey Mouse, the young apprentice of the sorcerer Yen Sid, attempts some of his master's magic tricks but doesn't know how to control them. Everything goes into wild, frighting animation. Never having seen anything like this before, the fantastic images combined with such realistic sounds terrified me. Screaming and crying I had to be taken out of the theater. Those were my first memories about Mickey Mouse. As of 2012, Fantasia has grossed $76.4 million in domestic revenue and is the 22nd highest-grossing film of all time in the U.S. when adjusted for inflation. The film has been re-mastered and re-released many times. I believe it was the first of many projects where Disney stimulated our imagination and wonder. Peace... >>>iggy  ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable **   |
Prompt: If you could be a cast member on any TV Show, which one would it be? Here;s my hard reality: I do not have television. I have hardly seen any English-language television for the past six years. I feel very out of touch with the current batch of entertainment, other than the scandal and gossip news on the Internet about the actors. I watched Press-TV in Tehran, which is in English, but it is only news and documentaries. There was a great Korean serial historical-drama that was wonderful, but it was dubbed into Arabic. Here in Belize there's a big-screen television on the wall in the restaurant at the marina, but it always is showing terrible music videos or advertisements. But actually I'd like to be a cast member of "Big Bang" and get the 1M weekly paycheck! I am not complaining. I don't miss the television, but then I guess I'm adaptable. But you know---there are great stories in books, and I read a lot! Peace... >>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Prompt: Do you use flashbacks or flash-forwards in your fictional and true stories? How or why, do you think, they are important, if at all? Prompt: Write about an experience that led you to change a deep-held opinion or belief about what life is. I can falsh-back to the early 1970's when I took Werner Erhard's est training in Los Angeles. That changed everything. That's when I learned about personal responsibility for how I perceive myself, the world and others. Then my life opened up---international film jobs, teaching, travel. I've never looked back. (There's more, but I'm not going to say more.) A prompt about the meaning of life is really too big for a blog. People spend their lives studying and writing about such things. But est was the closest I came to such an important understanding that we all should have. In my writing a flash-back sometimes is necessary if there is a back story that the reader has to understand or know about. In a long novel, a quick flash-back reminds the reader of something that happened early in the book, especially with multiple characters or events. In our own personal life, everything in the past is a kind of flashback as we remember EVERYTHING within our memory. It's how our brain works, so it is very important! Dementia is a form of flash-back failure. Science-Fiction is a form of speculative flash-forward. Think about that! Peace... >>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Yes, I was reading again, another blog I follow. What is point of view? How do you find that perfect voice in your story? Do you agree with how the author explained it? Do you prefer a particular tense when writing? I agree with the important points made by warriorwriters at WordPress. I have experienced extreme difficulty with my characters in Apex Project. There are moments when the living persons have awake, past-life visions. When they record their remembrance of the event, my usual Third-Person Shifting must change to first person POV for the transcription. Then within their narration they become their past-life persona. Some of it is past tense remembrance and some of it is present tense, happening now. I worked it out with a lot of help. I will never look at a POV the same. I did a lot of editing and deleting and rewriting to make it correct. The difference is that when reading the story flows without interruption and the reader stays with whoever has the POV. The omniscient P.O.V. is very wonderful or it can be deadly if the writer starts expanding their stream of consciousness. When I can I try to play the scene with the characters and real dialogue. See the event or moment rather than tell about it. The narrative voice is great to smooth quickly over boring or repetitive information. The other danger I've experienced is the omniscient POV easily can slip into a very boring passive voice. If there are more than two 'was' in a paragraph, I get really nervous. In blogging, we tend to stick with first person voice almost all the time. It is like talking to the reader---sometimes friends, sometimes total strangers. If they can read the blog, understand your point of view, and get to the end...hooray! So that's my contribution for today. Peace... >>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Saw an interesting blog today about finding your authentic writing voice. The author suggests a writer list the first three things that come to mind when you're asked to describe yourself/your writing. Read something you wrote recently. Do you hear any of those descriptors? You should, if you're writing openly. What do you think of her advice? Suddenly the calm is shattered; my heart seizes and beats frantically as we sweep down toward the earth. Falling so fast, the sound of air, whistle-rising, roars around us. So fast! I close my eyes, giving my life to the gods, to the goddess. I fear to see the end. Then like a giant swan upon the water, we land on the desert plain, gentle and soundless. I can see the great rock rising above us like a lone sentinel in the flatness of the plain, the top glowing gold in the first rays of the morning sun. I can smell the earthy tang of vegetation and riverbank mud. There is life here in this wild, lonely place that is to be my home. The machine stirs and my lord and master climbs out of the front compartment, his long robes gathered over one arm and the still glowing power stone in the other. Now I am impatient for this life to begin. The above two paragraphs are part of the Prelude to the Apex Project. This is a finished novel in the throes of final editing and reviewing with WYRM group. I have not made it public to WDC yet. I feel these words help represent the 'Voice' I am attempting to maintain. I write fantasy and science fiction and I guess historical style (Knights of Sparrow). I like swords and horses too. I want to be a strict story-teller without getting into a lot of personal philosophy or ideas piled in. I write a representation of reality, wanting it to be very believable so when the story twists into something spiritual or advanced technology, it will be justified and logical. I write about advanced human abilities, reincarnation, adventure and action