Random Jottings Thru Out the Day

Thursday, June 12, 2008
4:56 PM

Thoughts for a story: Speaker’s Intentions and Receiver’s Interpretations do NOT coincide. Disconnect. Because Action/words/behavior do not support speaker’s/do-er’s intentions or....maybe the Interpreter MIS-interprets because things in THEIR personal life affect their interpretation. Hmm…

5:28pm Left house to train (Muay Thai)

Back to writing 10:00pm-ish Listening to Lenny Kravitz’s Mama Said 1991 album on CD of which I borrowed from the library

Passing judgment on certain types of people. Pretentious snooty elitist snobbish types

High brow vs. low brow- how about: mid brow!

Character: Middle class, Average Joe sensibility and mass appeal, but with an artistic creative intellectual’s quirks and eccentricities.
Socially adaptable… eclectic, diverse. Worldly, multicultural.



Writer’s dilemma: Spending most of your time writing about life rather than actually experiencing it for yourself or should we rather live life without much reflection on the past-- your own and that of others. Also NOT seeing other perspectives, points of view, NOT imagining…

How about? Find that middle ground between Living Life and Writing “about “ life.


Beginning
Establish character(s): past and current situation
Plot, Setting, description, feelings, themes arise, relationships/conflicts with other characters, with self, with setting, with ideology, with the reader?
(Ocean) Swell Building…

Middle
Choices made, consequences dealt out, (Ocean) Wave Breaking

End: twist? (Ocean) Water Rolls back out to sea
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Coming to terms with YOU. If you’re a tease, accept that you are tease and maneuver thru life as such.

If you’re spaz. Be the best spaz you can be!

Now there is a JOURNEY to self-realization, to becoming CONCSCIOUS of your personality traits. And a JOURNEY to OWNING them, to MANAGING them.
Make THAT into a story!
ok sleep now to wake up early for "dawn patrol" (that's surf speak for an early morning surf session).

Aloha! (means "hello," "goodbye," "I love you" and other things!)