Day: October 23, 2017

Black Cat Blue Sea Award

Elizabeth Drake (which is a cool name) nominated me for the Black Cat Blue Sea Award, along with seven others.  Thanks, Elizabeth !

What is the Black Cat Blue Sea Award?
This award is for bloggers who strive to write for everybody, and no matter how many viewers they get, make an impact on a reader. This award is an expression of gratitude to the nominee. It should be awarded to anybody that you choose deserves it, and it doesn’t mean that they must have hundreds of followers and likes.

Rules
Anybody nominated can nominate up to eight other bloggers
The nominee answers three questions posed by the nominator
The questions you ask while nominating can be any three questions
If any of the questions asked are offensive or the nominee simply does not want to answer, the nominee does not have to answer them to earn the award

My Questions
1.If you could use only three adjective to describe yourself, which ones would you choose? Imaginative, lazy, and hungry. Hungry isn’t limited to food, but to learning and experiencing more.
2. What inspires you to write? Two multi-faceted things: existence, and the effort to define and understand what, why, and how things happen to people and the universe; and the great writers that have blazed the way with their stories.
3. What is your greatest joy in life? Tough question, because my wife and my writing are my greatest joys in equal measure.

All the bloggers I follow would deserve a nomination! Yet, having to choose up to 8 names,  my nominees are:

Elan Mudrow

The Story Reading Ape

Marc and everyone at Katzenworld

Little Fears

Cecilia Kennedy over at Fixin’ Leaks and Leeks

Frank Solanki

DiscoveringSooz

I’ll stay with the three questions E. Drake posed:

1.If you could use only three adjective to describe yourself, which ones would you choose?
2. What inspires you to write?
3. What is your greatest joy in life?

 

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Monday’s Theme Music

Sometimes, when firmly entrenched in the writing zone, I look up and ask myself, “Holy crap, what happened to the day?” Morning has passed into lunch, and lunch is long gone. I’m hungry and need a restroom. My coffee cup is almost empty; what remains is icicle cold. Looks like I’ve come to the end. Regret drenches me as I think of the other things that must be done, instead of writing, like eating and peeing. Yeah, weird, right?

But sometimes, when I’m in the zone, theme music like The Cars, “Good Times Roll,” comes over me. “Let the good times roll. Let them knock you around.” Yeah.

Writing so often is a series of logic problems that I create that I must then solve. Why did this happen? How was it resolved? Writing is solving one big question, the story’s arc, through multiple arcs, stories, and anecdotes that twist perceptions, throws up confusion, advances the premise, reveals more of the story, and helps the characters develop.

Ah, well. Let the good times roll, when they happen. “If the illusion is real, let them give you a ride.” It’s days like these, when I’m writing, and trying to exercise intelligence, imagination, and creativity, that I’m at my happiest, because I’m enjoying what I’m writing, but I’m enjoying it as much as a reader, because I’m just so deeply into it.

Let the good times roll.

 

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Dessert

Do you ever go into a restaurant and say to yourself, “I am so hungry, I’m starving,” and vow to get whatever you want, including dessert, but then, ordered something sensible and healthy instead, because, you know, you’re an adult and need to take care of your body?

Yeah, me, neither.

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Shuck It

You ever get the urge to shuck it all, just run away and find some place where you think you can enjoy life more as it’s meant to be, and start fresh as someone else?

Yeah, me, neither.

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