I finished about 8,700 words into my writing tonight. That does not include this post, which will put it over 9,000 words. But I asked myself tonight what that really meant. To me, it means ability to push myself to keep writing, even when I would rather do other things. Trust me, I am a big NHL fan. Not just hockey (Go Seattle T-Birds), but the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are special to me.
Especially tonight when the Canucks attempt to stave off history. They were up 3-0 in the seven game series, lost the next three, and are fighting off the lowly defending champion Blackhawks. BTW - if you are Blackhawks fan, you must hate your team. Big Buff was a great player your GM traded away for a few rental players and some unknown rookies. Not good.
That is nonsense and vaudeville but I have to tell you, it pulls me away to want to watch that rather than write. But I sat at the bar with my IPad2 and chose writing as my outlet. If that's what I want to do, it needs to be what I do the most. It doesn't matter whether I want to screw off with friends, I need to think first and foremost about writing. It doesn't mean I can't do specific things with my time, but writing needs to be the central focus.
Tonight I drafted a short story that was pretty good. Lately, I've been in a science fiction mood, especially for dystrophia. Have no explanation for it but that I've just found my focus there. When I write something, a million more separate ideas on the same subject get compounded together as different stories. I put them as lines in my IPad2 Notepad feature and then utilize them whenever I need a new story to write. Not all of these stories are going to be winners, as I am sure that an NBA player doesn't hit every practice shot they hit. But if you don't work on it, you don't improve.
I used to avoid Dystophia stories about futuristic land because I thought that it made my writing negative. But I started to embrace it as a way to separate myself by making some type of enjoyment coming out of this type of story. There is no reason to believe that the human species would exist in a dystophia if there were no entertainment involved. Why people live in Detroit? I have no clue, but I hear its getting close to seeing an entire decay of a city. They lose 500,000 people per year and have only about three or four years to go before the entire city should be entirely empty. There won't be drug dealers or criminals, because they have to have someone to sell to or someone to rob.
Always interesting to believe in a ghost city.
Well, I've done enough tonight. Thanks to my new bluetooth keyboard, I don't have the arm aches that I had previous when typing. Yes, as my friends tell me, I should be hired to sell Apple's new IPad2. I'm just that much of an advocate of it.
Showing posts with label ghosts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ghosts. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Plot of a bad ghost story
I was thinking about really bad ghost stories I have either read or watched (movie or tv form).
They all have the same people in them.
a. people who refuse to walk away from equity - The house is haunted, they won't leave. Dude, seriously, burn the place to the ground, collect the insurance, and then don't worry about the ghost in the bed sheet.
b. weird old person who knows what's going on, won't tell anyone until the last half of the movie - this bugs me in the sense that they should know better. They should want you out of the place, whatever, and should attempt to pull an intervention immediately. The only time this wasn't the case was in Friday the 13th (which is really a ghost story, if you think about it). The old lady says immediately that the girl they are looking for is dead, that they will be too if they stick around. Still a horrible horror ghost movie, but at least it did something different.
c. creepy ghosts - never a ghost that just says, "hi, I'm charlie, how are you?" but they always want to frighten the hell out of the occupants.
d. some type of devil ritual, curse or plague that happened on the land of the house - really? after so much time, no one thought they might as well just bring a backhoe over the place and destroy it for the insurance.
Again, I think pretty logically, which doesn't work with ghost stories. Here is a ghost story movie which scared me when I was a kid... It's called "Burnt Offerings" and no, it isn't about the promise of social security being undermined by Congress.
They all have the same people in them.
a. people who refuse to walk away from equity - The house is haunted, they won't leave. Dude, seriously, burn the place to the ground, collect the insurance, and then don't worry about the ghost in the bed sheet.
b. weird old person who knows what's going on, won't tell anyone until the last half of the movie - this bugs me in the sense that they should know better. They should want you out of the place, whatever, and should attempt to pull an intervention immediately. The only time this wasn't the case was in Friday the 13th (which is really a ghost story, if you think about it). The old lady says immediately that the girl they are looking for is dead, that they will be too if they stick around. Still a horrible horror ghost movie, but at least it did something different.
c. creepy ghosts - never a ghost that just says, "hi, I'm charlie, how are you?" but they always want to frighten the hell out of the occupants.
d. some type of devil ritual, curse or plague that happened on the land of the house - really? after so much time, no one thought they might as well just bring a backhoe over the place and destroy it for the insurance.
Again, I think pretty logically, which doesn't work with ghost stories. Here is a ghost story movie which scared me when I was a kid... It's called "Burnt Offerings" and no, it isn't about the promise of social security being undermined by Congress.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Ghosts, Bobby Lou and the Vancouver Canucks run at Lord Stanley
I've been thinking about ghosts lately.
