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All fingers and thumbs

A blog on my personal writing process. Just random thoughts, notes, and other stuff. Don’t know yet what that will be like. Am exploring possibilities and pulse towards an unknown future. Let’s find out! Here are challenges and activities stored.

"Invalid Item"

2017
"The Soundtrack of Your Life"

2020
"Resurrection Jukebox"

2020
"NaNoWriMo Write-A-Thon"

2020/21
"The Fiction Writer's Toolbox"

2020
"October Novel Prep Challenge"

2021(The Shanhaijing Prophecy)
Neil Gaiman's Masterclass 2019

"a very Wodehouse challenge"

2024
Template Worldbuilding

2024
"Barrel of Monkeys"

[E] 2024

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Waltz en France

about 5 hours ago
In response to "I'm Your Man"

There's a collection of Cohen covers out there called I'm Your Fan.

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D Spirit writer 🎶😺

a day ago
In response to "Suzanne"

Always loved this song and his amazing way of writing about life, love and beyond.

I heard him in the early '70s in Brooklyn the first time.

Going to listen to this later 😃❤️.
What a beautiful share for today.
Nothing like lighting up souls!

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Waltz en France

a day ago
In response to "Suzanne"

I knew this one as a poem before I heard the song, and even without the music, I always thought it was amazing. Religious or not.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

a day ago
In response to "Suzanne"

I remember this song from the late 60s. loved it. My first crush when I was 10 was Suzanne Elaine...

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Oct 27, 2021 at 4:21pm
In response to "Oct 29 Plot revision"

How long have you lived in Beijing and Los Angeles? Are there better choices? There are China Towns everywhere. I think of two I've visited: Toronto and Lima. Ancient books are portable; ancient knowledge even more so.

Regardless, can you make the setting detailed enough so that it feels authentic?

Just thoughts.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Oct 21, 2021 at 5:49pm
In response to "Oct 21 Outline revision"

Coming along nicely.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Oct 19, 2021 at 1:03pm
In response to "Oct 19 Plot complications"

Will China come to Wolf? Is the riddle worth solving? Is LA worth saving? Are the monsters the true heroes?

Just being contrary but turning things on their heads can be helpful.

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Kåre Enga in Montana

Oct 17, 2021 at 1:34pm
In response to "Oct 18 Cultural setting"

The idea that old myths can be relived in modern times is so ... Chinese! Or Korean. Gumiho = nine-tailed fox. This kdrama is highly rated (8.4):

"My roommate is a fairy fox" isn't as well done, but... it made me watch BL genre drama:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_LWcgh44F0

You'll find the opening similar to what you describe in that history and reality meet. It's worth watching if you have the time. The music is a bit of an earworm, just so you know.

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Schnujo's in Alabama

Oct 11, 2021 at 7:03pm
In response to "Who is Wolf Meyer, main character?"

That is a great pic! But I have a question about his weakness. Is he too "thrusting" or too "trusting"? I mean, there's a little bit of a difference.

Elycia Lee ☮

Oct 4, 2021 at 6:49am
In response to "Who is Wolf Meyer, main character?"

Wow! That picture!

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September 23, 2024 at 7:19am

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I'm Your Man

"Barrel of Monkeys"

[E]

Day 3

1988 I'm Your Man, Leonard Cohen
on I'm you're man, 1988

The lyrics remind me of Joep, a children's actor and writing teacher. (1990-ish). I met Joep in a theater writing class and fell for him. We had a thing for almost a year in which he even proposed to marry him. My first and only time somebody asked. I said No.

He was very funny, witty and fun to be with. And the intimacy was great. But suddenly there was nothing left, it died between us, dried up. So, I broke up with him. He was 15 years older.

Lyrics:

If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you
If you want a partner
Take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
I'm your man

If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
I'll examine every inch of you
If you want a driver
Climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
I'm your man

Ah, the moon's too bright
The chain's too tight
The beast won't go to sleep
I've been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep
Ah but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or I'd crawl to you baby
And I'd fall at your feet
And I'd howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And I'd claw at your heart
And I'd tear at your sheet
I'd say please (Please)
I'm your man

And if you've got to sleep
A moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if you want to work the street alone
I'll disappear for you
If you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
Across the sand
I'm your man

If you want a lover
I'll do anything that you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you

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