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About This Author
Absolute beginner, Reader, Reviewer, ESL writer, Poet, Blogger, Novelist, Published author, Psychology degree, Dog lover. Quill finalist
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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
September 22, 2024 at 12:11am September 22, 2024 at 12:11am
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Day 2
Who by Fire, 1974 Leonard Cohen, on the album New Skin for the Old Ceremony, 1974
It's a song for Spring and Summer. This song delves into the complexities of mortality and the struggle to find meaning in life.
I think this song hurt me in the first place after a breakup with my boyfriend. I was fifteen and devastated.
I remember listening to this music while I left the curtains of my bedroom open because I hoped he came by on his bike and would see me in my room. I wrote in my diary. I sighed, and I was sad!
After a few months, we got back together again, but it never was the same after that. So, within a few months, I was the one breaking up. Under the voice of Leonard Cohen.
Lyrics:
And who by fire, who by water
Who in the sunshine, who in the night time
Who by high ordeal, who by common trial
Who in your merry merry month of May
Who by very slow decay
And who shall I say is calling?
And who in her lonely slip, who by barbiturate
Who in these realms of love, who by something blunt
And who by avalanche, who by powder
Who for his greed, who for his hunger
And who shall I say is calling?
And who by brave assent, who by accident
Who in solitude, who in this mirror
Who by his lady's command, who by his own hand
Who in mortal chains, who in power
And who shall I say is calling?
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September 21, 2024 at 4:54pm September 21, 2024 at 4:54pm
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Day 1
Today, September 21 was the birthdate of Leonard Cohen. He died in 2016, 5 months after my start at WdC. I love his lyrics as a poet, and I love his music and his voice. So, for this challenge of 10 days, I choose him.
I think I was in my teens when I discovered Cohen's music while staying in the apartment of my mother's younger brother and his young wife. I listened to his album which was called Raisor Music because of the deep sad voice and the lyrics. Critics would say it was music to kill yourself by.
Leonard Cohen, 1976 album Songs of Leonard Cohen
"Suzanne."
The text is sad, deep, profound and so beautiful. I could listen to "Suzanne" over and over again. It never got tired or dull. When I was in my teens (15-16) I was religious so it touched that part of my soul as well. Within a few years I dropped that but the love of "Suzanne" remained.
"Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river
You can hear the boats go by
You can spend the night beside her
And you know that she's half crazy
But that's why you want to be there
And she feeds you tea and oranges
That come all the way from China
And just when you mean to tell her
That you have no love to give her
Then she gets you on her wavelength
And she lets the river answer
That you've always been her lover
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you've touched her perfect body with your mind
And Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind
Now Suzanne takes your hand
And she leads you to the river
She is wearing rags and feathers
From Salvation Army counters
And the sun pours down like honey
On Our Lady of the Harbour
And she shows you where to look
Among the garbage and the flowers
There are heroes in the seaweed
There are children in the morning
They are leaning out for love
And they will lean that way forever
While Suzanne holds the mirror
And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know you can trust her
For she's touched your perfect body with her mind"
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September 2, 2024 at 9:52am September 2, 2024 at 9:52am September 2, 2024 at 7:36am September 2, 2024 at 7:36am
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Prompt 14: Write an acrostic poem about Jane Austen.
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Austen, Jane
Now starring in this poem
Emma, a great story
And Pride and Prejudice
Under the stars of romance
Singeling out strong women
To tell a compelling tale
English novelist, wote 6
Novels, Jane Austen
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September 2, 2024 at 4:32am September 2, 2024 at 4:32am
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Prompt 13: Write what you like about the novel Emma.
I have read the book Emma by Jane Austen a long time ago. Perhaps twenty-five or thirty years ago. So, I cannot remember much and don't have the book at home. So all depends on me doing research and Google. A week's deadline is also too short to deliver the book from the library. It'll have to do.
I remember liking the book because Emma is an independent young, rich woman who doesn't want to commit her life to a man and marry, at first. It is a bit of a feminist and psychological novel. She thinks she is good at matchmaking and meddling in other people's love life. At the end of the book, she falls for the man she put up a female friend with.
Something like that.
WC: 592 characters/120 words
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September 2, 2024 at 4:10am September 2, 2024 at 4:10am
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Prompt 11: Does any of Downton Abbey's male characters make for a good Darcy? Gay Thomas Barrow, Tom Branson, or Matthew Crawley?
Downton Abbey is a British historical drama television series set in the early 20th century. The series, set on the fictional Yorkshire country estate of Downton Abbey between 1912 and 1926, depicts the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their domestic servants in the post-Edwardian era, and the effects the great events of the time have on their lives and the British social hierarchy. (Wikipedia). I binge-watched the whole series and the movie.
Fitzwilliam Darcy is a very arrogant man of England's upper crust. He is lord of Pemberley, an expensive estate in the county of Derbyshire. He is fairly tall and handsome, but his demeanor is unfriendly, aloof, and unapproachable. In the book Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen describes him as a very disagreeable man, but as the book progresses he is loving and kind. Mr. Darcy struggles with pride and prejudice towards those of lower social standing, especially those who lack propriety.
That's when Tom Branson of Downton Abbey comes in. He too has issues with social standing marrying Sybil who is upper class and juggling his job as a chauffeur and journalist.
I think the only Downton Abbey character that would make a good Mr. Darcey would be Tom Branson. Thomas Barrow is too sinister and Matthew Crawley is too kind. All three of them are in their own way good looking.
When I ponder this question long enough, I also tend to look at Thomas Barrow again. So, I am conflicted. Tom or Thomas?
WC: 1325 characters/271 words |
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