Ever and always.
After what has been a complete loss of a day to the software which powers this blog, you are in for tomorrow evening’s post tonight. It is Mantra’s outcry to the thousands of words I was writing in the books. She was quite impish about the fact so stinking little of it rhymed, was lyric, could be classified as free verse or any other incarnation of poetry.
This is not, I repeat NOT, about writer’s block or the general malaise which strikes writers. It is something different entirely. Yet, it is also not a brand of hatemail for the forum which is preventing so many from viewing and commenting on blogs. (Today, that included M3. Ugh.) No, it is a totally different place, yet, I have a feeling if you have not been there, you have seen someone go there. Let’s go for a trip.
CAPsized
Swimming in an alphabet ocean.
Buoyed by punctuation.
Tossed off course by formatting,
But watching the upload lighthouse.
Words crash onto the sandy page,
And semicolon crabs crawl out.
Asterisk starfish and comma shells
Are treasures the tide can’t delete.
Question mark squid spills ink
The blue sea sponge won’t pencil.
A shark fin line breaks a school
Of HTML jellyfish, varied in size…
From tiny six to the header one.
Just six more page number buoys
Before stowing the manuscript and
Hoisting the cover art sail.
Barracuda agent gives an inbox call.
He’s hauling in tuna with a trawl,
Casting his holey net on the Web
And offering plankton for each copy sold.
Book review winds gust and die down.
Kindles and Nooks signalling SOS
‘Til the SS Ebook moors in the harbor
And the author makes the first sale.
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Have you ever been information overloaded and caught in the mechanics of what you write? It is the writing or the platform which makes you turn into the great white of the genre?
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Cat Forsley
/ June 27, 2012IMPISH FOR SURE …….!!!!!!!!!!!
Love the play time in the words ……..
Big hugs always xoxoxoxoxo
Cat
You were missed Yesterday —— a ton xo
But i told you that already xxoxoxoxo
and don’t mind saying it again
love xo
Cat
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Red
/ June 28, 2012I love when Mantra is her impish self. When I read this one after I was done, I nearly fell off the couch laughing. This one was just fun to write.
And I am glad I was missed. My SM people were all asking me where I was as well…Nice to know it is noticed when I disappear 😉
Much love Mon Chat doux.
Red.
xxx
Carl D'Agostino
/ June 27, 2012You must get EATS, SHOOTS & LEAVES by Lynn Truss. Very very funny history punctuation. You can understand the title in various ways based on punctuation variations.
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Red
/ June 28, 2012I will definitely try to find it. I love etymology and the history of our language…with its mutt heritage.
Glad to see you today, Carl. I hope you have not been having too many errors…and that today’s fix helps your site as well.
Red.
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prenin
/ June 27, 2012Since I’m writing only the third book of my lifetime all I can say is that once I have an idea I keep going until it is complete! 🙂
Trouble is that, without an idea I have to just keep hammering the keys until my inner muse does its thing and makes sense.
Right now I’m caught at a crossroads and I’m not sure where to take the next few chapters.
Maybe given time… 🙂
Love and hugs!
Prenin.
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Red
/ June 28, 2012I have recently been suggesting mind mapping to quite a few people to keep track of where their thoughts and stories could/should go. It is a great way to help you make decisions about your stories and characters. I routinely mindmap the way my characters would do things, as they are so often polar opposite to the way my mind works!
{HUGZ}
Red.
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prenin
/ June 28, 2012Hi hun! 🙂
This may sound a little odd, but I use mental role play to develop the characters and how they would behave in a given way given the circumstances they find themselves in.
Usually fun as daydreams, I can have a dozen scenarios played out as I look for the best one.
The latest character to get the treatment is Josh the builder who will be restoring the devastated Reed house and building a whole new mansion on the ruins of the old one.
I used him to build the new farm houses for the tenant farmers and now I need to develop him a bit further.
I am also learning what it takes to build a house – from architects blueprint to full grown house – and I’m glad John has friends in high places so he can get planning permission! 🙂
Here in the UK the system is not easy to get through and a Chinese businessman built an entirely different house to the one he got permission for and can’t move in.
