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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

Sep 24, 2024 at 3:53am
In response to "Take This Waltz"

One of my favorites, and not just for the obvious reason.

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Waltz en France

Sep 23, 2024 at 10:10am
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 🎶😺

Sep 22, 2024 at 12:09pm
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

Sep 21, 2024 at 6:22pm
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

Sep 21, 2024 at 6:00pm
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.

September 29, 2024 at 4:27am

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First We Take Manhatten

"Barrel of Monkeys"

[E]

Day 9

Leonard Cohen in First We Take Manhatten Live, 2017 also featured in the album:Famous Blue Raincoat, 1987.

Cohen explained himself in a backstage interview at 1988: "I think it means exactly what it says. It is a terrorist song. I think it's a response to terrorism. There's something about terrorism that I've always admired. He was charmed by extreme right rhetoric when he wrote the song.

I didn't know this. I've always been charmed by the extreme left rhetoric of the freedom fighters of earlier times, who sometimes turned out to be wrong indeed. Che Chevara, The IRA, etc. I was a lefty in my younger years. Now also still a tendency to the left.

Lyrics
They sentenced me to 20 years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens (Guided, guided)
I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin (I am guided by)
I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons (Ooh, ooh)
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you I was one of those
Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win
You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline
How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I don't like your fashion business, mister
And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin
I don't like what happened to my sister
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin
I'd really like to live beside you, baby
I love your body and your spirit and your clothes
But you see that line there moving through the station?
I told you, I told you, told you I was one of those
And I thank you for those items that you sent me, ha ha ha ha
The monkey and the plywood violin
I practiced every night, now I'm ready
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I am guided
Ah, remember me, I used to live for music (Baby)
Remember me, I brought your groceries in (Ooh, baby, yeah)
Well, it's Father's Day, and everybody's wounded
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

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