This not really a story but a sort of introduction to my writing. I am writing some very personal pieces at the moment about simple and raw emotions as I feel them appear.
I want to put them in some sort of collection this is meant to be both an introduction to that and my style.
Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoy it and find beauty :)
It always starts with weather inconceivable for the country and the time of year. Wales in summer. Humidity, rain and heat. The mind cannot fall into a resting place in such circumstances. The body is lazy. There has been a moth trapped in the house for two days. It sits on a stair. It flattened against a wall before. It does not move often.
Not everyone lives their life out on facebook, a play to their own projection. I am strawberries that wish to be oranges. What am I to write about? I just spent a day on YouTube and occasions spent sucking in the rainy air by planting my face out the window. Picking through notebooks there are unfinished letters and words I wrote which now I despise. Mists, missing shadows and a man with a striped nose fill my mind. But there is no plot or characters. Just myself and a room and finally at 23:42 the first cool air in the last of the day.
Don't tell me that I need to grab my readers attention in the first chapter, stanza, even word. Attention by its definition is fickle. I'm not to grab them by the balls and wrestle them until their throats thicken. The words retrieve their own meaning. A polka dot perceived as a square.
I am a badly placed pronoun and an adjective too many.There are no chapters in my life. I am passing by in an utilitarian block form poem. Punctuation is a beautiful law made not to punish. It is a juxtaposition of its own making, constricting the prose to extol its meaning. It was festered through cohesion, of which, communication is always the output. But I would write without it in long out of breath sentences if I were allowed to.
So I am a badly placed pronoun and an adjective to many. I am words in a breeze, rain at a funeral, thunder in a murder mystery and an abstract salad bowl of despair. I realise the warnings of Richard Dawkins that time is long and I am short of it. If my female legs could represent the percentile of my time on earth they would be stubby and chubby with cellulite all over. In comparison Kate Moss is a dinosaur. Her long legs span all kinds of spinning time. Let’s start at the ankles the reign of the dinosaurs. Thin and succulent. Infantile in evolution yet beasts in their own age. Then the calves, shape perfection, then to the knee caps and an ice age looms, meteors crash and an age of perfectionist beasts must die. But the stretch of her long thighs surpass those of shorter less evolved women. The skeletons of long past have been reborn and mounted in a glass cage for generations in civilisations to see.
May I suppurate over your dinner? I have wounds where healing as an outcome measure cannot dictate the scabs formation. When I fill my first moleskin I shall be so proud. To colloquialise the stressed west this is an emotional mountain I climb and the prose journey may be lethargic and cathartic like wading through a bowl of cooling porridge. So please read on but you have been warned. Love, excrement and of course death.
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Written by Phil (8763 comments posted) 3rd July 2009 |
Interesting and absorbing - but by the same measure a little frustrating. Well written with some very clever lines and images, but for this reader, not enough of them were developed enough. Even so - enjoyed the read. Phil |
Good exposition Written by kevinrobson73 (781 comments posted) 3rd July 2009 |
like a stream of consciousness do you edit? if so would be worthwhile to take just one or two ideas and expand as previously suggested |
Written by Veronica_Milvus (1147 comments posted) 3rd July 2009 |
There's some really indecipherable stuff in here. The pokla dot / square thing, the whole of the 5th paragraph. a lot of it is self-absorbed and not intelligible to your readers. However you do show that you have an eye for description. I liked the moth metahpor in the first para. An abstract salad bowl of despair? Not so much mixing your metaphors as tossing then in vinaigrette IMHO. The last para - have you been channeling TS Eliot? The porridge is cooling. |
Written by johniebg (611 comments posted) 3rd July 2009 |
| Great writing for the hell of it. The highlight the analogy of Kate Moss to a dinosaur. Beautiful. |
replies Written by alliepally (17 comments posted) 3rd July 2009 |
>Phil: glad you enjoyed it. Id love to know how to develop it. I don't really know how to do this. Any ideas/tutoring is more than welcome. >Kevinrobson: I agree, expansion of a few ideas would be good. Again how to/where to start. >Veronica_Milyus: thanks for your honesty. It is entirely self absorbed I agree. That's kinda the basis of it. But it should be readable. In all honesty I love the fifth paragraph, it is not going anywhere. The whole piece is about writing and the style I particularly can't help using. Its all metaphorical/ an analogy. "The words retrieve their own meaning. A polka dot perceived as a square." ---- Words are interpreted in a variety of ways by different readers. Thus a polka dot being seen as some entirely other shape. The salad bowl is meant to be a mixed metaphor. Because that whole line is talking about bad writing, using expressions that have been used countless times before. The Kate Moss leg thing? Basically how small we are in the comparison of time (your basic theme) then the metaphor my legs are short and dumpy, ie i am not famous, a nobody, forgettable. Kate moss compared to me is famous etc (the analogy) is a dinosour. Who reigned supreme and died but live on in museums. I compared this to her famous long legs. and I have never read anything by T.S Eliot. Perhaps I should. >Johniebg: Really glad you enjoyed it. |
free association Written by fellpony (2924 comments posted) 3rd July 2009 |
| as Johnny says, is writing for the hell of it; it is a great exercise but doesn't always travel in the direction you expect, so probably isn't ready for other readers until it's been edited a bit. It's produced some interesting images here (the moth, for one) and also some odd typos, eg festered ? fostered, and some odd sentences, facebook, a play to their own projection being one. A polka dot perceived as a square is still the same object and probably has the same attributes. As an equestrian writer once said, it doesn't matter if the horse thinks a tree looks like a sausage, so long as it always behaves the same way. |
Written by BillySoho (50 comments posted) 3rd July 2009 |
"A polkadot perceived as a square". Brilliant. And then there's "there are no chapters in my life". There are none in anybody's life until later and they look back. Very perceptive piece and well written. Would like to see more like this. |
Written by claudia7 (38 comments posted) 4th July 2009 |
I love the force of "Don't tell me that I need to grab my readers attention in the first chapter, stanza, even word..." - the irony being you DID grab my attention from the very beginning. A great opener. But of course I was sold on the title. This is brave and raw and different. It reminds me of a lot of the authors i love, at turns beautiful and rebellious, loving and despairing. Thank you. I look forward to reading more. What does "suppurate" mean, by the way?... c |
Thankyou Written by alliepally (17 comments posted) 4th July 2009 |
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Written by alliepally (17 comments posted) 4th July 2009 |
..sorry accidentally pressed post on that one ^. Thanks to every one for your feed back! This is a great way for me to get feedback as my writing is so personal I rarely let my familly and boyfriend see it. I will try to edit it. But this is what I find hardest but I shall try. And those who have asked for more well,.. certainly. @Claudia7 : supperate means to discharge puss from a wound. I used it because in that paragraph I was writting all about how the following pieces will be a spilling of emotion. I said 'over your dinner' because the 'supper' bit of the word is another way to say dinner so it kinda made me think of disturbing someone with wild emotion in a very mundane but personal moment such as eating dinner. Also its a gross image and just a little bit of a quirky sentence which is always funny. |
Interesting Title Written by Nick (786 comments posted) 5th July 2009 |
As with everyone above this is different, interesting, indecipherable and just some great writing for the hell of it. Some great lines in here. Particularly liked " time is long and I am short of it". Admittedly I was left more than little confused by the end but I think I see what you were trying to say. Nick |
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