Tag: writing

I use the word ‘kewl’ a lot, both in on-line chat and in-person conversations. In both cases I usually double it into ‘kewl kewl’. It is a response to indicate that I was actually listening to what you had to say, and a general comment of understanding and agreement. The spelling is specific and deliberate. Something in me hates with a passion the word ‘cool’. I don’t know exactly why, something to do with it being a word of the older generation, or maybe in my messed up brain I associate ‘cool’ with Americana and all the things I dis-like about the USA. So when I first stumbled across the ‘kewl’ spelling (back in 1994, give me some street creed here), I was drawn to it, and it has since stuck. I make no excuses or apologies. While it maybe crass and seem uneducated, just maybe I’m choosing from a position of informed determination. I’ve also noticed recently that I use the word ‘mate’ when chatting on-line, but never use it in in-person conversations. No idea what that means. I also use ‘lol’ on-line a lot, but never in-person. Here it is obvious, in-person someone can actually see if your laughing. On-line, I think ‘lol’ is more immediate and genuine than typing back ‘i find that very funny’.

Harry will always have the same problem, though he never will see it. With great dreams and no drive nothing will come of nothing. Harry desires many things, but none enough to get any. Harry is a fountain. Harry is a mop. Harry will always be a Harry, from the top to the very very top. Harry is a small man, who thinks he looks good in a big mans clothes. Harry never did exist, nor ever want to. Harry will always have the same problem, though he never will see it. Being a figmant, an image, a desire. Being a phanton, a shadow, a hunger. Better that than nothing at all. Harry will never love, never leave, never want. Harry is a random thought, an itch, a disaster. Harry will always have the same problem, though he never will see it. From the end to the very very end. From the middle it gets eaten. Up and down and around and around. Spinning still. Music drives everything. Harry will always have the same problem, though he never will see it. Harry is not nothing.

Due to the booming success of the previous challenge, I thought I’d start annother one.

Limits

• Must included the line: “The house wasn’t old enough to be scary.”
• No more than 1 hour!
• Short but well written is better than long but poorly written.

Go.

(PS: posting your work in the comments, or trackbacking to it to your blog would be really nice)

No idea. More to the point, I’m don’t think I’d want to be a top selling author. The quality of writing is rearly proportional to the comercial sucess. However from time to time I do write (and I like to think that some of it isn’t crap). But what to write? When? First an idea is needed. I have some tools and techniques that I use to create the spark, nothing all that interesting, but usually works when I’m stuck for an idea. Once I have an idea I look at all the possible stories I could tell with that and I start down the path that seems both interesting and challanging to me. But given the same spark another writer would never write the same thing. So with that in mind here is the brief: Write a short (very short) story (or whatever, peom, program code, pray) within these limitations, 250 words maximum, must include the word “cubic”, must have 2 character (no more, no less), and if you spend more than an hour on it you’ve taken too long.

Given my previous tirades on the subject of grammar, it is perhaps not surprising that I also have a obsession with punctuation. So an article like this can hardly be left alone. Short and Curlies Anyway, wot he said.