Vintage Christmas ornaments… I know it’s not Throwback Thursday. But since I missed Thursday, I want to post these. I was looking for vintage, and old fashioned Christmas ornaments online. Found these. We use to have these when I was a kid. Did you?
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Drafts
I enjoy learning about how other writers create. What their writing steps and techniques are.
When I am first working on a story…a book…I usually write it, well, un-colorfully….if I can use a crazy word. Let me explain. I use plain, bland words. I might write a line like, “The boat rocked back and forth on the fierce ocean.” Eh…eh…. Later, I’ll add the words that matter and recreate the sentence. “The millionaire’s yacht creaked and rocked under the weight of the menacing waves. The novice millionaire captain was petrified. His friends and family fought to hold on for dear life against the storm that mysteriously appeared.” Then, later down the road it will change yet again and add points of view, character emotions, etc.
I met one writer who does things differently than I do. She over describes things, then cuts out instead of building up.
What is your preference? Your first-draft technique?
Thanks for reading.
Yikes! It’s Black Friday! Run!
Run far and wide and hide from Black Friday crazies, lunatics and fun seekers! 😉
Check out this old movie ad. It has nothing really to do with Black Friday sales, but this is quite how I feel about that day or horrors.
Drowning Misery
Painted whiskey illustration
From moraswines.com
ex-wives ex-lives
neatly fit in
square bottles
decanted
three fingers
three rocks
at a time
charred oak
amber despair
sharp cut
vitreous lead
crystal sorrows
refract in their
fireglass tumbled
kaleidoscope sins
cold companions
that splendidly
burn off regrets
to make room
for the shame
In Love With YOU
I fall in love with you
again every day.
You are my life’s blessing
always true and by my side.
I fall in love with you
again every day
and would not have it
any other way.
Throwback Thursday
Remember Hong Kong Phooey?… They ran on Saturdays, a total of 31 shorts, from Sept. 7, 1974 – Dec. 21, 1974.
No Accounting for Death
This is free today:
A donation from every sale of the other two books in the series goes to Breast Cancer Care.
Waste
“Wasted Life”
Digital Art by gearlock
From deviantart.com
dicing time
nibbling life
busy building
false towers
on leasehold
of somebody
else’s estate
fallow shadows
of kernelstones
germinate waste
stillborn seeds
render naught
from what might
have been save
for misguided
priorities lost
to untended
potential self
sadly subsumed
in malpractice
of pride only
realized too late
one more man
none will care
to remember
Where You Need to Be
You can do great things
but only if you
are in the place
where they need
to be done.
Do not wait
for life to call
nor sit at home
wondering why
your life feels
incomplete.
You can not escape
unhappy times
but you can move
through them with
grace, knowing they
will be resolved or
at least will fade away
with time.
Always focus on the solution
not on the problem.
Cancel Morning
“Winter Home at Night”
Painting by Tom Hoy
From fineartamerica.com
what grows in the winter but the cold
pushes lengthening fingers of frost
along sidewalks and down dead-end streets
up the stairs into parlors no purpose
at hand but to freeze every clock and
with that put a stop to the end of the night
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