August 15, 2011 Did You Write?
Each week I offer a place to talk about what is going on in your life. As a side advantage, I also give you a chance to talk about your writing. The hope is that you will realize with your post that you did not write or did not meet your writing goals this week and will strive to open your work in progress the following week so you can report that you corrected your previous bad habit. I have had many times where the guilt of not writing, had forced me to write something the following week. That is what I am hoping for, for the rest of you.
How much writing is not important. One word, ten thousand words, it does not matter, as long as you write. We all have had times where we had to zap entire sections of text in order to correct a problem so while you may have typed vast amounts of words, your actual word count was not impressive.
As to what is writing, we all know that new writing is writing. Editing is also writing, even if it is the work of others. Critiquing is also writing. Also as writing is Technical writing, writing assignments, articles, blogging, character or world creation. Even E-mails can be writing if they are wordy and pertain to writing or stories. If you have to ask if it is writing, The answer is yes.
For me, I have been writing. I posted a story idea early last month and it kept nagging at me I decided it had to be developed a little farther. then I found I needed to do a little more on it. now I am trying to write it out completely as a series of short stories. It is not the same story that seeded the concept, because of practical necessities of story telling.
The SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE has pulled on me and I have not touched my Waxy story all week because this one is writing itself for me. Last week I started with the new scenes I wrote about it, then pulled in the story idea into the text for reference. I have since pulled the story idea back out because it was no longer valid, having been rewritten, and the scene I wrote originally, is about to go away too. I have written a lot more than my 3745 words this week would show. I went from page 4 to page 14 for a total of 5304 words.
My writing is crap right now, but it is sure fun getting it on paper. It is exciting.
On the story idea front, the ideas are barely coming in. I am coming up with about an idea a day. I have a meeting this week and will miss a day. With the two ideas I am posting today, I have 34 ideas in the compost pile. disappointing to say the least. Luckily, I have had some fairly good ideas to work with. Even the bad new ideas were not all that bad. yes, I am 34 ideas ahead of the days in the compost pile, but I have had enough bad weeks of not having something new and there are enough poor ideas in there to not want to test the stack too far.
I have a lot of hobby projects going on. I had picked up a whole bunch of yarn. I also got a bunch of unfinished projects, namely granny squares. some granny squares are a foot across while others are as small as four inches across. I also made a few of my own. I decided to make all the existing granny squares the same size and then make more, using up my yarn stash, and come up with a blanket. At least that is the plan.
I am close to finishing a crochet yarn bag I am making using bits and pieces of yarn (an odd ball). I figured out to add rods on the top edge of the long side to give it shape. I made buttons for it and then a button loop and have all that attached. The handle is all I have to do to call it finished and I am less than half way on that at minimum. I may make double the size when I get to the end and fold it in half for strength. will see.
I am applying varnish to a face vase I finished carving last week. It is looking good. I have several goblets and other pieces that are close to being finished.
This week, I realized that some big slabs of wood I have, had a dragon inside it. I examined them carefully and figured out where the dragon was. I separated that from the rest of the slab and drew some lines. Now I just have to remove the excess wood to free the dragon from the prison it is in.
Using the above for a story idea, a baby dragon got lost from the nest. got really tired so it climbed into a fold in a tree to rest and hide while it slept.
A magician who worked for a logging company came by and cast a spell on the trees to make them grow big and thick they grew rapidly over night. The problem is that anything inside the wood got trapped. it did not kill them, but they were frozen in place.
Years later, the logging company harvested the trees in that section. In the milling process to make boards and stuff, most creatures were sliced up. they simply died, with no sign they were in there as they were essentially made of wood. The loggers would not have cared even if they knew about it.
An old wood carver is searching the logged area for usable chunks and cuttings. He found a big thick slab of wood that was rather interesting. He got that into his wagon with it buried under branches and short logs.
Several months later, he looks at the piece of wood and keeps coming back to it. There is something interesting about it. He senses something is inside. He removes the part that contains what is interesting and then starts chopping away the excess wood. As he gets closer, the form becomes apparent.