without a lot of violence except when absolutely necessary. I write about love, but not so much sex. I believe my words must, MUST, carry the reader along without interruption. My characters are detailed, and I hope they become real persons as the story progresses. Sometimes they are inspired by people I have known, or they come from a horoscope, or a news story. I find that my characters often have a mind of their own. I love the creative part and the planning and working the puzzle pieces together into a coherent whole. Editing is truly painful. My mind fights that kind of focus, but I'm learning thanks to my friends at "WYRM"  . In-depth reviewing is an art.Having worked for most of my life in theater and films, I tend to see my writing as images. If you don't see an image, I've done something wrong. As they say around here, "Write on!" >>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: "Nothing is impossible when the word itself says I'm possible." Audrey Hepburn Do you agree with this statement? Play on the word's spelling? Ms Hepburn certainly found success within her world. I can't agree totally with the statement. We all know that some things are impossible. A world that works for everyone is at the top of the list! I would note that within WDC, which is like a country unto itself, to say nothing is impossible is nearly true. For the world of writers nothing is impossible. Write on...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: The year is 2214 and your computer's dusty hard drive shows up at an antique store. Write a note to the buyer what they will find in there. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: I have been asked to donate this computer to the Time Capsule of 2014 to be sealed in the cast concrete foundation of the new Shanghai Tower, located in the Chinese city of Shanghai. For those of you who recover this device, I know it will appear to be a quaint, artifact. But know that this 'computer technology' changed the societies of Earth from mechanical to digital and made possible the first steps toward artificial intelligence. From our 2014 Remote Viewers we have learned that in 2112 humans merged with the highly evolved AI entities and look on our twenty-first century civilization as beling very primative and barbaric. It is our intention that you study the contents of this computer with an open mind. It contains a very complete history of the last one-thousand years, up until 2014. It is our fervent prayer that this history does not repeat itself. There is a selection of photographs of the most beautiful places on the planet. We hope they still exist and you also are enjoying the same. There is also a collection of photographs of the most desperate and destroyed locations on this Earth. We again pray that you have been able to restore the original beauty and wonder of those places. With great respect and best wishes, >>>iggy (Earth, 2014) ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Let's talk " Many of us associate keeping a diary with our emotionally volatile teenage years. But new research suggests that recording our run-of-the-mill, daily experiences, rather than just our highs and lows, could bring us unexpected joy." Do you agree or disagree? Do you keep a diary ? I don't know about unexpected joy, but the wealth of information I have kept in a journal is the only accurate record of my life. Never called it a diary, always referred to it as a journal. Started out as handwritten...now I use software that actually calls it a diary. (iDailyDairy - Splinterware Software Solutions) I think I started about 1974 on a film job in Iran. From then on I traveled so much, met so many people, had so many projects and jobs, I never would be able to remember all that without my journals. The old journal books are in a trunk in Wyoming. The use of software is a wonderful improvement. Of course the additional of digital photography is a supplement to the journals. Filed by years, it is a resource I use constantly. And now that we use email instead of written letters, there is no documented record other than the copies of the emails. Before you hit 'delete,' think about it. Write on...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog City Prompt: Have you ever been cruel to be kind? For example, have you told someone the truth, knowing you would upset them? If you don’t want to write about yourself, you can always generalize. I live in a third-world country. No matter how down I dress, I am identified as a foreign-born person. I am an instant target for beggars and panhandlers, taxi drivers, and poor-shop owners and sidewalk sellers. There are also crippled people in wheelchairs along the sidewalk as well as young women with infants. I just live off my SS and pension and the rare royalties from my published books. I must tell all of these poverty-stricken folks, "No, I have no money for you." It's easy to pick out the legitimate ones. The others are the same every day on the same spot in the street. The tourist season is just starting today. For the summer there will be an average of six cruise ships stopping here each week. That means about ten to fifteen thousand tourists will descend on Belize within each five days. The above mentioned poor folks have a field day running their beggings, pleadings, scams, on anyone venturing outside the restricted tourist village or departing on the hundreds of tour buses and vans. I assume they are surviving off the generosity of the visitors. The tourists on booked tours and experiences are never exposed to the street folk. And I guess it's pretty much the same the world over. In Belize it is not all bad or sad. There are many church organizations who have missions here. All of the schools are religious sponsored. The younger generations are cared for. And out of the city, the atmosphere is much healthier and progressive. Something about cities and the hopelessness that happens. Hard to understand the level of cruelty that implies. Peace....>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
Blog CityPrompt: If you had to get locked in some place (book store, grocery store, a church, amusement park, etc) overnight alone, where would you choose to be locked in? Of course, A BOOK STORE! I'm living in a country where I have not found even one book store. There are some libraries with a limited supply of new publications. My only source is Kindel, which is great. But that's not the same as browsing in a book store. I used to love the bargin-discount tables. That's about the most I miss about living in a real city. The other thing about Belize is that there are no movie theaters. Only I see DVDs borrowed from friends. I don't ;have television on the boat, but I see that TV has replaced the movies completely. People make films using their SmartPhone. Go figure. What a world we live in. Blog on...>>>iggy ** Image ID #1264233 Unavailable ** |
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