Writing Prompt 5 Part 2

So I did my word soup writing prompt yesterday at work. first i wrote a little scene between Petra and Jamie. It was super easy and quick and those words seemed to fit into a bit of story that I already had planned out.

But then i read it. Its quite a bit in the future and i decided i didn't want to show it to anyone because it reveals some things that people who've only got access to the first chapter shouldn't know yet.

so i wrote a poem too!

remember the words?? mascara, bridge, broken glass, pink, lighter fluid, dish soap, lake, literature, empty pop can

A bridge of broken glass
is no bridge worth crossing
With all of my heart I refuse to suffer
the tender pink bottoms of your feet
to cross any such length
Even though it spans a river of regret
and if you went forth
you could be free

Your pain would produce a lake of tears
running dark tracks on your beautiful face
that heavy mascara that is only a persona
The literature of your history cannot
be read in the paint on your eyes
Because your story is no more than hearsay
hushed word of mouth

An empty pop can glints dully
in the leaping light of tall dancing flames
from the line of thick lighter fluid
you sprayed between us out of spite
The river water flows sluggishly below us
like deep cobalt tinted dish soap
where it waits for the fire to make quick work
to swallow us both

authorsden: http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewpoetry.asp?id=274249

The first 2 stanzas flew upon me in a flurry. Those flurrys can be dangerous if you're not prepared to grab onto them. but i was already writing, standing ready with my pen-net.

...i should make a pen-net... how cool would that be??

then i got to the last stanza and i had lighter fluid, empty pop can, and dish soap left and i didn't know what to do with it. I'm not sure if i really like the poem, but i got all the words in it so the writing prompt is a success. Now, I can go through and take out the stupid words i don't like and turn it into a real poem if i feel like it.

but not this afternoon. Lucky number Slevin is on. i have never seen it but the first 15 minutes have already sucked me in, so i'm going to spin some yarn and watch beautiful, beautiful bruce willis.

Writing Prompt 5 Part 1

remember when i said that i would do writing prompts on wednesdays, every wednesday, and i would not fail?? i laugh at myself. this is what? the third one i've missed or done late??

Elenore having succumbed to a coma of indefinite length is no reason for me to have not written my writing prompt on wednesday, seeing as i obviously still have access to the internets. the actual excuse was the fact that i cleaned my craft room and then made a windchime instead, so it's not like i was being non productive.

so i decided i would do it today at work between calls and then post it up here tomorrow afternoon and i would once again be caught up. woot.

so i was scrolling through EWP looking for something good and i saw the list of words, which may be my favorite exercise, and i knew it was the right prompt.

Word Soup.
Use the following words in a poem or short story: literature, broken glass, cigarette, mascara, lighter fluid, lake, bridge, empty pop can, dish soap, pink

and how is that collection of words right there NOT a story about dear Petra and Jamie from the rewrite. So i'm excited about this prompt.

and speaking of the rewrite, i love being a gold member and watching my stories get hits in the stats section on Authors den. Both the first chapter of the rewrite and some of my other random sci-fi things are getting good hits. Chapter two of the rewrite has just been retyped on the other computer and i will have it posted over there in a few days. I am sorry that i lost Elenore because i had most of chapter 2 revised and i have to start over, but hey if i've done it once already it just makes it easier (Says the girl who is used to her laptop shutting down randomly mid sentence).

so come back tomorrow and hopefully i'll have a writing prompt for you (which will likely show up in the rewrite at some point).

Elenore is sick!

My poor laptop Elenore has been ailing for more than a year now. I very recently replaced her second broken cord (after fixing both of the first ones numerous times until there was no more fixing left...)

The battery itself inside the computer has also had some issues over the years. For a long time now it has not charged when plugged in, so it would go directly into the 'low battery' alert as soon as you unplugged it.

it's been dying a little bit more, and now the computer no longer recognizes it as a battery. new battery time, which is both exciting and expensive.

but of course all of my writing is trapped on Elenore's hard drive. This actually makes me very happy because it gives me the perfect excuse to keep working on the 2008 rewrite!! I can't get to the prequel, but the rewrite has only been half typed and i have no problem doing it over again on the boyfriend's desktop.

Score!

Also, my craft room is clean.

Double Score!!

I need to stop writing...

because i know how all the books i read and tv shows i watch and movies i see are going to turn out.

i just have it figured out from the beginning because i know how to build a story and i see how the blocks are going to fall.

this is lame.

4 days, 17,000 words

Last week I wrote a stupid little writing prompt that I didn't really want to do.

But then I fell in love with the new character added to an old cast and four days later I have 35 pages, 6 chapters, more than 17,000 words of typed story, a rewrite of my 2008 nanowrimo that didn't have a name.

I know that i'm supposed to be working on The Prequel. I'm also supposed to be cleaning my craft room and, according to what the boyfriend was hassling me about before he left for work, doing the laundry and cleaning the kitchen.

But do I? Nope.

And today's Facebook horoscope was: Follow your mood today. And make no apologies for choosing the less ambitious path

It's not a matter of which path open to me is the most or least ambitious though, its which path has the brightest colors and the most engaging story and right now that is the love affair between Jamie and Petra. All those other characters in that chain of stories that are hooked together mean nothing to me at this moment.

So here's the first chapter, including the bit from the writing prompt with nice revisions and hopefully some brighter word colors. James has gotten into my brain. Everything is color with me these days... http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewshortstory.asp?id=46966