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"Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one else ever thought." - Albert Einstein.
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Always remember; we are all writers together.
This week’s prompt is given to us by a random word generator: ghost
Be sure to place the link for your completed story in the comments section of this post so we can find it. If you are late in posting, placed the link in both the comments section of the prompt, and the comments section of the current prompt, but please tag it as a late comer.
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If you do to participate in the Thursday Prompt remember that is good form to read your fellow participants. If you wish to give a critique, ask if the writer wishes one and then send it along in a private note.
Always remember; we are all writers together.
This week’s prompt is given to us by a random word generator: ghost
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I was close to crying when writing this.
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Hey there!
I had a very particular story in mind- a continuation of sorts, set parallel to Roadkill that I wrote for December 8th's prompt of 'road' and posted there- when I saw this past week's prompt of 'ghost'. I've had an idea in mind for a novel-length work or series of sequential novellas that I've been sparkplugging and fleshing out over the last two years, and it was part of what inspired the short narrative of Roadkill, involving Petit Soeur Loup/Petit Rouge (Little Sister Wolf/Little Red) and the unnamed courier who required extraction, in the dark future of the Geeteyae Sprawl, my home stomping grounds twenty or thirty years from now, at least proscribed by my predilection therein.
I intended to write my contribution to the December 15th Prompt this past Thursday evening, but after taking my nightly neuroleptic medication I fell asleep before I could set my fingers to keyboard and was not awake again until breakfast on Friday morning. I know the rule is that one needs to mark a late writing project as 'late'...and I am very uncomfortable doing this, like I have turned in as assignment late and stating it as a badge of shame; that it also marks my doing that writing as an obligation, which I cannot accept if I want to really enjoy being part of this group effort and sustain my contributions.
I know there is a certain order and accepted honour system in place for writing and setting to post one's Prompt Narrative or Poem on the Thursday for which the Prompt was chosen and issued, and I will not ask any rule to be broken or bent on my behalf. I may have to leave being part of the Thursday Prompt be for the time being, as my error and failure to myself has demoralized me and dampened my enthusiasm considerably. This is why I don't do commissioned artwork and never have intended nor ever intend to; I cannot maintain a reliable work ethic set to an external schedule because of how easily my mental state and stability can be flagged and worsened, or my limited psychological stamina depleted by an unexpected human encounter or technical trouble.
-2Paw.
I had a very particular story in mind- a continuation of sorts, set parallel to Roadkill that I wrote for December 8th's prompt of 'road' and posted there- when I saw this past week's prompt of 'ghost'. I've had an idea in mind for a novel-length work or series of sequential novellas that I've been sparkplugging and fleshing out over the last two years, and it was part of what inspired the short narrative of Roadkill, involving Petit Soeur Loup/Petit Rouge (Little Sister Wolf/Little Red) and the unnamed courier who required extraction, in the dark future of the Geeteyae Sprawl, my home stomping grounds twenty or thirty years from now, at least proscribed by my predilection therein.
I intended to write my contribution to the December 15th Prompt this past Thursday evening, but after taking my nightly neuroleptic medication I fell asleep before I could set my fingers to keyboard and was not awake again until breakfast on Friday morning. I know the rule is that one needs to mark a late writing project as 'late'...and I am very uncomfortable doing this, like I have turned in as assignment late and stating it as a badge of shame; that it also marks my doing that writing as an obligation, which I cannot accept if I want to really enjoy being part of this group effort and sustain my contributions.
I know there is a certain order and accepted honour system in place for writing and setting to post one's Prompt Narrative or Poem on the Thursday for which the Prompt was chosen and issued, and I will not ask any rule to be broken or bent on my behalf. I may have to leave being part of the Thursday Prompt be for the time being, as my error and failure to myself has demoralized me and dampened my enthusiasm considerably. This is why I don't do commissioned artwork and never have intended nor ever intend to; I cannot maintain a reliable work ethic set to an external schedule because of how easily my mental state and stability can be flagged and worsened, or my limited psychological stamina depleted by an unexpected human encounter or technical trouble.
-2Paw.
Thank you for the kindness of saying so, and your further kindness of welcome and sharing with me belonging, VixxyFox-friend. I am afraid that as much as I've improved over the last three decades on my personal confidence, belief in myself and my worth and in my ability to draw and write and day-to-day function, I am easily discouraged and still sensitive to disruption, and I have been very disappointed in myself and the unintended circumstances that led to not being able to write the short narrative set to the prompt of 'Ghost' I had intended to put to type and add to this past Thursday's contributions.
I think this is why the writing I do on my own at a set pace and amount per day, but that is entirely within my countenance of writing and completion at a pace and in an environment I can handle, is work I can do and sustain the doing of with the skillset I have and the natural and refined talents of creative expression and skilled roleplay and rendered narrative I've developed over more than thirty years of veterancy. I don't feel like I'm racing with anyone else, rather that I am racing with myself and challenging myself to embrace each day's writing, developing characters both new and old, and the pure novelty of addressed subject matter and narrative context I haven't worked with or have only considered, but not set to written linear-foot.
I am still learning, but that is not an admission of personal neglect or negative limitation; I am getting better, which is not embracing the behavioural illnesses and psychiatric limitations I've lived with for most of my life, but recognizing that I have made strides and sustained my efforts in coping with my illnesses, trusting in the care of others and their treatment and humanity shared with me, and in my own care that I do at home day-to-day, making sure I take my medication, eat and drink enough, and care for my body and mind in equal measure and met needs.
So I won't be away, just quiet for now. It will be easily likely that very soon a new prompt will inspire me, and I won't fall asleep before the result is written and posted on that Thursday.
-2Paw.
I think this is why the writing I do on my own at a set pace and amount per day, but that is entirely within my countenance of writing and completion at a pace and in an environment I can handle, is work I can do and sustain the doing of with the skillset I have and the natural and refined talents of creative expression and skilled roleplay and rendered narrative I've developed over more than thirty years of veterancy. I don't feel like I'm racing with anyone else, rather that I am racing with myself and challenging myself to embrace each day's writing, developing characters both new and old, and the pure novelty of addressed subject matter and narrative context I haven't worked with or have only considered, but not set to written linear-foot.
I am still learning, but that is not an admission of personal neglect or negative limitation; I am getting better, which is not embracing the behavioural illnesses and psychiatric limitations I've lived with for most of my life, but recognizing that I have made strides and sustained my efforts in coping with my illnesses, trusting in the care of others and their treatment and humanity shared with me, and in my own care that I do at home day-to-day, making sure I take my medication, eat and drink enough, and care for my body and mind in equal measure and met needs.
So I won't be away, just quiet for now. It will be easily likely that very soon a new prompt will inspire me, and I won't fall asleep before the result is written and posted on that Thursday.
-2Paw.
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