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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

To Juggle the Prose and Make It Milky

Trifecta this week gives us the word 'juggle'...

And the 100-Word Challenge prompt is 'milky'...

The two together have given rise to this little concoction: 


     I often don't realize I'm hungry until I start eating. The moment the first bite passes my lips, I'm suddenly ravenous. Lately, something similar happens with writing. I get the first few sentences out, and suddenly there are several different stories I want to tell: anecdotes from my life, related facts from recent random research, all manner of potential fictions... Writing coherently requires me to juggle these disparate strains of thought. When it works, the product has a nourishing, milky consistency – narrator present but unobtrusive, salient fact blended smoothly with palatable fiction. When it doesn’t work, it’s oil and water….  


10 comments:

  1. This is brilliant. I feel like alot of my work is oil and water like.

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  2. Great combination of the two prompts (: This is definitely a milky piece haha

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  3. That happens to me too -- but usually it takes a lot more than the first few sentences! Great feeling, though.

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  4. The oil and water stuff is frustrating...but it's worth it for the times we are rewarded with the milky stuff!

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  5. indeed - when it doesn't work - oil and water. :) well done

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  6. Like a bit of a journal entry. Mine are often oil and water!

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  7. What a great way to incorporate both prompts -- and so true of many writers, I think.

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  8. Excellent piece of writing-loved the smooth texture:-)And yes,it definitely feels that way-glad you put it in words for the rest of us.

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  9. You said it well. Who doesn't enjoy that creamy center of goodness when it all works? Sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't, but we keep at it until eventually we get it right more often than not. Nicely done.

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  10. oh, you went back to the narrative and added the new prompt - nice tiering strategy!

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