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 Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life. |
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I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance? I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them. Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog. |
| In the spirit of continuity from one blog post to another, it’s still October. Whether that turns out to be a good thing or not is a matter of “time will tell”. Continuity is a good thing. In writing a story, for instance. You can’t have your character who lives on the beach, suddenly being lost in the woods. Well, not without sending him on a trip. Maybe if you’re a popular writer, you could get away with it. I guess that popularity was the deciding factor when they cast the five-foot seven-inch Tom Cruise to play Jack Reacher who is supposed to be six-foot five. The Dick Van Dyke Show is one of my favorite television shows of all time and they sucked at continuity. For one thing, they loved flashback episodes, but the past was never the same. They lived in different places, had different parents, friends, etc. and sometimes the past itself had a different plot line than before. They used the same actors as different characters in different episodes - sometimes in the same season! Doris Singleton was in at least three episodes that I can think of, as three different characters. The same for Jackie Joseph. Frank Adamo was in almost every episode. Bernard Fox made a couple of appearances. One actor was an insurance agent in one episode and a hypnotist in another. I guess we just agreed not to notice, or we noticed but we didn’t care as long as it was entertaining. Carl Reiner came from sketch TV where you use the actors who are talented and funny and continuity is not a thing. So, after all that, I guess I just argued myself out of continuity. It’s still October, though. |
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After reading your post, I just might take a break, too. We are going on a fall color trip next week. Maybe I'll do it then...I don't know. I'm finding I am not spending the time on my writing as I'd like to. So much is going on in RL, too, right now.