Following the form he sees, he removes all the excess wood even from beneath the scales. he now has a realistic baby dragon sitting on his table. For some reason, he is sitting up as the moon rises. the moonlight lands on the carving. the carving starts to move, and becomes the baby dragon again. He does not know if it will become wood when daylight comes. whether he has a baby dragon or a excellent carving, he will be the talk of the town.
As to the question of the day,
I can honestly say
YES I DID WRITE
DID YOU WRITE?
Monday, August 15, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Week 605 wood working
Year 11, Week 31, Day One (week 605) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 08-13-11 Saturday
90 degrees at ten, 98 degrees by one. light breeze all day, enough to move some light sawdust. Clouds moved nicely and changed often, high wisps, puffs and towers at various times in the West and East, and then disappear. Some clouds passed over head, giving temporary shade only for the sun to come out again and deep blue skies.
During the week, we had unseasonably frigid temperatures. It was in the high 70s at night several days. It was almost cold enough to light the fireplaces.... This weather report is brought to you by the City Of Pompano Beach Department of Tourism.
DURING THE WEEK
I started the process of varnishing the face vase and various goblets. I have soaked them a couple times in wipe on varnish. I do that to get the varnish into every nook and cranny and fiber. I will then use spray varnish for remaining coats.
Here is a tip: If you get varnish on your hands, rub some oil all over your hands, and then wash with soap and water. The oil picks up the varnish, and the soap and water picks up the oil. At Mom's house, I generally use motor oil as that is what is available. At home, I have some vegetable oil that was past its date years ago and work some of that into my hands. If you are worried about chemicals, any cooking oil will work. Use the cheap stuff. Anyway, when done, the varnish is gone.
I started on the handle for the yarn bag in the truck. I got an idea on the bag and will test it out Saturday.
At home, while waiting for pages to load and other things, I took some small granny squares and am expanding them. I came up with the idea that since I have some I made and that others made, I might as well make them all the same size and make new ones and make some form of blanket to get rid of a lot of my yarn stock.
SATURDAY
During breakfast, we saw in a city paper that red mulch was on sale. we went home and got my truck. We got fifteen bags of mulch. This was the main reason I got my truck in the first place. It is easier for mom to go with me to get stuff, than to make arrangements with my brother, or try to fit them in her van.
Before we got the mulch, we went yard sailing. I ended up with two stock pots without lids for three bucks. I know I will have a use for them, but don't know what yet. I might even use them for cooking.
The two pots side by side, the big one was dollar fifty, the small was was a dollar.
The small pot inside the big one to show the sizes.
After a few quick relocation of potted plants for Mom, I got my equipment out of the truck and unloaded the mulch. I dug out my two pieces of Norfolk slabs and examined them. I put the larger of the two back.
Two pieces of Norfolk Island Pine slabs. The one on the right is the dragon wood. That branch at the bottom contains the head.
The slab I left out has a dragon hiding inside there. I have to figure out exactly where it is, and then figure out how to get it out of the wood. I don't know whether the dragon is curled around or straight. The wood is too thick to really tell. I think I know where the head is but have to look at the wood more to be sure. This will be chain saw work to get close to the dragon.
I dragged the lathe out and mounted a small stick of wood in it. This was either pine or basswood. I noticed a crack in one end but ignored it. I was making balls-beads- for a project. I made six beads and cut them apart at the band saw. Two fell in half at the band saw. another came apart as I was about to sand the end.
I sanded the ends of the last three. Three was not going to work for this project so I took a piece of mahogany or black walnut. I did not look carefully as to which. I am pretty sure it is black walnut. I cut a length of it and then knocked off the corners like I did the first stick, and then measured off for the balls to be roughly even in length. I added a tiny bit for the space between.
I then cut in the beads with a pointed parting tool. when u sed right, it acts like a skew to peel off the wood forming the balls.
I am not very accurate and they were not exactly round. they were close enough for this project though. I think I made ten or twelve of the balls when done.
I cut them apart on the band saw and sanded the rough ends to round them slightly. I took out a drill press- a hand drill mounted in a drill press type arrangement. I drilled each of the beads, though some were not exactly centered.
The yarn bag with skewers and balls. I have a set inside on the bottom too.
