Mary and Max is a film in Claymation
that has touched my heart in so many ways. Its messages and themes are
many, multifaceted, and multi layered. To name just a few: True
friendship. The universal aspects of humanity. Not fitting in and
wanting to change yourself. Not fitting in and not wanting to change.
The hap hazards of life. How people affect and effect each other.
Aspergers. Depression. Self confidence.
In a nutshell, Adam Elliot’s writing is
perfection, each word so carefully chosen, so right. Elliot’s words
bring explanation and offer understanding to those things, both spoken
and unspoken, in life which can’t be explained with words. In this
relation there is
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This next post about personal blogging ties right in with Earth
Month. (Yay! A whole month! It’s about time.) How does personal
blogging tie in with Earth Month? Because the man who prompted this
article has dedicated his life to a better Earth.
Glenn Fay from Love Earth Always, has just revamped
his entire website. It is, in a word, phenomenal. I love it to
pieces. It is professional, easy to navigate, is filled with pertinent
information and content that is important to everyone in the world.
Yes, it’s about our environment, and Glenn has constructed a site that
helps all of us help ourselves and each other, one step at a time.
Part of Glenn’s mission is to add a personal flare. One of the ways
he does this is by the inclusion of a personal blog that is Green
centered. Question is, how do you write a personal blog, include
personal information, and keep your and your friends’ and family’s
privacy at the same time? Glen e-mailed me the following in hope that I
could help:
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Well it is another day and another forgotten memory, the same thoughts I
have every morning for as long as I can remember. I realized after the
many years I spent trying to fit in, trying to be everything to
everyone; I can never remember the fine details. Only remembering that
things never turn out quite the way I thought they should. I get
frustrated when I attempt to conjure these lost memories as I look at
the crinkles on my forehead making me look old. My trial and error
moments equal forgotten memories.
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There are varying theories when it comes to stream of consciousness
writing as far as what constitutes stream of consciousness, what works,
what doesn’t. As I have recently witnessed in a writers group I
administer, this topic could cause quite a stir and a heated debate. In
fact one could say that this topic is significantly close to politics,
if you will. Simply imagine a room full of leftist, right wingers, and
liberals; each with their own opinions, arguments, and firm beliefs.
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I used to be terrified of dialogue. I’d write it, sure, but I can
honestly say that I more often than not scrapped it. dialogue was the
thing that stopped me from finishing any stories. Partly because the
dialogue process just stopped the flow.
Another reason was because, like most
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Strange lady doctor. Did not look like one. (Doctor I mean, she
didn't look like one.) We were in her apartment maybe? Darkish hair. Not
too long. Contemporary casual dress. Hair pulled back sort of,
sometimes. Lived alone. Glasses? House not too clean, not too not. Had
notebook or something she was holding and a pen or a pencil. I was
reading before she came into the room and I saw an apostrophe on the
page move, like a mite, or apostrophe looking bug, go right off the
page.
This is what I’m remembering. But it’s happening too. The apostrophe
was on the word “it’s”, second line from the bottom. It just...
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The best excersize for writers is to simply write. This holds true
when writing our dreams. Write as if it’s not a dream, but as though
your dream was something that really happened.
Easier said than done, yes, I know this; we have the tendancy as I mentioned in the second article in this dream series Dreams Make the Best Stories?,
we are too caught up in thinking of our dreams as being just
that—dreams. There is an unequivical match, however, between picking
out objects and moments in dreams for the sake of analysis and retelling
our dreams, drawing out the details that make our dreams the awesome
stories that they are.
If we can separate ourselves from this traditional way of thinking, and instead…
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Part 3 Dream Series for Writers
So here it is, your dream, in your mind, you’ve woken up by the
alarm. It (the dream) is slipping away. There is no time to think
about it, to hold onto it. In fact you may not even remember that you
have dreamed as the alarm has blown all chance of recollection. Sad
indeed. Though nothing lost, because what you don’t know you had you’ll
never miss or think to look for.
The fact is, however, that no matter what you may think, you do dream
every night. There are many stages of dreams as well… the getting to
sleep dreams (sometimes noted by the feeling of falling, or your body
jumping, both of these actions waking you up a bit); the R.E.M. dreams,
the longest dreams, though not necessarily the most detailed dreams,
these are the dreams in which you can fly…
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Part two of Dream Series for writers.
Dreams make the best stories. From snapshot moments to the fantastical.
Bring them to life...The topic, dreams. The situation, to transfer those dreams into story form.
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