The Dream Snake

The Dream Snake

I was living on an old military base where the buildings were all the same color, and clumped together in little developments of the same style. I went into my dark room to look for something. I dumped a box of old things on the bed, and I saw a movement. When I looked on the floor, black snake with yellow and white bands writhed by the foot of the bed. I bent down to see what I could do and it slithered away.

Later I came back to my dark room frantically searching through my things. A snake leaped at me, mouth open, but did not bite me. It wrapped itself around my neck. I was a little afraid, but part of me said, “How cool!” I went out to see how people would react. Some I knew would be driven away from me, and some would be drawn to me not for me but because of the snake.

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Bubbles of Earth

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Throwing Wood on the Fire

Writing this novel is a lot like making a fire, which I do every morning now. At first I start with an organized plan, which sometimes lights right up and sometimes fails miserably. Then I let it burn for a while until I have to disorganize the whole thing by throwing more wood on, and reorganize. I just throw pieces in an then if they don’t land where I think they should I use the tongs to place them clumsily where they will burn best.

The whole process of writing seems similar. Right now I am just throwing the wood on, hopefully 50,000 words of wood, and then I will pick up the tongs and painstakingly rearrange the burning mess. This is called editing, but that can wait until December.

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And I Thought I Was Busy This Week.

Shift Happens Narrated

This should make you think a little about what exciting and overwhelming times we live in. I feel like such a slacker.

I got this from a new blog,  check it out. I think she asks some good questions.

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The Journey of 50,000 Words Begins With 1000.

I have made a page out of the first 1000 words of my novel. Written yesterday tonight I will do at least 1000 more. I really have no idea what I am doing or where this is going. It wasn’t hard to write this much, but I have to write at least an average of about 1700 words a day to complete the challenge so the quality might suffer but this is mostly a rough draft. Comments are welcome. I really will appreciate any feedback as long as it is constructive. It is part of the process of discovery. Just let me know what you think if you have nothing better to do and have the patience to read such rough work.

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