I took the yarn bag I had made and wove a skewer through the top edge. I measured several times and then adjusted the position of the weave a little. After cutting off the points of the skewers, I glued a ball on each end. I then did the second side getting it roughly in line. Again I glued beads to the ends.
When I made the bag, I had set the walls in a stitch or two on the base. I ran a skewer through the exposed edge on each side, having the balls glued on. I then turned it inside out.
This setup works nicely. One can grab the edge and it holds it closed, and the skewer=ball design helps the bag keep its shape. Now all I have to do is to finish making the handle, which I am now a quarter of the way on, and then make the loop to fit on one of the buttons I made and I can call it done.
While the beast of the back yard slept at my feet, I worked on the handle of the bag, making it longer. I am using bits and pieces of yarn and it is, right now, made up of blocks of colors. It is coming along nicely.
I have several pieces that need inlay added. I never got to them.
A little tip that will save you a lot of money. Store your ACC glue in the fridge. The cold keeps it good for years, while if you leave it out at room temperature, especially in hot weather, they will go bad, dry up, become unusable.
For tomorrow, I need to work with that dragon wood. when soaked in linseed oil, Norfolk Island pine gets some great colors running through it. that was one reason I chose this slab for the dragon. One problem is that the grain of the wood will run top to bottom, not running through the body lengthways. It will be comparatively fragile.
I have a number of projects that need to be finished. I have loads of wood that needs to be worked. I have cats to pet and lizards to feed.
The turning club meeting is this week and will be on Wednesday rather than Thursday. That changes my plans a little for the week. I may bring some of my goblets with me tomorrow to give the a light sanding before I varnish them some more.
I will see what I do tomorrow.
Year 11, Week 31, Day two (week 605) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 08-14-11 Sunday
80 degrees early morning over 90 in the afternoon. The ground wet, the air felt wet. Blue skies with some bits of white on the east and west horizon. That disappeared quickly and had a deep blue sky. Later, puffs started showing up and a haze developed between them. it was still mostly sunny all day long. The breeze was very light all day long but the air dried out so it did not feel as hot as it could have. This weather report is brought to you by the City Of Pompano Beach Department of Tourism.
My first project was to feed and pet the cats. Scarface did not look like he was limping today. He had been fighting as of late. Last week he was in pretty bad condition. I do not know if he fought this past week. It is hard to tell new from old wounds.
The beast was acting so much like a cat that I had to check several times to see if an imposter had slipped in his place.
It dawned on me that I can show off my yarn bag at the turning club meeting since I do have wood working on it. I sat and made a button loop to hold the bag closed. I have sewn the loop and button on. I had added a barrel button with an eye screw but that kept slipping out, so I screwed the eye hook into the back of the Popular wood button I made and that works better.
On the handle, I have it where it goes down the side, across the bottom and back up the side and a little bit more. I need to do twice that length, and then the loop for the handle,
Mom said the skewers I was using were not strong enough. I found out that she was right. I have bigger skewers and will replace them. I may have to turn new balls for the ends. will see next week.
This is a quick mock-up of the strap and loop. The strap would loop up the same way on the other side.
I picked up the piece of wood I thought a dragon was in, and examined it carefully. I did find a dragon. I decided exactly where it was. the tail went along side a split-inclusion. I tried splitting it with a hatchet and hammer but did not do too much to it. I then took out some hand saws from my truck and tried cutting with that. I then remembered why power was created.
original block of wood. (actually already cut in half). If you look carefully, you might see a bit of the drawing of the dragon
I dug out my electric chain saw and started cutting. Part way in, I saw smoke coming from the wood and stopped. the dull blades were scorching the wood. I guess I had either find a saw sharpener or buy one.
I dug out Mom's chain saw and it ate the wood like nothing, cutting it most of the way down. I decided to save some wood and stopped. I turned the wood on end and cut down from outside, missing part of the cut. I turned it back and finished the cut.
wood pieces separated
I then decided to remove the bark, using a screw driver and hammer to pry the bark away. I saw a few worms already in the wood. they got in there fast. I really need to remove the bark from the other piece too.
Once I had the bark removed, I worried that there was not enough wood for the dragon.
finished cut and cleaned wood. The branch is where the head is.
