Creative Writing

The Eighth Deadly Sin or Who Makes The Rules Around Here Anyway?

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Post A Day Prompt: Eighth Deadly Sin

It was something to think about: If you could create the Eighth Deadly Sin what would it be?

I felt like a kid in a candy store.

People do so many idiotic things that you could nail them for. I mean where to start?

Okay. Deadly Sin should do what it says. If you commit this sin the consequences are going to be deadly. Plus you’re for sure going to Hell.

So if I could pick a new one I’d stay with the theme. It’d have to be something people do at least one of every single day : wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony.

Ok. Here it is.

Laughter.

If you laugh you go to Hell. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200.00

 No more laughing when your trying to belittle someone and that laugh, that smile is just one more knife for you to stick in their eye and twist. No more laughing at jokes or movies or happy memories.

And if you do. Boom. You’re in a cuddle puddle with demons. And not the cute ones like they have on the TV show Supernatural.

And if you think so I’d agree: Yes indeed that is twisted and mean.

But isn’t that what the Deadlies are? Don’t we all get angry?  Love to eat too much ( Hello Christmas and Thanksgiving ) Aren’t there days when you just don’t want to wear anything but yesterday’s t-shirt and your favorite ripped up jeans or sweatpants? And on those days when you’re not fitting into your favorite outfit  don’t tell me you wouldn’t  sell a kidney to look like someone on tv.

It’s okay. We’ve all been there.

Seriously. Who decided to make being human not just a sin, but a deadly one?

But this is my blog and my post and my response to the prompt and I have made Laughter The Eighth Deadly Sin.

You just laughed at that didn’t you?

Uh Oh. Uh Oh For You To The Max.

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Oh.Right.

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some-billboards-just-dont-have-manners                         My last post was in April? Really APRIL?

I’ve got this long list of reasons for why I haven’t been writing- they could fill a book ( Anita Marie says  as she rolls her eyes so far back into her head she can see her brain ).

I was so stuck and I went in search of why I was stuck and not writing.

When I think back on it, I was looking for excuses.

And I found one- a good one.

I started reading these articles and posts about people losing touch with their Muse and THAT was the reason they can’t write.

The thing of it is, when I used to visualize my Muse- that creature was my bitch and I didn’t ask it for anything- it was chop, chop we’ve got writing to do and if you can’t help me I’ll go find another Muse because that’s the way of the world baby.

You don’t come up to snuff and your butt is going curbside.

But NO. I started to agree with those articles and went in search of my Muse. That little spark or voice that would give me that push and before you know it, I’d be writing away like a maniac.

If I could just get in touch with my Muse.

Well. Guess what. I did. I reached out and touched my Muse.

Actually, I gave my Muse a whack upside the head  and here I am happily writing away.

Now I don’t know if that’s the way one is supposed to connect with one’s Muse, creative nature- or whatever you call it. All I’m hoping is that I get it together and post again tomorrow.

If not, I’m going to Ebay my little creative voice and find another.

Or maybe I’ll just nail it to the wall – and that sounds like fun too. Almost as much fun as writing.

Somedays those win-wins just rain down on you when you least expect it.

 

Do You Know What Time It Is?

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I don’t want books to go away-even if they are replaced by little computers you can carry around with no effort and will fit anywhere.

My fear is if books, real books, go away so will the writers.

Point: Have you noticed if a movie isn’t a retread it’s based on a computer game and ‘reality shows’ are based on another reality show  that came out a month ago?

And in some cases if you see a movie trailer you’ve seen the movie?

Before e-mail became all the rage I had Pen Pals and I wrote letters. Some of those letters took days to write in some cases. Now I send comments on facebook and most of my e-mails are less than a hundred words because I’ve been told- who has the time to read a letter?

Writers are not being replaced, we are becoming obsolete.

I figure that one day you’ll just jam something into your ear and a voice at the other end will tell you what to see and  think and …oh wait…

The year 2000 as it was imagined back in 1910 by Villemard

For Five Fears

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From:

Visual Journal Prompts

(Wednesday, January 29, 2003)

Take a newspaper or magazine page and randomly cut thirty words. Cut out big words or little words. Once you have the words use them like magnetic poetry and write the last thing you say to the world before dying. You can make any adjustments by cutting off letters and arranging them in any way you like.

 

stuff  DECISION

 So StAy music JOB  SENSE eNergy WaNt

END stone FOUR Playing tall SHOW five EASY  miss Dead

DARKER explore  waters CREEPY fear BUGGED slack OPEN

Great guitar GOODBYE

 

I’ll fess up, I tweaked this a little but not a lot. I thought this was more about 

having fun then being perfect.

All I can say is I hope that I hope my last words aren’t this ditzy sounding.

On the other hand….

Goodbye Darker Waters

slack end

for  five

fears. 

Sense creepy  energy

so explore stay.

Miss playing dead

music

Tall  job open

decision bugs me.

::: the article I used was Tall and Scottish-an interview with David Tennant:::

Could Be Fun

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Found Writing Prompts

that could be fun-

Give them a try and if you have some to share post the links in the comment section

a.m

from

 : Language Is A Virus:

Sprung Diary: Write a diary tracking and intercutting multiple levels of thoughts, experiences, anticipations, expectations, from minute to major. (Cf.. Hannah Weiner‘s Clairvoyant Journal.)

