Always have multiple options; Start with a romance but not in public in
case there are erotic scenes that make you blush; Try the epic fantasy next; When the fights and characters start to
vaguely remind you of other books you’ve read, switch to a historical
fiction; Don’t giggle out loud at the
silly moments because other people will
look at you like you’re crazy; Don’t
forget to blink; When you pause to use
the bathroom don’t dog ear the page;
Don’t listen to music with ear buds on because you’ll forget other
people are around you and make embarrassing noises; If someone interrupts you smile and nod until
they leave, never remembering what they even said because your mind was still
on the book; Don’t keep track of where
you started, that only encourages you to brag later about how fast you
read; Turn the pages slowly so you don’t
accidentally rip them; Keep track of the time not because you are worried about
waking up on time tomorrow but because you know if you’re too tired tomorrow
you’ll be too tired to read more; When your eyes start to burn remember to
blink and consider closing the book for the night as soon as you reach a good
stopping point; Use some eye drops, 2
drops per eye; Read one more
chapter; Look up at the clock to check
the time; Read one more chapter; Check the time again; Read just one more chapter; Grab your alarm and reset your alarm to wake
you up one hour later; Read another
chapter; Stifle a yawn; Read one more chapter; Check your alarm; When you realize you can’t push it back any
more if you want to be on time tomorrow, sigh;
Eye your book like it’s a piece of meat and you a starving animal; Read one more chapter; Don’t look at your alarm before you close the
book; Turn out the light; Lay there;
Tell yourself that thinking about the book will help you fall to sleep
faster; Don’t get up and turn back on
the light so you can read more; Go to
sleep; Dream the next chapter.
We were assigned for our first short story in my Fiction writing class to write a How to story. This is just one of four that I ended up writing. This isn't the one I will be turning in but it's fun and I like it so I'm sharing it here. :) Enjoy.
~T
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Pollyanna
Floating
clouds
carry
aloft
Dreams,
stories…
rounded
and soft.
Take
a gamble,
pull
one down.
Create
the movie
Build
the sound.
Carefree
boys and girls
Demanding
sugar.
snap
that shot
Beautiful
buggers
tossing
stones
and
birds take flight
Soaring
free
and
awakens in fright
the
cornered owl
comfy
in a hollow
Dreams
in dark And light
To
transform the fallow.
We were assigned to write a poem that describes ourselves without using any pronouns. I really like this poem. :)
~T
A-Zenith
Almighty is the word of thee
Because without is hard to see
Casting shadows upon the page
Dangling forms rotting in a cage
Elevated there from dismay
Failings; leaving all on display
Generic lies of men
Holding thin
Ignoring cries of anguish
Justice left to famish
Keening those who are
Lost to the depths, far
Marred by slimy tongues
Never to fill their lungs
Open to disease and death
People forgetting with stale breath
Quick to dismiss the unpleasant
Remembering is left dormant
Sickly minds flail to survive
Tending to dull knives
Under mattresses and waistbands
Vagrants hone wastelands
Weeping at their own hollow
Xanthic wanderers burrow
Yearning for a
Zenith.
This is an absidarian poem I was assigned to write for my class. I like it but it's a little off. At the end of the semester we are supposed to turn in a chapp book of our revised poems. I might revise this one for the chapp book.
~T
Update: Not a poem
I am taking a Poetry Writing class this semester and so I will be posting my poems I have written for class and maybe some I have just written on my own. I'm very excited about this semester since I have this class and also have a Fiction Writing class. I might decide to post some of my short stories I write for my Fiction Writing class on this blog as well. Enjoy!
~T
~T
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