I turned it all around, studying it from every angle. Yes the dragon is fully in there and the shape of the wood will help in the carving. I drew some lines on it as to where certain parts were, but will wait a week or two before I start freeing the dragon from the wood.
I will attach the wings to the body after I have the body mostly carved.
A piece of bark that I might carve after it has dried for bark carving.
I took a bunch of pieces that I plan to take to the turning club meeting and gave them a light sanding and then applied several coats of spray varnish. I will have to sand and varnish them several times more, but they are getting close to presentable.
Pieces I am varnishing for the turning club meeting.
I have a turning club meeting on Wednesday. The school where we meet has an event for Thursday, so we were bumped to the day before. It happens that I am the only one in my company not working on Fridays. Not enough work. When the club meeting is on Thursday, I get to sleep in on Friday to recover. With it on Wednesday, I will suffer through Thursday.
The turning club meeting will be interesting. We will have a turning club challenge where they get people to make things that they normally don't do. This month it is goblets. I will have mine on display.
The club demonstration is in making rolling pins. That should be really good. I have threatened, in my mind anyway, to make some rolling pins. I hope to learn something.
For next weekend, I will look at the dragon a little more. I will likely weave in larger dowels and make new balls for the yarn bag. I have several items that need to be finished, including two vases that need to be carved and a tea pot. I have loads of wood waiting for me to make into sawdust. I have a metal working lathe that has not been taken out of the box in a couple months. Mom is going to want me to trim the palm trees. They really need it.
I will see what I actually do next week.
90 degrees at ten, 98 degrees by one. light breeze all day, enough to move some light sawdust. Clouds moved nicely and changed often, high wisps, puffs and towers at various times in the West and East, and then disappear. Some clouds passed over head, giving temporary shade only for the sun to come out again and deep blue skies.
During the week, we had unseasonably frigid temperatures. It was in the high 70s at night several days. It was almost cold enough to light the fireplaces.... This weather report is brought to you by the City Of Pompano Beach Department of Tourism.
DURING THE WEEK
I started the process of varnishing the face vase and various goblets. I have soaked them a couple times in wipe on varnish. I do that to get the varnish into every nook and cranny and fiber. I will then use spray varnish for remaining coats.
Here is a tip: If you get varnish on your hands, rub some oil all over your hands, and then wash with soap and water. The oil picks up the varnish, and the soap and water picks up the oil. At Mom's house, I generally use motor oil as that is what is available. At home, I have some vegetable oil that was past its date years ago and work some of that into my hands. If you are worried about chemicals, any cooking oil will work. Use the cheap stuff. Anyway, when done, the varnish is gone.
I started on the handle for the yarn bag in the truck. I got an idea on the bag and will test it out Saturday.
At home, while waiting for pages to load and other things, I took some small granny squares and am expanding them. I came up with the idea that since I have some I made and that others made, I might as well make them all the same size and make new ones and make some form of blanket to get rid of a lot of my yarn stock.
SATURDAY
During breakfast, we saw in a city paper that red mulch was on sale. we went home and got my truck. We got fifteen bags of mulch. This was the main reason I got my truck in the first place. It is easier for mom to go with me to get stuff, than to make arrangements with my brother, or try to fit them in her van.
Before we got the mulch, we went yard sailing. I ended up with two stock pots without lids for three bucks. I know I will have a use for them, but don't know what yet. I might even use them for cooking.
The two pots side by side, the big one was dollar fifty, the small was was a dollar.
The small pot inside the big one to show the sizes.
After a few quick relocation of potted plants for Mom, I got my equipment out of the truck and unloaded the mulch. I dug out my two pieces of Norfolk slabs and examined them. I put the larger of the two back.
Two pieces of Norfolk Island Pine slabs. The one on the right is the dragon wood. That branch at the bottom contains the head.
The slab I left out has a dragon hiding inside there. I have to figure out exactly where it is, and then figure out how to get it out of the wood. I don't know whether the dragon is curled around or straight. The wood is too thick to really tell. I think I know where the head is but have to look at the wood more to be sure. This will be chain saw work to get close to the dragon.