Fun- and I do mean Fun Prompts-

from

bogglesworld.com

Settlement On Mars

The Padlocked Chest

Beware of Humans

more prompts from bogglesworld

HERE

Visit

Writing Prompts: Daily Writing & Journal Prompts
choice-inspired writing prompts for daily writing in journals or notebooks

They have a Prompt Generator that has 548 prompts also they add to it periodically

HERE

No Post Day (s)

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Hi.

Sorry I’m not writing here at the moment.

I’m working on my Halloween Stories and other fun and spooky stuff on a daily basis over at my Owl Creek Blog.

I haven’t done that for a couple of years.

It feels great to be writing my Weird Tales again.

See you in November.

a.m.

Festival Of Trees

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Very Cool Invitation To You From My Friend

Jade:

Prehistoric Gardens, Copyright © 2009 Jade Leone Blackwater

Attention writers, bloggers, and artists of all media: if you’re looking for a prompt or a bit of inspiration this month, consider looking for what’s hidden (or lurking) among the trees.

This September Arboreality will host The Festival of the Trees issue 39 on the theme of Secrets, and you’re all invited to join me, Jade Blackwater, and bring your friends too!

The Festival of the Trees is a monthly blog carnival featuring trees and forests.  For the September Festival, our theme is Secrets:

“Forests, farms, gardens, urban trees, and ancient-rock-clinging-wind-whipped Bristlecone pine stands can be an escape, a place to hide, a space to rest, a home for buried treasure. This month, I invite you to reveal a small glimpse of a secret among the trees. Consider the quiet spots you go to sit, the trees which have stood in silent observation of the events of your life, the aromatic memory of the garden from a place you have visited. With word, image, sound, or otherwise inspired creation, give us a peek at what you see, or what you can imagine.”

Grab your free-wheeling creative license (and maybe a big, heavy club) and reveal what’s hidden in the dark, mutable forest.

Then post your creations online at your blog, photo album, or other web-based resource, and send me the link:

trees[at]brainripples[dot]com

 

Deadline for submissions is August 28, 2009.

 

Questions, comments, suggestions? Drop Jade an

email at

trees[at]brainripples[dot]com

 

(Don’t forget to drop breadcrumbs along the trail as you go!

…..wouldn’t want to get lost out there.)

Prehistoric Gardens, Copyright © 2009 Jade Leone Blackwater

 

 

[Photos taken October 2008 at the Prehistoric Gardens]

 

Boys Are The Source Of Cooties

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PHOTO A.M MOSCOSO
PHOTO A.M MOSCOSO

 

I wrote a story where the female character totally rips into the male character on a regular basis.

I thought it was funny.

I wrote this character based on my cat’s personalities.

So by nature she was self centered, in love with herself and had a serious  personality disorder.

So what happens?

Some of my female readers wanted me to kill the male character off.

They thought the male character made the female character act like a bad person.

Actually she was bad because she was based on one of my cats who would chew the legs off of rodents and then watch them roll away to save their lives.

Seriously.

They wanted him dead.

If this character had been a real person I’d have driven him down to the court house and made him file for a restraining order. I’d have put him into one of those relocation programs. If he were real and disappeared tomorrow I’d be sitting with a Detective in an interview room telling him all about these women who wanted me to kill this poor guy off

I told my friend about this and she said:

” Everyone knows boys are the source of Cooties.”

I suppose that explanation is as good as any other.

For Your Consideration….

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This is a question

for Writers and Readers alike.

 

This is a picture of Russell T. Davies- he has written stories for Doctor Who

and

also pictured is David Tennant- he of course has played Doctor Who.

So I as I looked at this picture the writer in me said:

You know who the real Doctor Who is

in this picture don’t you?

I do.

Do you?

Photo: Culture Magazine Photo Shoot

Your Call Is Holding On Line…

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Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC
Photo Credit: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC

For the past couple of days I’ve been receiving a lot of hits from a site called

Alpha Inventions.

I followed the traffic back to the referral  because I’d never heard of Alpha Inventions and generally when I notice a surge from one specific link I do get curious and always go back and check it out.

What I found out is that A.I. is an experiment in connecting webmasters ( bloggers ) together’faster’. As opposed to being a ‘chatty’ site like Facebook or Myspace Alpha Inventions deals strictly with information .

Here’s brief description about how it works from the Alpha Inventions Blog:

If you update or publish your blog at the same time my visitors are browsing blogs in my site then my visitors will get a chance to see your blog in real-time. BAM! (the entire blog is in their face instantly) It’s not even annoying to watch.  Is it alpha addicts??

I also provide a link to your blog in case they want it to open your blog in a new window, or bookmark your blog . The links provides your title, and description to help my visitors get a better understanding on what your blog is about, and get more interested. Alphainventions.com is useful for wordpress.com , typepad.com, spaces.live.com, and blogger.com I love it, and want to grow it like a tree. Yahh!

To get more traffic from alphainventions.com just keep your blog updated . It’s so simple.

More..

I would say that if I had to describe A.I. in simple terms it’s a bit like wandering through a bookstore or cruising through the footnotes in books ( which is something I like to do with pen and notebook in hand) for some new ideas to feed the old Grey Matter.

So  give Alpha Inventions a visit if you’re interested in the new ways that people are finding to stay connected through the Internet and information sharing.  And if  you are just a writer like me you’ll be intrigued by the desire that people have in a Cyber Universe to find a life line as it were to stay connected to each other.

It’s so real world.

a.m.