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thoughts, words, deeds

by Rhyssa

Rated: NPL · Book · Personal · #2150723

a journal

This book is intended as a place to blog about my life and things I'm interested in and answers to prompts from various blog prompt sites here on WDC, including "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"

and "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"

I'm not sure yet what it'll turn into, but I'm going to have fun figuring it out.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Joy

Nov 26, 2019 at 10:19am
In response to "good news"

Excellent entry, Rhyssa.

I agree that if there is love, respect should be in it also. How can it be separate?
I hope your niece recovers very soon. She is lucky because she has such a great family, a caring aunt, and wonderful siblings. Have a happy Thanksgiving!

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Princess Megan Rose

Nov 14, 2019 at 9:45am
In response to "hope "

This is clarity. Taking care of babies and very heart touching. Bless you. There is hope.

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Rhyssa

Oct 5, 2019 at 10:52pm
In response to "my smiles"

We've finally dropped out of summer temperatures. Maybe.

Joy

Oct 5, 2019 at 10:42pm
In response to "my smiles"

So beautiful and heartening to read of your love of your family members!
I like warm, too; not hot, not cold. Unfortunately, where I am we are rarely warm or lukewarm. Mostly hot with a few days of somewhat cold in the dead of winter.

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Joy

Oct 1, 2019 at 10:17pm
In response to "top of the wish list"

Something like a patch or an insert under the skin might do it. I hope they do invent something that would make lives much easier.

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Joy

Aug 26, 2019 at 10:57pm
In response to "flood waters"

That is terrible. Your poor family! The city governments need to take better action with their drainage systems. That is something that concerns me a lot. In 2018, in Paris when the Seine rose up, due to rain, all the basements around it were flooded, which made the basement rats go up the buildings. Most people were made to evacuate, but when the floods receded, they came back to unbelievable looting and broken windows and doors. The outcomes of floods are horrible.

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Joy

Aug 13, 2019 at 11:29pm
In response to "everyone's the hero of his own story"

Exactly, and I agree. Good vs good produces great literature.

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Joy

Jul 14, 2019 at 1:29pm
In response to "complication"

First, this is not up to me, but since your entry seems to ask for opinions, I'd say why worry about something you have no say over? I know this is difficult under the circumstances, but the decision is for your sister and her husband to make. Whatever they decide, they'll have to handle the results of their decision. You can only help when the result is in the open.

A second possibility is that the ultrasound may not be showing exactly what is there. I know a couple who thought they were getting one kid and ended up with twins. Then, what the ultrasounds, x-rays, etc. show depends on the doctor who interprets what he sees. I hope it is nothing but the doctor's wrong interpretation, but he/she might be right, too.

Also, sometimes, nature takes care of itself. So, please don't worry before anything happens. You'll only cloud your own life.

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Joy

Jul 2, 2019 at 9:14am
In response to "writing the edges"

Yes, it is always helpful to stretch out. You are right about being too close to something. Some things in my life I am still not able to write about like the Vietnam War or 9/11, let alone read a book referring to them. In fact, if I see a book hinting at such a situation in it, I'll skip reading it.

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Joy

Jun 12, 2019 at 8:56pm
In response to "common wisdom"

I am with you on this. Aristotle probably wanted his ideas or debates understood easily for the people of his day. Also, sometimes, wise thoughts cannot be expressed in simple words, even if we can show those ideas in character action. Still, I believe in using an easily understandable language, but for that end, I am not going to give up a good piece of prose expressed through better vocabulary.

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January 14, 2019 at 11:34pm

#949669

conflict and story

“Anytime you get two people in a room, who disagree about anything, the time the day, there is a scene to be written. That’s what I look for.”
Aaron Sorkin
Does a situation like what Aaron Sorkin describes upset you or do you take it as a chance to write it in a scene or a story? For that matter, can you think of similar negative situations you have used or plan to use in your writing?

I agree with this one—it’s not upsetting, it’s a truth. In order to have a scene, what you need is two people (at least) in a room, having a disagreement about anything. Scenes are made out of conflict—not necessarily a knock down, yelling argument, but differences in opinion about life, parenting, what to have for breakfast, who left the toilet seat down, politics, religion . . . as long as there are two people who have a difference of opinion, there is the potential for a scene, and scenes added upon each other make story.

Now, I personally don’t like conflict or confrontation in my own life. But when it comes to writing, I want my characters to live in more interesting ways than I do. They have strong opinions. For example, in a story I wrote for my thesis, I brought two characters into a room together—a woman and her biological son who had been given up at birth and raised as her nephew. He was dying of cancer. He didn’t want his children to know because he wanted to die without causing them bad memories. She thought he was cheating them out of the chance to say goodbye.

So, difference of opinion. Tons of back story. And emotional relevance to turn into story.

In another story, I had a young girl who lived with her parents and an unrelated male on a rock in the middle of the ocean because her father and the man kept a lighthouse. During the story, the mother gave birth, with her young daughter as the primary midwife while the father stayed in the tower because it was his shift and he was afraid to come down and help. Disagreements. Conflict. Story.

I don’t think of it as negative situations. I think of it as the friction that makes story worth reading.

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