I dragged the lathe out and mounted a small stick of wood in it. This was either pine or basswood. I noticed a crack in one end but ignored it. I was making balls-beads- for a project. I made six beads and cut them apart at the band saw. Two fell in half at the band saw. another came apart as I was about to sand the end.
I sanded the ends of the last three. Three was not going to work for this project so I took a piece of mahogany or black walnut. I did not look carefully as to which. I am pretty sure it is black walnut. I cut a length of it and then knocked off the corners like I did the first stick, and then measured off for the balls to be roughly even in length. I added a tiny bit for the space between.
I then cut in the beads with a pointed parting tool. when u sed right, it acts like a skew to peel off the wood forming the balls.
I am not very accurate and they were not exactly round. they were close enough for this project though. I think I made ten or twelve of the balls when done.
I cut them apart on the band saw and sanded the rough ends to round them slightly. I took out a drill press- a hand drill mounted in a drill press type arrangement. I drilled each of the beads, though some were not exactly centered.
The yarn bag with skewers and balls. I have a set inside on the bottom too.
I took the yarn bag I had made and wove a skewer through the top edge. I measured several times and then adjusted the position of the weave a little. After cutting off the points of the skewers, I glued a ball on each end. I then did the second side getting it roughly in line. Again I glued beads to the ends.
When I made the bag, I had set the walls in a stitch or two on the base. I ran a skewer through the exposed edge on each side, having the balls glued on. I then turned it inside out.
This setup works nicely. One can grab the edge and it holds it closed, and the skewer=ball design helps the bag keep its shape. Now all I have to do is to finish making the handle, which I am now a quarter of the way on, and then make the loop to fit on one of the buttons I made and I can call it done.
While the beast of the back yard slept at my feet, I worked on the handle of the bag, making it longer. I am using bits and pieces of yarn and it is, right now, made up of blocks of colors. It is coming along nicely.
I have several pieces that need inlay added. I never got to them.
A little tip that will save you a lot of money. Store your ACC glue in the fridge. The cold keeps it good for years, while if you leave it out at room temperature, especially in hot weather, they will go bad, dry up, become unusable.
For tomorrow, I need to work with that dragon wood. when soaked in linseed oil, Norfolk Island pine gets some great colors running through it. that was one reason I chose this slab for the dragon. One problem is that the grain of the wood will run top to bottom, not running through the body lengthways. It will be comparatively fragile.
I have a number of projects that need to be finished. I have loads of wood that needs to be worked. I have cats to pet and lizards to feed.
The turning club meeting is this week and will be on Wednesday rather than Thursday. That changes my plans a little for the week. I may bring some of my goblets with me tomorrow to give the a light sanding before I varnish them some more.
I will see what I do tomorrow.
Year 11, Week 31, Day two (week 605) (January 17, 2000 was my first carving day.) 08-14-11 Sunday
80 degrees early morning over 90 in the afternoon. The ground wet, the air felt wet. Blue skies with some bits of white on the east and west horizon. That disappeared quickly and had a deep blue sky. Later, puffs started showing up and a haze developed between them. it was still mostly sunny all day long. The breeze was very light all day long but the air dried out so it did not feel as hot as it could have. This weather report is brought to you by the City Of Pompano Beach Department of Tourism.
My first project was to feed and pet the cats. Scarface did not look like he was limping today. He had been fighting as of late. Last week he was in pretty bad condition. I do not know if he fought this past week. It is hard to tell new from old wounds.
The beast was acting so much like a cat that I had to check several times to see if an imposter had slipped in his place.
It dawned on me that I can show off my yarn bag at the turning club meeting since I do have wood working on it. I sat and made a button loop to hold the bag closed. I have sewn the loop and button on. I had added a barrel button with an eye screw but that kept slipping out, so I screwed the eye hook into the back of the Popular wood button I made and that works better.
On the handle, I have it where it goes down the side, across the bottom and back up the side and a little bit more. I need to do twice that length, and then the loop for the handle,
Mom said the skewers I was using were not strong enough. I found out that she was right. I have bigger skewers and will replace them. I may have to turn new balls for the ends. will see next week.
This is a quick mock-up of the strap and loop. The strap would loop up the same way on the other side.
