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Eyesore
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:17 am | |
| Don't think, just go for it!
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Tall Tyrion
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 11:26 am | |
| I agree, give it your best shot.  |
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Shiney
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:41 pm | |
| That is a great book by him....
I'm a big King fan ( I sent him a very rough horror story when I was in 7th grade and he returned the story and a form xerox standard reply letter...BUT on the back he took the time to handwrite that he liked the story idea and thought I should work on it....and he was flattered I took the time to seek out and ask his opinion....
That meant so much to me....
Now over the years I have ceased writing as much as I once did (kids and work have a way of ALWAYS taking the front seat) but I still write on occasion and have many many ideas jotted down here and there (I'd like to collaborate on an apocalyptic horror/fantasy poetry project with Eyesore)
But I write for me and me only...not for anyone else.....which is what you should do....
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 12:59 pm | |
| I have a similar situation as Shiney.
As a youth I used to like to pose nude in front of a mirror and ocassionally dance. As I progressed through high school I was told that my dreams to become an exotic dancer were "gay pipe dreams". (that pun was intended) So I went on with my life from job to job never being satisfied until now. I work for our County by day and by night I am "Paco, Bringer of the Enchilada" at our local strip club. It's completely fulfilling to me.
The moral is, do what you feel you were intended to do and things will fall into place. |
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Shiney
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 1:03 pm | |
| And the winner of THE most F****d up Heart Of Metal Personality goes to......
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Eyesore
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:45 pm | |
| | spectrefate wrote: | I have a similar situation as Shiney.
As a youth I used to like to pose nude in front of a mirror and ocassionally dance. As I progressed through high school I was told that my dreams to become an exotic dancer were "gay pipe dreams". (that pun was intended) So I went on with my life from job to job never being satisfied until now. I work for our County by day and by night I am "Paco, Bringer of the Enchilada" at our local strip club. It's completely fulfilling to me.
The moral is, do what you feel you were intended to do and things will fall into place. |
        
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Eyesore
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:48 pm | |
| | Shiney wrote: | That is a great book by him....
I'm a big King fan ( I sent him a very rough horror story when I was in 7th grade and he returned the story and a form xerox standard reply letter...BUT on the back he took the time to handwrite that he liked the story idea and thought I should work on it....and he was flattered I took the time to seek out and ask his opinion....
That meant so much to me.... |
Hey, that's pretty cool. I tried to get one short story published once, but it wasn't accepted. I didn't expect it to, as most stories in this publication were artsy-fartsy turds, but I thought the story was cool.
| Quote: | | (I'd like to collaborate on an apocalyptic horror/fantasy poetry project with Eyesore) |
I did a book with a friend once. It was her idea. She wanted to do form poetry; haikus, senryus, and tankas. So I said sure. It was fun. I kind of dig that little book. It's tough to tell a story in under 20 words.
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Shiney
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:52 pm | |
| nah...ours can be total free form...abstract madness....
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 2:54 pm | |
| | Shiney wrote: | | nah...ours can be total free form...abstract madness.... |
Oooo I want to do a chapter! |
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Eyesore
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Smindas
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:53 pm | |
| I read it, it was interesting. I don't think anyone on the board would deny that you have a good way with words. You're eloquent, elaborative and clear, which is probably the most important aspect. In this sort of situation, I suppose the only thing you can do is think about whatever gets you motivated the most. I can understand where you're coming from, I'm a bit like you when it comes to doing things ("Oh that'd make a great drawing. I'll do that... later.") but I think in my case it's laziness rather than disinterest. I'm young, I don't need to make decisions yet (that is a lie). At the very least, if you go in to something like musical journalism, which I get the impression you enjoy, you'll be fusing two passions.
Then again, I have no life experience so my advice is probably somewhat unhelpful. Just out of curiosity, what do you do as a profession?
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:18 pm | |
| | I actually read all that,and as I was reading I was thinking"Eyesore would be a great writer".Thats before I got to the part where you made that obvious .Anyway,I say go for it.You definitely have talent for a reason.Just use what God gave ya Bro. |
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:21 pm | |
| In the words of Emperor Palpatine......"Do it!!"
Maybe you can help me finish my Star Trek short story that I've been stuck on for 6 years!
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Thu Dec 20, 2007 9:25 am | |
| | Shiney wrote: | | And the winner of THE most F****d up Heart Of Metal Personality goes to...... |
yeah i agree its weird
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Eyesore
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Thu Dec 20, 2007 5:55 pm | |
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:07 pm | |
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Smindas
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Thu Dec 20, 2007 6:31 pm | |
| I thought the first piece was great. It was mysterious and yet, it made a lot of sense. The linking between the protagonist's father and the old man in the house acts as a good device to tie things together, in what would otherwise be sort of a sudden change of topic. However, that sudden change also does well to envoke a sense of 'steam of consciousness', in that the human mind tends to dart. In short, I liked it. It was well written and kept my attention. I particularly like your narrative and descriptive style.
Similarly, the second piece seems to pull the reader through keeping them in the dark, but offering little snippets (like Grayden seeing the lights). It's definitely made me curious to find out what happens next. Again, well written though I find it a bit 'doom and gloom' and points, but it does work and was probably what you were going for. Again, a very cool piece.
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Eyesore
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:03 pm | |
| | Smindas wrote: | | I thought the first piece was great. It was mysterious and yet, it made a lot of sense. The linking between the protagonist's father and the old man in the house acts as a good device to tie things together, in what would otherwise be sort of a sudden change of topic. However, that sudden change also does well to envoke a sense of 'steam of consciousness', in that the human mind tends to dart. In short, I liked it. It was well written and kept my attention. I particularly like your narrative and descriptive style. |
Right on. Thanks! Not sure if it's obvious, but the old man and my father are meant to be the same person. The first part I view him not much like my father, which is how I actually viewed him at that point in time. The first part is entirely true, every bit of it. That whole scene happened years ago. I mean, my father was actually proud of that tent. I was baffled. And this was like September. I expected him to die that winter. In fact, I expected him to die countless times, sometimes wished it. There's another book in that whole history. Haha.
