So let me get this straight, you let me drive the truck because of my week’s experience and then because of one little screw-up, I’m fired!
Random Word: Tenderfoot
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Showcase Wednesday #6
This is a Twitter story that caught my eye this week. Click on the heading if you want to visit the author’s Twitter Site. Or the post timestamp to go direct to the story.
Each comma was a slash with a blade. The gaps between each word, final gasps. Brackets, clasped to the throat and crushing. A death sentence.
Celtic Dreams
Basically most traditional stories as published are neither good literature or good oral tales ready for the telling - you write them very differently. Nor are they related back to the actual society that produced them so they often lack nuances that would enrich them. So I rewrite from one version and then check this against other known versions to build up the most dramatic three act version.
This is then checked against umpteen books about the Celts to see if this affects the story. For example Celts had a very layered society so the amount of the blood-fine paid (if you killed a man you paid a fine to the family to avoid a blood-feud) depended on honour-status. Also the decisions of this process laid more with professional lawsayers then the chiefs who could not make law. If you know The Sons of Tuirenn these are very relevant to how the story could be told.
Then on the way home, an idea poked in, which that I could re-imagine a whole range of Celtic stories but in two versions- one as drama-literature and the other as a retelling version. So at a stroke I would enrage the traditionalists, the nationalists and the odd wandering Bard. Must be a winner!
Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Love found lost by moonlight
The Wolf growled. ‘And there's me thinking you were getting warmed up for me. But I’m a man most nights.’
‘You are!’
The tears falling said love not dinner called.
Random Word:Splish Splash
A perfect night
It was in that brief moment before her twelfth strike that Belinda regretted not spending more time in checking the condition of her panties
Random Word:Cursory
Monday, 7 June 2010
If you love somebody, let them go…
Read me a bedtime story. The face pleading with her willing eyes came into his mind again. Filling each nerve with a white-hot pain.
Looking at him writhe, the scientists were pleased with the new home based punishment system.
Mary, just looked on, pleased he couldn't threaten a divorce again.
Random Word: In Bed
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Six Word Saturday#12
Describing your life (or something) onat the moment of writing on a Saturday in a phrase using just six words.
Holiday: watched seven series of Shameless!**
** Blisteringly funny, offbeat drama following the rollercoaster lives and loves of an anarchic family from Manchester. Meet the Gallaghers. Mum went AWOL years ago, Dad stayed at home with the six children only to hit the bottle. And sometimes the kids… The real head of the family is big sister Fiona, who looks after Carl, Debbie and baby Liam. She is occasionally helped, more often hindered, by reluctant virgin ‘Lip’ and the actively gay, but very private, Ian. Its shown on BBC America. Think The Simpsons but much, much more adult in content, humour and depicts the feckless working class who just want to party!
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