I picked up the piece of wood I thought a dragon was in, and examined it carefully. I did find a dragon. I decided exactly where it was. the tail went along side a split-inclusion. I tried splitting it with a hatchet and hammer but did not do too much to it. I then took out some hand saws from my truck and tried cutting with that. I then remembered why power was created.
original block of wood. (actually already cut in half). If you look carefully, you might see a bit of the drawing of the dragon
I dug out my electric chain saw and started cutting. Part way in, I saw smoke coming from the wood and stopped. the dull blades were scorching the wood. I guess I had either find a saw sharpener or buy one.
I dug out Mom's chain saw and it ate the wood like nothing, cutting it most of the way down. I decided to save some wood and stopped. I turned the wood on end and cut down from outside, missing part of the cut. I turned it back and finished the cut.
wood pieces separated
I then decided to remove the bark, using a screw driver and hammer to pry the bark away. I saw a few worms already in the wood. they got in there fast. I really need to remove the bark from the other piece too.
Once I had the bark removed, I worried that there was not enough wood for the dragon.
finished cut and cleaned wood. The branch is where the head is.
I turned it all around, studying it from every angle. Yes the dragon is fully in there and the shape of the wood will help in the carving. I drew some lines on it as to where certain parts were, but will wait a week or two before I start freeing the dragon from the wood.
I will attach the wings to the body after I have the body mostly carved.
A piece of bark that I might carve after it has dried for bark carving.
I took a bunch of pieces that I plan to take to the turning club meeting and gave them a light sanding and then applied several coats of spray varnish. I will have to sand and varnish them several times more, but they are getting close to presentable.
Pieces I am varnishing for the turning club meeting.
I have a turning club meeting on Wednesday. The school where we meet has an event for Thursday, so we were bumped to the day before. It happens that I am the only one in my company not working on Fridays. Not enough work. When the club meeting is on Thursday, I get to sleep in on Friday to recover. With it on Wednesday, I will suffer through Thursday.
The turning club meeting will be interesting. We will have a turning club challenge where they get people to make things that they normally don't do. This month it is goblets. I will have mine on display.
The club demonstration is in making rolling pins. That should be really good. I have threatened, in my mind anyway, to make some rolling pins. I hope to learn something.
For next weekend, I will look at the dragon a little more. I will likely weave in larger dowels and make new balls for the yarn bag. I have several items that need to be finished, including two vases that need to be carved and a tea pot. I have loads of wood waiting for me to make into sawdust. I have a metal working lathe that has not been taken out of the box in a couple months. Mom is going to want me to trim the palm trees. They really need it.
I will see what I actually do next week.
Monday, August 8, 2011
Did you write? 08-08-11
Did you write? 08-08-11
There are those among us who write once every few months. There are those among us who might write a couple times a month. This note is to entice these would-be writers to write more often.
The idea is that everybody report here about what is going on in your lives, and, in the process, report whether you wrote or not. Each week you report here and did not write, guilt and shame is supposed to set in so that you will resolve to write the next week. Each week you can report that you wrote, is a feather in your cap.
Regular writing, even if it is just a few words, eventually adds up to a lot of words, and a regular habit.
While we use word or page counts to show how much you wrote, these statistics are not the only measurement one can use. One might remove an entire section because it is not working. If one is editing, one might be out to reduce the word count to fit a given market. Some of us have specific word counts per week or per day to aim for and are deflated when we miss that count. I feel that if you wrote one word during the week, you have done something.
As to what is writing, We all agree that new writing is writing. Editing, though is also writing, even if it is the work of others. Critiquing is also a form of editing and therefore writing.
Poetry, blogging, technical writing, articles, writing assignments, world and character creation are also writing. E-mails can also be writing if they are wordy and pertain to story or writing. Of course, many of us might not agree with some of these but here, you have permission to count them as writing. Essentially, if you have to ask if counts as writing, the answer is always yes.
I am keeping up with the new month on my story ideas. I am not getting many story ideas to pile onto my compost pile. I have 34 ideas, including what I am posting tonight, in the compost pile. I would rather have 94 ideas there with half being excellent, but the ideas are not coming along at a spectacular rate.
