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 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. |
| Prompt: "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." Dorothy Parker What is your take on this? I am very rarely bored. Not because I don't have the capability, but because I spend my time doing my best not to be bored. So, I guess I agree with this quote. I find that when boredom approaches, the appropriate response is to wonder. To open a book, to do something new, to play with my nephews, to do something that means that boredom goes away and interest returns. There really is a lot in the world to wonder about. It's amazing when I think about it. How many things there is that I don't know and how many ways I can work to discover those shades of interest. Right now, I'm off at my sister's house watching my nephews play while my niece and my sister are off at some thing. She just turned 12 on Tuesday so we came down to visit. It's just amazing to think that she's growing so fast. Her brothers are 9. 6, and 2, and I can see them growing by leaps. The two year old can already recognize some words--I don't know whether it's because he's memorized the book or because he can actually recognize the letters, but he sits and reads with us. Children are so full of curiosity--in fact, it's only when they leave it be that they learn to be bored. |
| Prompt: Life is what happens when you have dreams and are busy making plans. What do you think this means? I think it means that we don't have a choice. It's all very well to have dreams and make plans, but life is going on despite that, and if we don't take care, we're going to lose out on those dreams because we're not doing. I think that's especially important to remember as a writer. I find it really easy to settle back and just watch life pass me by because I enjoy watching people and reading situations and stories. But it's also important to do, instead of watch. At least, that the lesson that I'm settling on right now. |
| “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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