I had a weird experience last year which may offer that ghosts are real. At least, I believe they could be.
Every night, I place my wallet on the little table next to my bed. It stays there all night, I wake up, it is there, I put it my pocket.
Around November, I woke up one morning and it was not there. I searched everywhere for it. Trust me, if you lose credit cards, photo ID, etc., you will search everywhere for it. And I do have a clean apartment. Unable to find the wallet, I canceled my credit cards, got a new photo ID (meaning I was driving without a license to get there), and went through the entire process.
A full week later, I woke up to find my original wallet sitting at the table. Next to my old one.
No, I did not hear a faint child's laughter as I woke or hear a door slam. But still, here are the explanations I have for this occurrence:
a.) There is a ghost which likes to steal wallets.
b.) I have an intruder which steals my wallet (but steals nothing else).
c.) I suffer from parasomnia (a real disorder).
The answer may be c.
When I was young, I stayed over at my grandmother's house and went to bed around 8 p.m. My grandmother, who enjoyed staying up late, said that I came out of my room at 11 p.m., said something to her, then unscrewed all of the cable wires in the television, before going back inside my room to sleep. Are there a lot of sufferers of parasomnia who are experiencing items missing, who do not know that they have it? Each individual case stands on its own.
I know that this object haunts Vancouver Canuck fans more than any other. Even though I have lived in the region my entire life and love watching hockey, the Canucks do not broadcast their majority of their games down into the Puget Sound area (unless it is Saturday night at the CBC). But that doesn't mean I don't follow how much Lord Stanley's Cup haunts the Canucks.
In 1982, the Canucks were swept by the NY Islanders in 4 games and did not return to the playoffs for 10 years.
In 1994, the Canucks came up against the NY Rangers, losing a best of seven series and the cup. Perhaps it is New York and not the cup which haunts them.
In 2009 & 2010, the Chicago Blackhawks have knocked out the Canucks in the playoffs, which means ghosts from the past are in the head of Vancouver.
Anyway, the reasoning for this little ghost side note is that the Canucks are playing tonight against the Blackhawks. Ryan Kesler is a stud and if Bobby Lou can keep it together (see last year as reasons why he may not, even though he was the first tender since Montreal's Bill Durnan to be a captain), then the curse of the Cup may be lifted.
But that's the thing about ghosts and Stanley Cup runs. At the end of the day, the explanation doesn't always fit expectations.
I had a weird experience last year which may offer that ghosts are real. At least, I believe they could be.
Every night, I place my wallet on the little table next to my bed. It stays there all night, I wake up, it is there, I put it my pocket.
Around November, I woke up one morning and it was not there. I searched everywhere for it. Trust me, if you lose credit cards, photo ID, etc., you will search everywhere for it. And I do have a clean apartment. Unable to find the wallet, I canceled my credit cards, got a new photo ID (meaning I was driving without a license to get there), and went through the entire process.
A full week later, I woke up to find my original wallet sitting at the table. Next to my old one.
No, I did not hear a faint child's laughter as I woke or hear a door slam. But still, here are the explanations I have for this occurrence:
a.) There is a ghost which likes to steal wallets.
b.) I have an intruder which steals my wallet (but steals nothing else).
c.) I suffer from parasomnia (a real disorder).
The answer may be c.
When I was young, I stayed over at my grandmother's house and went to bed around 8 p.m. My grandmother, who enjoyed staying up late, said that I came out of my room at 11 p.m., said something to her, then unscrewed all of the cable wires in the television, before going back inside my room to sleep. Are there a lot of sufferers of parasomnia who are experiencing items missing, who do not know that they have it? Each individual case stands on its own.
In 1982, the Canucks were swept by the NY Islanders in 4 games and did not return to the playoffs for 10 years.
In 1994, the Canucks came up against the NY Rangers, losing a best of seven series and the cup. Perhaps it is New York and not the cup which haunts them.
In 2009 & 2010, the Chicago Blackhawks have knocked out the Canucks in the playoffs, which means ghosts from the past are in the head of Vancouver.
Anyway, the reasoning for this little ghost side note is that the Canucks are playing tonight against the Blackhawks. Ryan Kesler is a stud and if Bobby Lou can keep it together (see last year as reasons why he may not, even though he was the first tender since Montreal's Bill Durnan to be a captain), then the curse of the Cup may be lifted.
But that's the thing about ghosts and Stanley Cup runs. At the end of the day, the explanation doesn't always fit expectations.
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