In reality, I am not doing bad. I am getting enough ideas for the week. I am just not getting a lot of extra ideas. I had 32 story ideas last week and 34 this week. I come up with ideas at about that rate most of the year. It is those days where three or four ideas appear that make it really fun. those are the days that I actually gain on the compost pile.
I am not doing too great on my waxy story. I am in a section where dialogue is the main thing and I am not great at that. I added four pages of it and only 1368 words. disappointing. Life is keeping me from writing more.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a passage for a super hero story. A few more scenes are pounding at my head so I may dig into it for a bit for a little change. The super hero is an enemy combatant out for revenge and information from the mob. The mob will eventually lead the super hero to the politicians who are the cause of the war between the two countries. I like this super hero as there is no qualms about collateral damage, torture, and other "niceties". The police is happy that the mob is being taken out, but not the way it is happening.
I doubt this will go anywhere, but it does have a fun factor involved.
This Saturday, I emptied and re-stacked everything in the work-shed so more stuff can be stored in there should a hurricane come this summer. Sunday, I removed stuff piled on the work bench and re-stacked it, sorted, cleaning everything. with that stuff consolidated, at least in theory, it will make it a bit easier to gather it up to put things away if needed.
In this process, I found a number of things I did not know was there. One thing I sort of saw Saturday, became of use Sunday when my brother brought a different brand of it.
A month or so ago, I had finished a teddy bear dress in Crochet and did not like the results. It was a big yellow panel. I decided to redo the panel. After several design changes, I got to the end and it looked like it was for a pregnant teddy bear. I made a design change to hide the effect and make it look much better. I have finally decided it is forever done. I am not going to do anything else with it. It is done!!
I had finished the body of a bag I was crocheting and am now started on the straps. I made some wooden buttons for this and am running some designs through my mind as I work. One will involve woodworking besides the buttons.
For a story idea about the above, the company empties warehouses and piles them in storage. The plan is to eventually hall th is stuff off the planet when it is finally abandoned. They have been doing this for years. They are running out of room in storage.
He is charged with going through the warehouses, sorting everything and stacking them so they can have more room, and also find stuff they can make use of.
The first thing he does is go through the storage bay and finds several that are not near full. He will use those to start his work. Going through them, he puts like things in each one. papers, documents and such supplies in one, tools, appliances, equipment in another, general supplies in one, and so on. As he tackles a new warehouse, he tries to get that stuff in his first bays. After a couple, he finds he needs to separate plastic supplies from metal supplies. then he sorts appliances from machinery. He marks on the bays what is in them.
He could just put more of the same in other bays when they fill up, but instead he sorts them more It is more work on making sure stuff goes where it belongs, but it is easier to find stuff. the crews come in and ask for something, he gets the stuff for them quickly.
by the time he has done half the bays, he has freed up several more bays. The supplies keep coming in and he continues to sort them.
Eventually, they find they have to leave before they planned to as the reason for abandoning the planet is ahead of schedule.
He has the officials read the writing on the bays and decide what is more valuable to keep and what is worthless enough to leave behind. They make their decisions and fill available space on the ships with what is of value. While only half the bays are sorted, they cannot take any more anyway.
the planet is abandoned but the process was well worth the effort. Because of the brilliance of his work, he is compensated well for getting them the value of the cargo that they did.
As to the question of the day
I can honestly say
YES, I DID WRITE
DID YOU WRITE?
There are those among us who write once every few months. There are those among us who might write a couple times a month. This note is to entice these would-be writers to write more often.
The idea is that everybody report here about what is going on in your lives, and, in the process, report whether you wrote or not. Each week you report here and did not write, guilt and shame is supposed to set in so that you will resolve to write the next week. Each week you can report that you wrote, is a feather in your cap.
Regular writing, even if it is just a few words, eventually adds up to a lot of words, and a regular habit.
While we use word or page counts to show how much you wrote, these statistics are not the only measurement one can use. One might remove an entire section because it is not working. If one is editing, one might be out to reduce the word count to fit a given market. Some of us have specific word counts per week or per day to aim for and are deflated when we miss that count. I feel that if you wrote one word during the week, you have done something.
