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| This thunderstorm is making it so I can't take my normal walk, but on the upside I already got the revision made, so maybe the thunderstorm is actually making me productive. Now, to get my haunted space station people to their next realization... |
Okay okay okay-- I got home from the waiting room and managed to write down what I wanted to remember, which honestly comes down to not that many words, which are "DAILY POEMS" and also "ESSAYS". This from Bradbury telling you a thing about how to keep your Muse going. He recommends poetry to keep your metaphor game sharp, and essays because 1) they're neat and 2) they are sensory description enhancers.
I already take side trips into reading essays all the time, although I haven't for a while; but I think the habit of reading a poem per day while the coffee brews might be just what the doctor ordered In These Times. What do you all think? |
| Appointment done. That's the last of the Large Appointments until the 27th. I'm going to eat macaroni and cheese now. |
Okay, housework done; phone calls and admin done (still need to fill in some forms--endless forms--eternal forms); school taught. I got one review in today. I wrote three letters on actual paper For The Greater Good. I told a kid that he can buy tomato plants and grow them in pots on the patio. I am carefully not thinking about Yet Another Appointment that is happening tomorrow (not me, this time, a kid, not the usual kid with appointments either, another kid).
Did I write fiction? No. I *thought* about it, while mopping the floor, but I did not write it. Maybe tomorrow? We will keep hoping. |
| I am sitting with the kid at the orthodontist and, unwarily, reading Bradbury's Zen In the Art of Writing. Unwary because I don't have my notebook and I need to take notes. Gosh, it's unfair. |
| Appointment done. Blah! Now they can't bother me for another whole year. Bodies are too much work, man. Let's all run away and be brains in a jar. |
We are late, but we are here! This week over in the forum we are talking about "Week 9, Recovering A Sense of Compassion, Good Parts Version"  , in which Julia opines that "laziness" is really fear, and I opine that "laziness" is really like six things that people tend to smush together when they're feeling annoyed with each other. (Don't get annoyed with each other in creative pursuits. Just keep your eyes on your own paper.)
Swing by the forum if you like and chat about it, or argue with me, or chat about something else entirely. (Forum: "Do The Artist's Way With Raven" )
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Good morning! Did you do your morning pages? The government stole an hour from my morning and stuck it uselessly in the evening! Blah!
(I am the world's crankiest DST person. But I did do my pages today. Discussion of this week's book chapter coming after church. |
Good morning! Did you do your morning pages? Mine were, as they say, so full of a number of things.
I saw someone the other day advising that you do not, if you are in the northern hemisphere, make any big decisions until the equinox--for instance filing for divorce--because, as she put it it "if he's really a dirtbag, he'll still be a dirtbag in April, but if it's just WINTER, then you should probably wait". I think, even as the weather in my neck of the woods is lovely, that this is excellent advice. (Even the ancient Greeks looked around at the world in the sludgy part of winter and concluded that nature herself had gotten so ticked off she just died for a while, to punish us all.)
Today my goals are 1) orthodontist with the kid (again! again! at least the dang teeth stuff should slow down after this) 2) housework that has been getting pushed aside because of Large Appointments and 3) finish this #$@!ing @#$! of a chapter eight on Haunted Space Station.
What 3) really means, I fear, is that I've hit the point of this book where I can no longer coast on the KABLAMO! momentum of my opening act and vibes outline and I need to actually sit down and sketch out more detail about where the plot is going. But in the meantime I'm going to clean bathrooms and figure out exactly all the body mods my character has in this not-really-cyberpunk future I am conjuring, and also come to grips with the pacing this book seems to want, which is less Alien and more Aliens, if you know what I mean. |
| Okay, 1160 words of Haunted Space Station, which isn't a whole chapter, but which is proof that the story is talking to me again. I'm going to bed, ya'll. Catch you tomorrow. |
Good morning! Did you do your morning pages?
Stormy day expected here, but if it's not too windy that means it'll be perfect for sitting on my covered porch and breathing the good, non pollen air. Maybe writing? I have a feeling D&D day will eat up that time, however.
(Beginning Curse of Strahd with a bunch who have never played it, for those who know and are curious.) |
Good morning! (Late this morning, I know.) Did you do your morning pages?
I am having a slower day today, finally. It's possible I might finish chapter 8, if I don't allow myself to get distracted and/or the creek don't rise. I may also go back and fiddle with chapter 2 of The Manuscript I Need To Send Off. (No, really, just a tiny bit, like maybe two sentences. It's fine, leave me alone.)
What are you all working on today? |
| I lied, I have more Canadians for you. In fact, I think Marianas Trench might be the most technically complicated band to come out of Canada since Rush, even though they're a much different style/genre than Rush. They pretty much always make concept albums, for one thing, which is a feat in a music world designed for streamable singles. Their most recent album, Haven, has the added attraction for writers of being a concept album based around The Hero With A Thousand Faces. Each track on the album lines up with a step of the hero's journey. Their sound--particularly the pop sound of the lead tenor--isn't for everyone, but I confess I love their stuff. Here is the first song on Haven, which lines up with "The Call to Adventure":
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| Since I've been blathering music on other peoples' feeds, I thought I'd do a bit of DJing on my own time. Here is my favorite version of Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight, in case you didn't know this big geek covered the Beatles:
My other favorite Phil Collins fact is one I discovered when we went to the Alamo, which is that he evidently LOVES the story of the Alamo and had collected a bunch of artifacts (like Davy Crockett's pocket knife or whatever), and then realized his kids didn't want them and donated them back to the people of Texas. In return, it is Phil Collins' Cockney voice that is narrating the battle of the Alamo in the diorama room at the museum (which is surprising when you walk in and catch the eye of the weary docents). |
Good morning to everyone except the screaming birds in my yard! Did you do your morning pages?
I did, they were all me grumping about appointments. I don't know if you know this, friends, but appointments are the devil and I don't like them. (Well, appointments and (Hidden for mental health purposes)▶︎My morning pages are also full of stuff about geopolitical events, but I try to keep the geopolitics off WdC because it's one of the few places on the internet where you can go and NOT talk about geopolitical events, you know? But for the record, geopolitics are ALSO the devil. .)
But we reclaim the time. Appointments can't take up my whole day, other stuff is out of my control, so I turn to what I *can* control today. Walk, words, taking care of the people around me. What are you going to do today? |
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- thank you!!! I just went and found it, from back in the days when magazines like Road & Track bought fiction. I... think Peart's poetry works better than the source material, but what a time capsule. 
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