In fact he may have to have the house demolished, but then he did try to screw the system… 🙂
Love and hugs!
Prenin.
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Red
/ June 28, 2012Not odd in the slightest! I have to know my characters to be able to decide how they will react to certain situations in which I place them. When I begin a story, I am always a bit taken aback by where the characters end up. In the initial planning, I have an idea what they will do, but as they develop, I keep them true to their own personalities…which often fail to fit into the roles I initially cast them. When I go live with the story from Story Time, you will be very surprised at the end…for that matter, even the middle. 😉
Keep after it. And if the Chinaman has to demolish his house, I say go for it. We have some of those restrictions in certain areas of the country, so I am familiar with the concept. Then again, I have been in on the building of quite a few houses in my time 😉
{HUGZ} Red.
Lorre
/ June 27, 2012OMG! You have a back room. Why haven’t I been invited? Are you sore with me because I’ve become a total slacker? Let me have a back room pass, please!
I always feel information overload and just plain overwhelmed.
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Red
/ June 28, 2012Backstage pass issued. I rarely get to the overwhelmed stage. It helps I take frequent breaks from the insanity.
Binky
/ June 27, 2012Is there any state other than information overload these days?
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Bearman
/ June 28, 2012denial?
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Red
/ June 28, 2012I think it has enough residents it is now a country of its own.
Red
/ June 28, 2012Yes. It is called sleep.
Binky
/ June 28, 2012Hey, my comment did go through after all. After posting it, I got the 500 error and then couldn’t seem to get back in to your site.
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Red
/ June 28, 2012LOL! I just responded to you on the other thread it went through! The 500 error was only preventing you from seeing the reloaded page…
Mike W
/ June 28, 2012I am convinced your login scripts knew me in another life and believe I am the anti-christ.
I have now forgotten what I was going to write (yeah the memory started going with the third glass of Cabernet) so now that I am not logged in, but have arrived back on this page, I will go read again…
…Um yeah I think I’ll go get another glass of Cabernet first…
I like the barracuda agent image. Seems right apt along with question mark squid ink. Did you know Cabernet is a proper noun? I should have, but apparently I have too much or just plain forgot and left off the cap.
One of those nights Red, sorry for rambling.
MJ
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Red
/ June 28, 2012Cabernet is proper because it is named after the region in France 😉 Ramble away. I am hoping this last fix will have the login working right for the first time in months. You will get a slow first load, but it should pop after that!
Can you not just see a barracuda with a big cigar on the telephone? That was the image I got!!
MJ Logan
/ June 28, 2012Woke up to an empty bottle Cabernet on the table. Not good. Neither was my head. But last night, I deserved the indulgence. Even had some dark chocolate to go with it.
That is exactly the image I got sans telephone but with a stack of manuscripts and dollar sign eyeballs.
MJ
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Red
/ June 28, 2012They were both good for your heart. I am sticking with that story.
Valentine Logar
/ June 28, 2012Stomping feet down a lane of definitions
Finding ‘out of memory’ at the end
Fingers poised with scathing wit
Brain fired and fried with excessive system clutter
That will be my only ever contribution ….. you know I adore you.
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Red
/ June 28, 2012I love it! It is so cool to see poetic responses in return!! I so feel you on that one as well!
BuddhaKat
/ June 28, 2012The school of me feels your frustration,
but knows that by artful dodging and diving,
those whirling dervish fish
will all swim into the open mouth
of that lovely whale, Mr Moby!!!
🙂
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Red
/ June 28, 2012ROFL! I love this! I am so glad this one spoke poetically to everyone. *grins* Great to see you today.
BuddhaKat
/ June 28, 2012PS… Red – I have even been having delays when just trying to get to read one of your posts – seems it’s been a week or so, since I noticed it so… takes a lot more than that, to keep me away…
best to you and your cyber home world…
🙂
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Gingerfightback
/ June 28, 2012Loved the question mark line!
Red
/ June 28, 2012I think the squid was my favorite character in this one.