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Writing Practice, 100 words with prompt

purse, theatre, travesty.

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This is my entry: Criminal

Rain plunked a heavy song upon the roofs of parked cars. A large drop caught the bridge of Jane’s nose leaving a cold trail to her lips. Her tongue darted out remembering the taste of snowflakes as a child.

She made a beeline for a silent marquee. The windows of the centuries old theater were boarded over, graffiti splattered the marble walls. Her fingers trembled as she dug into her purse for the gun. A swastika monopolized her vision.

“Justice is but a travesty,” she muttered pressing cold steel to her temple.

Her blood washed away in the rain.

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Writing through the Chaos of Life

The world is full of angst, turmoil, political or religious standings, and worst of all hatred. We can’t even blame our time for this, as it’s

 been this way since the dawn of man, we just weren’t there to bear witness – you get it, I know. 

The only difference is that in this time, we are bombarded by hundreds of channels crying out for attention. Every news feed on the internet screaming click me, click me, and every person with a point of view telling their version of current events.  

 

Then there are those of us who just want to write. To bring laughter, or take a reader away to a new world, a world that may be in turmoil too but you know it will end well. To give life to lovers and grand ideas, or invent amazing places. 

You don’t have to completely shut off what may be important to you in current events, only perhaps for a few hours at a time. Let your creativity guide you and give you peace, even for a little while. Don’t forget people still go out dancing, eat at restaurants, watch movies, so you want to write – write.  

Take every freedom you have and do what you love. 

Happy writing folks, Theresa

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Grammar and the Greats #blog

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Grammar does not come easily to us all. I just want to write, get the story out of head and onto the page. Then the grammar police slash, dash, and crash my party. It has been too many years since I left grade school behind and sadly I did not practice writing. I have forgotten too many rules.

So, I’ve come up with this blog idea today just to let any other grammarphobes out there know not to give up. Keep plugging away, and you just might be famous one day. Here are a few famous people who wrote as they pleased and tossed grammar to the wind.

Mind you, you’d have to be a damn amazing writer to pull these off.

Samuel Beckett  – no punctuation. Murphy (1938) Molloy (1951) Malone Dies (1951) The Unnamable (1953) Waiting for Godot (1953) Watt (1953) Endgame (1957) Krapp’s Last Tape (1958)

Marcel Proust  – run on sentences – one of which was apparently 601 words long. Best known for his 3000 page masterpiece: Remembrance of Things Past or In Search of Lost Time

William Faulkner – lack of punctuation The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light In August (1932), The Unvanquished (1938), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936)

Cormac McCarthy – who only believes in periods, capitals and the occasional comma. The Road. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West. All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1) No Country for Old Men (Vintage International) Cities of the Plain (Everyman’s Library) The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, Book 2) Child of God.

James Joyce –  stream of consciousness writing Ulysses (1922), A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939). Dubliners: An Illustrated Edition With Annotations.

E.E. Cummings – abandoned conventional syntax American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems; two autobiographical novels; four plays and several essays.

Jane Austen – Double negatives Sense and Sensibility (1811) Pride and Prejudice (1813) Mansfield Park (1814) Emma (1815) Northanger Abbey (1818, posthumous) Persuasion (1818, posthumous) Lady Susan

Charles Dickens – Run-on sentences The Pickwick Papers. Oliver Twist. Nicholas Nickleby. A Christmas Carol. David Copperfield. Bleak House. Little Dorrit. A Tale of Two Cities.

L. Mencken – Incomplete sentences George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1907)The Gist of Nietzsche (1910) What You Ought to Know about your Baby (Ghostwriter for Leonard K. Hirshberg) (1910) Men versus the Man:

William Shakespeare –  Ending a sentence (or independent clause) with a preposition Macbeth Hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Othello. The Tempest The Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing King Lear

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The subjunctive/passive voice Sherlock Holmes Novels and more

Of course, I’m not saying be haphazard and slapdash yourself into obscurity. Perhaps write to your heart’s content and get a fabulous editor that won’t hate you. Learn, practice, grow and be happy writing.
Theresa Jacobs.