As to what is writing, We all agree that new writing is writing. Editing, though is also writing, even if it is the work of others. Critiquing is also a form of editing and therefore writing.
Poetry, blogging, technical writing, articles, writing assignments, world and character creation are also writing. E-mails can also be writing if they are wordy and pertain to story or writing. Of course, many of us might not agree with some of these but here, you have permission to count them as writing. Essentially, if you have to ask if counts as writing, the answer is always yes.
I am keeping up with the new month on my story ideas. I am not getting many story ideas to pile onto my compost pile. I have 34 ideas, including what I am posting tonight, in the compost pile. I would rather have 94 ideas there with half being excellent, but the ideas are not coming along at a spectacular rate.
In reality, I am not doing bad. I am getting enough ideas for the week. I am just not getting a lot of extra ideas. I had 32 story ideas last week and 34 this week. I come up with ideas at about that rate most of the year. It is those days where three or four ideas appear that make it really fun. those are the days that I actually gain on the compost pile.
I am not doing too great on my waxy story. I am in a section where dialogue is the main thing and I am not great at that. I added four pages of it and only 1368 words. disappointing. Life is keeping me from writing more.
A few weeks ago, I wrote a passage for a super hero story. A few more scenes are pounding at my head so I may dig into it for a bit for a little change. The super hero is an enemy combatant out for revenge and information from the mob. The mob will eventually lead the super hero to the politicians who are the cause of the war between the two countries. I like this super hero as there is no qualms about collateral damage, torture, and other "niceties". The police is happy that the mob is being taken out, but not the way it is happening.
I doubt this will go anywhere, but it does have a fun factor involved.
This Saturday, I emptied and re-stacked everything in the work-shed so more stuff can be stored in there should a hurricane come this summer. Sunday, I removed stuff piled on the work bench and re-stacked it, sorted, cleaning everything. with that stuff consolidated, at least in theory, it will make it a bit easier to gather it up to put things away if needed.
In this process, I found a number of things I did not know was there. One thing I sort of saw Saturday, became of use Sunday when my brother brought a different brand of it.
A month or so ago, I had finished a teddy bear dress in Crochet and did not like the results. It was a big yellow panel. I decided to redo the panel. After several design changes, I got to the end and it looked like it was for a pregnant teddy bear. I made a design change to hide the effect and make it look much better. I have finally decided it is forever done. I am not going to do anything else with it. It is done!!
I had finished the body of a bag I was crocheting and am now started on the straps. I made some wooden buttons for this and am running some designs through my mind as I work. One will involve woodworking besides the buttons.
For a story idea about the above, the company empties warehouses and piles them in storage. The plan is to eventually hall th is stuff off the planet when it is finally abandoned. They have been doing this for years. They are running out of room in storage.
He is charged with going through the warehouses, sorting everything and stacking them so they can have more room, and also find stuff they can make use of.
The first thing he does is go through the storage bay and finds several that are not near full. He will use those to start his work. Going through them, he puts like things in each one. papers, documents and such supplies in one, tools, appliances, equipment in another, general supplies in one, and so on. As he tackles a new warehouse, he tries to get that stuff in his first bays. After a couple, he finds he needs to separate plastic supplies from metal supplies. then he sorts appliances from machinery. He marks on the bays what is in them.
He could just put more of the same in other bays when they fill up, but instead he sorts them more It is more work on making sure stuff goes where it belongs, but it is easier to find stuff. the crews come in and ask for something, he gets the stuff for them quickly.
by the time he has done half the bays, he has freed up several more bays. The supplies keep coming in and he continues to sort them.
Eventually, they find they have to leave before they planned to as the reason for abandoning the planet is ahead of schedule.
He has the officials read the writing on the bays and decide what is more valuable to keep and what is worthless enough to leave behind. They make their decisions and fill available space on the ships with what is of value. While only half the bays are sorted, they cannot take any more anyway.
the planet is abandoned but the process was well worth the effort. Because of the brilliance of his work, he is compensated well for getting them the value of the cargo that they did.
As to the question of the day
I can honestly say
YES, I DID WRITE
DID YOU WRITE?
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