Thursday photo prompt Through the snow, through the pixelated mist of our lives, I see him. Writing about him - only the antlers prevent me to say "her" - is another story: precisely. Inspiration is like this vision, looking back at us, shrouded in doubt, shying away from the obvious, a myth. The stag … Continue reading Calling #writephoto #Writerswednesday
Language
Nothing like a five-year old manuscript
I am working on this "draft" (of drafts) again. It says I last worked on it in 2016, the first words go back to 2011, which I find both curious, and almost desperate. The plot is vague, the characters unbelievable, well, not so deep anyway. Yet I find this important, even vital: retracing these … Continue reading Nothing like a five-year old manuscript
Being there, or here? #fivewords
Weekly Writing Prompt #177 leaf, home, alter, light, front There, she knew well, it was her home, her friends, where she'd met him. Here, was another leaf, both of them now almost past the light, an alter-life she did not understand, even feared a little, however familiar she was with the language, the everyday words. … Continue reading Being there, or here? #fivewords
Setting, a Christmas tale #writephoto
Setting It was the time in the evening, when, wherever I may be, whatever the season, I love to wander: when Sol prepares to set, that is when our small globe turns his face away from the star. This was perfect. When you reach my age, a clear sky at dusk, a small cloud … Continue reading Setting, a Christmas tale #writephoto
Away from this stage… #fivewords
Weekly Writing Prompt #153 Away from this stage, is another test - another round, where force plays no role, but the changing face, the soft verses, of an everlasting poem... Photo: Jardins du Luxembourg, Paris, ©2013 Honoré Dupuis
The triangle #fivewords
Weekly Writing Prompt #132 Francis wanted to capture the dream: for the third night, he had read the name of a place he had known, and, now, wanted to build into the story. There were three, at equal distance from each other, the monk had said. The last day, his stare fixed on some old … Continue reading The triangle #fivewords
Without reasons…
He must've known those people, sometime, some year, in the distant past. But whose past? The voices sounded far away, in a language he thought he should remember, the faces in semi darkness, when he knew that - somewhere - it was already daylight (but he could not be completely sure). At last he … Continue reading Without reasons…
Crow #writephoto
Crow We have known each other for a long time. In the garden of the small house, some distance from here, she used to perch in the old tree, just in the corner, and was able to follow my progress in the morning, making coffee, in the kitchen. Often the Crow and I looked … Continue reading Crow #writephoto
Territory #WritersWednesday
The Prompt This was her city, she's lived here all her life, and even before she became the angel she now is, she knew the streets, the people who haunted them, and the sort she could meet, the day people, and the night creatures. She was a little of both, and even now, if you … Continue reading Territory #WritersWednesday
Original tales
“If such things creep quietly and unnoticed into our work, then perhaps that is not plagiarism but homage.”
I was writing late last night and, on re-reading what I had written became aware of an odd juxtaposition of certain words. They took me straight back to a book where a particular passage had left its mark. There was no thought of copying; no intent to re-use or appropriate the work of another writer, and what I had noticed was no more than three words long. Perhaps it was the context rather than the phrase that had been the reminder. Even so, it got me thinking.
With all the words that have been written by the human hand over the millennia, are there any that have been left unsaid? Can we ever write without plagiarising, consciously or unconsciously the work of another who has gone before? I remember reading once that Shakespeare had summarised every human emotion in his work. That is open to debate, of course, and the…
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