I think maybe he'd finally hit rock bottom. A scary thought, when you think about the things he'd been through previous to that, and it was quite yet the bottom! Crazy. But he pulled himself up and has since been on the best stretch of road since I was 12 years old (I'm 32 now). He's fat now, so clearly not doing heroin every day, and that's good. I can't say he's completely clean, though he may be, and says he is (it's just a story I've heard a million times before), but he doesn't look like death walking anymore. And we even go fishing now. Something I never thought would happen again.
But when I wrote that second half of that short story, he was still homeless (unless you call a tent a home). So it's kind of crazy that all those words in the second half that once weren't true now are completely true. Again, every bit of it. Strange, but good.
| Quote: | | Similarly, the second piece seems to pull the reader through keeping them in the dark, but offering little snippets (like Grayden seeing the lights). It's definitely made me curious to find out what happens next. Again, well written though I find it a bit 'doom and gloom' and points, but it does work and was probably what you were going for. Again, a very cool piece. |
Thanks, again! Unfortunately nothing happens next, that's all there will ever be. But I like the character names, and I've included them in my book, but none of the rest survived. =)
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Thu Dec 20, 2007 7:06 pm | |
| Somehow I feel I should've clicked that the old man and your father were one and the same. You did imply it heavily. Cheers for the insight.
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:20 pm | |
| Eyesore, in the famous words of Peter Griffin, "That was freakin' sweet!", I wish I had that kind of way with words but no such luck.
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Eyesore
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Sat Jan 26, 2008 1:34 am | |
| A little bump. I've been trying my hand at writing more and more short stories over the past year. The one I posted above is one I think is really cool, mainly because the fictional part came true. Anyway, I updated that story a bit last year (what you see above) because some of it was a little...meh. I submitted it for inclusion in a publication that does microfiction around here. It was declined. Haha.
So for the past six months I've been trying to come up with a solid grasp on short fiction. I've just submitted a new story called A Woman With Blue Eyes. It's pretty hard to condense a story in 500 words, but I actually think the story above is better than some of the stuff I've read in this publication. I mean, some of the "stories" manage to not tell a story at all. Maybe I'm not pretentious enough to get it, I don't know. For instance, here's a story that made the edition I didn't make:
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I used to call her My oh my because she was the girl that braided her hair with yours and she was the one that woke up in the morning with grass stains on her ankles and dew on her shoulders.
In high school she came up to me and grabbed me by the arm. We walked up the stairs that led to the fourth floor and sat on a bench next to the darkroom. I looked at the long row of lockers and how its locks seemed so pleased being together. She pulled up my sleeve and bit me ’til it left a mark. She left me a scent of giggles and a note on my skin saying: “Now you’ll remember me.”
I walked around for five days with a bruise that had the backside of a rainbow and screams of My oh my. I’ve never been so angry before.
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I just don't get it. Haha. And that's not even one I'd say was bad. Some are just horrible. That's just the only sample online. Anyway, we'll see if my latest gets denied. Once I find out, I'll post the story here.
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Tall Tyrion
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:12 am | |
| This is some good stuff, brother.
On that first piece, I think the reason it was rejected may have been that stylistically, it read as a non-fiction piece, like an article for a magazine. I'll agree that it was better than the sample piece that got printed, but they might have rejected it because it simply was not the style they were looking for. It's not always a statement that "this" is better than "that", if you catch my meaning.
Regardless, I liked it, and I did get that both parts were about the same guy. Very good character study, and cool that he came through it and your prediction came true. 
The second piece was also good. Yes, a bit purple in spots, but anytime you "hook" a reader into wanting to know what comes next, you have done a good job. I wanted to know what those lights were as well. |
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Eyesore
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| | Subject: Re: The Stephen King Epiphany & Other Stories Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:22 pm | |
| | Tall Tyrion wrote: | This is some good stuff, brother.
On that first piece, I think the reason it was rejected may have been that stylistically, it read as a non-fiction piece, like an article for a magazine. I'll agree that it was better than the sample piece that got printed, but they might have rejected it because it simply was not the style they were looking for. It's not always a statement that "this" is better than "that", if you catch my meaning. |
Thanks. Yeah, I agree it doesn't mean it's bad if it got denied, but hey...it might be bad. I'm not incapable of writing some turds. I have a lot of poems that are in published books that I now consider turds. Haha. This publication (Quick Fiction) seems geared toward style rather than substance, I think. They seem interested in how the words look rather than what they say. At least that's what I get from reading the two issues I have.
But I'm determined now. It only comes out twice a year, so I've got plenty of time to come up with things to submit.
| Quote: | | The second piece was also good. Yes, a bit purple in spots, but anytime you "hook" a reader into wanting to know what comes next, you have done a good job. I wanted to know what those lights were as well. |
Well, the real story does start on those islands, though they do have a better name than the Isles of Eternal Solitude. Haha. I think when I wrote that up, those lights were to be boats. I think I was envisioning something of an island sanctuary kept hidden by magic and that magic was breaking down, or being broken down. I don't know. Something like that.
I've just penned—with a pen, no less; man, that hurt my fingers—a rough outline of a short story last night. A horror piece. I have ideas written down everywhere, and have even completed some, but most are just patchy thoughts. This one will be the first short story I've done in a long time, I think. I really like the idea. I'll post it here when I finish.
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