Posts tagged with “notes” and “molasses”
August 28
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Turn the page.
Time trading was done through falsified papers and changed names like freedom and citizenship is traded in police states. And time holders, the scientists, could be bribed, so in the end those with time to spare had more time to gain. (Swap Meet notes)
And in his deep deep cynicism he questioned everyone else, knew nothing, and spoke it. He is a vessel. A vesself for the baby blue. He sings, he plays, and wants nothing more. Watch him. Listen. To him get pissed at you, even while everything’s all right. Pissed at everyone else thinking its not all right and ignoring the dark things which are just fine too. (On Dylan)
What does anybody know? We know nothing. And to prove and accept that, you must have someone or something break down, one by one, all the things we think we know and take for granted. Kim knows nothing, including what family means, which we take for granted, for it means nothing too.
“Why do you love America, Milos, when its people have just come up with new ways of saying and doing the same things as any other people in any other time?” said Kim.
“Live simply and life will be simple. Fear is only of the unknown. It is a fog, that is all,” he said to Milos. “What do you fear finding here?” (Molasses notes)
The man who drew intricate isometric drawings of architectural structures with a shaky hand and a leaky black pen. Still, they took you in. (Character)
State the problem. State your “what if” surrounding your character.
If the problem is bullies: what if an asmatic girl was cornered by the school bully and she broke her inhaler? If the problem is government controlling free will: Clockwork Orange. Absolute pwer and class struggles: Animal Farm. Humans becoming lazy and destroying the playet through megacorporate consumerism: Wall-E.
Set up a Wordpress or Blogger account for the 826 Valencia workshop. Grab headlines, examples of characters, brainstorms. (826 Valencia notes)
What is the artist at the swapmeet?
“I don’t have time to learn.”
“I could never do that.”
Turn it on its head. (Swap Meet notes)
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Her face, it was hard. You could bounce a brick off it. You could try to hammer your treatise onto her forehead, but you’d just hurt your hand and hear the sharp ping of rejected mettle in return. Too bad for her. Wasn’t what she wanted. (Story starter, character)
When he woke up and fought through the haze of drugs, he saw his wife and asked “Are you a ghost? Amanda?” When my friend texted me I responded what an inappropriate “Shaddup faggot.” (Body Parts notes)
This was Kim’s first visit to Romania. His grandfather just told stories to his friends of his visits to America every few years, and the calls, letters, and cards. Kim remembers them weeping while watching the Berlin wall crumble on the couch at his home. Milos is his brother. No, Milos is Phantos’s son? No. What would I say to him if I saw him in the flood? (Molasses notes)
When your time ran out, a relay was sent to the main circuitboard (but only show with wife, allude to with Director), and you were hunted. Sometimes extreme measures were taken. Every second counts. What’s my double-barrel shotgun? Need the quickest hunting/killing method possible. No joy, just a quick shut-down of all systems. Brain versus heart death? Sacking – plastic bagged and epi-pen or electric shock. Magnetized? Implosion? Connection with generators going out? No government mandate on time well spent, just political discussion and trends like now with health, education, global warming, greed and leisure. Everyone arguing amongst themselves on best use of time. You get what you get at birth. Any reason for supplments or detractions? Taxes? Need to bother? Keep the focus on the charcaters. Morris and Sally argue about class struggles and use of time, like me and Matt talking about purpose and time and money. Can it be traded? (Swap Meet notes)
The girl who hung on, then fell off, of Dylan’s car. (Story starter)
We couldn’t leave it to nature any more. We had to take matters into our own hands. (Swap Meet notes)
Sweaters meets a Joan Baez-esque siren or banshee, who all but bursts his eardrums. (Sweaters notes)
Bob Dylan was a deep, deep cynic. (On Dylan)
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August 27
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…the light of the world. Were they folding or unfolding through space or with space, he wondered. And as they flew past and as they cut his face and as they pelted the leather duffel on the ground beside his chair, Chingo pulled the single-shot pistol from his lap and show a one-eighth inch ball of lead deep into the old man’s head. (Chingo notes, morning sketch)
Write from the POV of a blind person.
Write with synaesthesia (story starters, obstructions)
Video input and sound visualization as an interactive story (multimedia)
“Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia”-type opening line.
The iconoclasts
Story about a vivarium shopkeeper who’s battling the creeping ice plants and who meets Alexis the Mexican beauty. (story starter)
Phantos is concerned with health, and is very knowledgable about nutrition, despite his misanthropy. It is his brand of humanism. (Molasses notes)
Big motherfucking belt buckles. (story starter)
A beautiful day. Hot, sunny, and warm. Not the type of day you expect to need a snow shovel. The smell is strong thorugh and by now the dying are dead and what’s left is bodies, not peole. They must find someone alive earlier, and show more relief effort. (Molasses notes)
Lazy bastard. Youth never thinks of anyone except itself. That statement says that it thinks about other youth too, but that’s not what you mean, right? Right.
Glasses and a goatee. You must be a writer, no? A nervous jitter too? You must be a real writer. (random notes)
“John, I need a brain.”
“Oh, don’t put yourself down all the time.”
“No, I mean it. I need an actual brain.” Pause. “In addition to my own.” Pause. “I’m serious.”
“What do you mean you’re serious? You’re a zombie now?”
“It’s for school, stupid.”
“Well, I figured, but why the hell are…. (Brain notes)
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August 14
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August 11
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August 06
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August 04
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July 25
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July 20
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July 16
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July 12
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July 09
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July 02
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