My Thoughts: February 22, 2007 – Fate, Coincidence, and Just Plain Luck

As I see it, there are three major things in life that seem to have a great effect on us. In an instant, these forces can change our lives drastically, sometimes for good, and sometimes for bad. We could be thinking one thing one moment, and the next, have completely different thoughts. These forces can cause great happiness and end deep sorrow, yet they can also destroy hope and bring depression upon one. They guide the way our life unfolds before us, and occasionally add unexpected turns and twists. This uneven path can bring difficulties and fortunes along.

What are these forces?

Story Prompt: My Story

The administrator of the writing club, Magic Pens, that I am in, created a story prompt to motivate us to write. Basically, we were at a meeting and read some of our stories on stage in front of everybody. Afterwards, our stories came alive and started attacking us. He wrote about where each person was afterwards and what state they were in, and I have matched them up in my story pretty well. We each had our own versions of what happened, and here is mine…

I nervously began to walk up the few stairs of the stage clenching my story within my hands. Walking to the small podium that was erected before the audience of Magic Penians, I felt a timid shake overcome me for a second. I had never actually read my story before an actual audience before, yet I was ready for the new challenge. I gave a faint, weak smile before reading the first few words of my rewrite. “Running through the early morning moistness of the Mathurin Forest that enveloped her quaint home in obscuration, a young girl of ten brushed through the rough branches that tore at her soft-featured face.” After a few minutes of reading my Horse from the Woods story, I began to feel more confident as I began to twitch less often and become more steady and fluent with my words. Before I knew it, I was leaving the stage with applause from the crowd and taking my seat in the first row.

Absence?

I apologize ahead of time if I am absent this week for my internet is currently being finicky and our internet providers called to tell us that they are coming to fix it this Thursday. I am currently typing with a wireless internet connection called Donkey that is not my own. Perhaps one of my neighbors’…*shifty eyes* Well this connection is deathly slow and unreliable causing it to be a hassle to come on-line and it seems to stop connecting abruptly and unexpectedly. I may or may not be absent from my blog this week, however I promise that I will be typing on Microsoft Word and will try to post all of my writings when I get my internet connection back. Sorry to disappoint anybody. lol

Meeting Overview: February 19, 2007

We had a meager crowd at our Magic Pens meeting, Monday, February 19, 2007 at Main Street Books at 1:00 PM, but we did get a few good points across. Here is a thorough overview in case you missed the meeting or need a little refresher.

Story Idea #3

Write your explanation why Lindsey was not there in my story, How was this Possible? or write your “ending” to the story.

Check Up: February 18, 2007

Alright, due to the immense amount of babysitting and homework that I had along with my temproary suspension from my computer, I have once again had a low week. On Magic Pens this week from February 11 to February 17, 2007, I wrote 4,539 and 404 words on paper. This comes to be 4,943 words. I promise that this upcoming week will be a better one. For reading, I once again failed. I read the first 20 pages of Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier. Once again, I promise that my next week will be much better than this one for I have deeply disappointed myself. My lack of writing has been disturbing me. *twitch*

Story Idea #2

Write your “ending” to my open-ended story, Matt’s Contest 01 – Sly Lynx.

Story Idea #1

Okay, I have thought of this idea that whenever I think of a short story idea that has many possibilites, I will post it here and anybody can join in on it. There are no prizes and it isn’t a contest, but it could be fun and it could possibly get some people writing. If I get any people asking me to continue a story that I have already finished, I will probably add that here.

Write your “ending” to my open-ended story, Lost in this Word.

Matt’s Contest 01: Sly Lynx

This is my attempt at Matt’s Contest 01, including the bonus no-vowel sentence.

Where was I?

Suddenly, I came to and repeatedly blinked my eyes, clearing my mind of the thick fog that hazed over my thoughts. I shook my head as my eyes slowly adjusted to the dim light that the moon gave from overhead. There was a crisp nip in the air that made me shiver in my cold, metal armor, yet I stood tall and still as I had been trained to. The night sky was painted deep blue with stars littering the sky alongside the moon, emitting the vague sliver of silver light spilling across the grass upon which I stood.

Check Up: February 11, 2007

Word counts for me seem to change just as the tides in the ocean do. There are highs and there are lows that come in gradual and sometimes sudden waves. This week from February 4 to February 10, 2007, is one of my “low tides” with 1,946 words on Magic Pens and 111 words on paper to equal a total of 2,057 words. This week I have had a lot of homework every day and I had to babysit. When I did have time to write, I used it to think of an idea for Matt’s contest, but unfortuantely, couldn’t think of anything. I hope that next week will be a much better week for me! For reading, I once again replaced reading-time to think of idea’s for Matt’s contest and have only read 69 pages of The River by Gary Paulsen and finished up Romeo and Juliet.