#WritersCoffeeClub Why are you writing your current work?
Because I've learned family truths I need to process and writing does that, and because I want to be on the journey with other people in the same pickle, and because some folks need to hear descendants of white supremacists say, "My ancestors were perpetrators," and because slavery to convict leasing to mass incarceration is real. IOW, because it matters today.
Loving My Hateful Ancestors: A Public Witness
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqcz0cd5uqepnz4xp3kdtsgewxnw07a3q228efjh9xdf5plcgpptnq9gl4s8 nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq5wtkkf7yxmea8g4mstwjlu4hsm40luj6f65m99hqjyjh7nes8eqsh70qap nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq8dncu9slv96dpur55y9206llqrvyuvlfekygp44mg0cr76qjhp7s8hva03 That makes sense about using your writing to react to events. My attraction to this weird novella--what's been happening to me is absurd and chaotic, so the logical/rational series might be a stretch right now.
I'm going to have to be more aware of the seasons, and whether my impulses change. Yours sounds so complementary.
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqlnjdsthc7ftud8qjn3ffxvaxzlscp9n3dl38qwdmt0czj4e7ry6q3cyz3p Ah, so true. The weird/random one, in particular. And much easier to polish/edit than to generate new content for the 2nd in the series, at least for me right now. Thank you for that insight.
The biggest upset my 75-yr-old forever SEC husband says he has ever seen in any sport during his lifetime.
#Alabama #Vanderbilt
nostr:npub1hze77ym6st0l8k0j9j3p9kgtejk0n6vphts7afuszdlend02shusqz3jt3 Thank you. Trauma into art. ❤️
#WritersCoffeeClub Is there any work of fiction you could have written better?
About 7 out of 10 audio books we listen to while traveling. I'm afflicted with the need to edit them in my head as we listen. Line edits. Plot signaling. Character development. Word repetition within 8 words of each other. Would I ever tell you which books they were? No. This is a private affliction where I'm just fixing something that gets on my nerves.
Back to work today shutting down this family home. Last night, we cousins gathered round the dining room table, eating takeout with plastic forks that came with the delivery. We were exhausted. We who once had to sit at the kids' table are old. The house is almost empty. We laughed and displayed our quirky natures, which have only grown as we aged. Earlier, trying to work together, we got on each others' nerves terribly. We've been together forever, and we love each other dearly.
#Family
If you don't believe me:
"The rats are eating our marijuana; they're all high"
#NewOrleans
Hell, yes, that's an incomplete pass!
If I knew how to do one of those polls, I'd do one:
Inside out
or
Outside wrongwards?
It is so hard for me to transition from one place to another. But once I arrive, I want to stay there forever.
#Memphis
Today, I went to a less esthetically pleasing pool, but it's a standard 25 yards rather than the NOACC 20 yards. It's like stretching out after being cramped into a box. No kicking again-I"m still uncertain about my lower back. But I can swim the 25 yards in one breath with no kicking. Which I started so I wouldn't have to twist to breath (back concern again). But now it's become a fun breath exercise.
#swimming #swimmer #swim
Day 3. Today I didn't use my legs at all. No kicking. Just on my back. Then a weird as hell American crawl without kicking. But I could do the length of the pool in one breath that half-assed way. So I was good with it.
#swimming #NOLA #NewOrleans
So we're walking down the street after dinner at Vyonne and pass another couple, older than us, and the man gives us the thumbs up. The woman says, "Good looking couple." And my husband sys, "We're a hit with the over 80 crowd." Which I found so funny. Because it was true.
#New Orleans #NOLA
We held our Contemplative Writing in Action workshop today. I'm sitting with it, honestly. It's still soft inside of me and words almost seem to harden it, trying to categorize and classify, pin down and label. Like if I hold off describing it, the primary experience will remain the ineffable experience itself, not what I call it. But I want to breathe out and share the awe. So this is me exhaling.
#Writing #WritingPrompts #AmWriting #WritingWorkshops #contemplative #WritingCommunity
nostr:npub1ddm47hh2yz0jgne4tdpm8fk36ywk7kyx2f3suyqjewkj96cq07mqucdxa6 We came by several times! Rats! Bought books from y'all. Not HSK, but he is an example--my husband was like he's funny as hell, but I"m not sure I can take an entire book about that subject.
#WritingWonders Places tourists should avoid?
Y'all keep talking about tourists, like Jackson is overrun with water-bottle toting assholes gawking at statues. If you count paralegal school, I've been here three years, and only tourists I've ever seen were when the Civil Rights Museum opened. But that dried up. That's why we need Mississippi ex rel.--no one's running down here throwing $ at us. It's like my Dad says: you gotta take care of your own little self.
Karol In the Name of Mississippi
#WritingWonders What part of your world would you recommend to tourists?
The problem, of course, is that tourism of Civil Rights sites can too easily, for us White folks, become voyeurism. The point is not just to see but to be. To stand convicted by what has gone before me. To listen for how I can wrench that past into a better future. I recommend a visit, but not one lightly entered into.
IN THE NAME OF MISSISSIPPI, an upmarket legal thriller named Finalist in the Killer Nashville contest
My favorite prompt from this morning was in the 10 minute warm up exercises:
* write about your favorite costume, "costume" being an actual costume such as from Mardi Gras, or any outfit you don for the effect it signals (i.d., the black suit that gets you through funerals)
* now pick a person—your mother or aunt or oldest son—and put the costume on them
I made that one up, and it was a hit!
#WritingPrompt #Writing #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #WritingGroup