Description vs. Dialogue

So when we got this weeks topic. I was a bit huffed. I was a little surprised by it. I had showed someone what I had written and they had said good description but where is the dialogue. I was like I can't do that I don't know how the person was like if you can write a face book post you can do it.

My issue is I can tell you the story but can't tell you the story. I can tell you what's going on but not in how the characters is suppose to do it.  So there that is my dilemma .

Ok I was not gonna post but since I had time I between cooking four birds I said why the hell not.

What are your issues with dialogue and description.

Problems and solutions

Morning can I call it a good morning we will see. So when our fearless leader posted this weeks topic I was like ok but I don't have the time to write because I will be resting and cooking AT&T he same time..yeah yeah I know the two don't fit so sue me. For those of you hip who know me know I have kids and I normally cook for the school holidays. Well this year I lonely have to cook for two schools yeah cause the oldest is in college but that does not mean it is an easy tasks. So hence my issue of cooking and writing this post.

So after hobbling around on a bum hip all day Monday gathering and not trying to kill shoppers I have all the stuff I needed for today's meal . I was like let me put the side of beef ribs in the oven timer it and take a nap. So my ass has been up since four cooking I will tell you the rest of what I am cooking at the end.

So now I figured what the hell let me get this over with before Adkins sic Alan on me. I swear them two are just ugh slave drivers. As you can see problem one done .

Now problem two how in the blue blazes I am going to get all theis damn food over to a school on a bum hip hence problem number two and no I ain't got a damn clue. But I am as resourceful as Mcguyver and I will find a way to get said viddles there.

I am as independent asthma comes with certain things in my life. I am not a person big on asking for help. I would rather  give you my help and what have not then to ask for it. I am trying to learn how to deal with that problem. But folks it is hard for me to ask for help. I am just use to doing things on my own. I know those of you who hold that special "family" place in my heart that I know if I needed you all would be there in some shape form or fashion. But I still can't ask y'all to come, I will get there but it will take cause I know we all need a little help once in a while.

Ok enough of this emotional sappy shit. How the fuck am I going to get: two long bans of beef ribs, turkey wings, chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes and cake to my kids school?
Any ideas folks?

So what and how have you learned to deal with problems and issues when they run smack dab into your life?

Where do you write

So this week Adkins let Alan pick the topic. Where do you write, what type of music and where do I find my muse.

Ha ha I write where ever I can wether I am at home, on the subway in the kids school or in the hospital. It's not always the same place when I write. 

Music I mean I have enough music on my iTunes to keep me happy from show tunes to hardcore rap( I know me liking rap who would have thunk it ). Music helps me create and relax as I write.

I am not sure if I have a muse I mean looking at folks in NYC in various settings do help I mean I have seen folks having public sex on the subway, a homeless woman who used an abandoned store as her toilet to hot sexy gay men kissing. It depends on what I see that creates the imagination flowing. 

But the best place for me is sitting in my kitchen looking out of my window on either a clear NYC night watching the planes land at LGA or in the wee hours of the morning watching the sunrise and clear away the morning haze across the sky.

So where do you all like to go sit and write and what inspire you.

Why I write.

Why do I write is the question of the day...when I saw that I was like huh too damn broad of a topic. But hey when in Rome...

So why do I write to keep my sanity and to see I I can still be as creative as I once was. I use to be very prolific.  When I wrote I before I  had children it was my way to relax wether it was short stories, poems or novellas.

Once my friends found out I liked to write I was their go to girl for papers, reports or the " Dear Jane" break up letters. Lol I thought me writing break up letters. 

But after my car accident things changed as in I had the stories but I just could not put it to paper. The very first thing I wrote was years after my accident it was a poem for National Domestic Violence Month. 

I still have the stories in my messed but brain I have been working on one for three years.i have it all planned out but getting it on paper is not easy for me.  I know I am moving slow but it will get done. 

When I write now I write for my sanity. To create characters, places and situations to help me relax from the stress of parenting and dealing with the ignant folks I deal with. 

I know my task master ( I will not mention his name) is wondering on my progress I will send him stuff soon. 

I wrote two poems recently and will have a friend look them over to see if they can use them. 

So as I stated writing is relaxing at times and slow going. 

Well now you know my thoughts on writing. 

What are your thoughts.

Halloween Memories

When our ringleader Mr.Adkins gave us the topic Halloween Memories. I was like WTH I have no childhood Halloween memories. He was like you got kids and I am like ummm I don't do Halloween. I don't like ducking gunfire.

So I was talking to a friend and then I remember that about thirteen years ago I went to the wedding of two friends who are wiccians and their wedding was on All Hallows' Eve.  It was a nice fall evinced in Suburban Atlanta. I was good friends with the groom cause we worked for the same company.and the previous year I had spent my vacation with him and his finance at the time. 

It was a wonderful wedding and yes I wore a dress and no I am not sharing the photos. It was a mask erase wedding but after five formal. It was fun and they had Halloween candy and candied apples it was wonderful. So yes that is they only Halloween memory I have.

I want to wish everyone a wonderful and haunting Halloween.

Halloween Horror Movies

Morning

Normally our lovely host Jeff gives up fun and interesting topics to write about for our little group. But nooooo this week he turned it over to a man*Kage Alan* who just loves torturing folks. Sorry Red he's been hanging out with you too long. To give us this weeks topic name five Halloween movies that scare us into cardiac arrest.

Well here are my five and why.

1. Alfred Hitchcock "Psyco" the original with Anthony Perkins and Janet Leigh. For this one it was one it was filmed in black and white. Anthony's portrayal of hotel keeper Norman Bates, he made you want to care for Norman. He made Norman likable. But it was his mother who made you feel sorry for him and yet she made him do that murder to that poor girl in the shower. See that shower scene is what made me not only stop taking showers but I was taking bubble baths for a long time. It was the psychological spin the put on the murder and how it was captured on film. After watching that no out of the way no name motels for me give me big chain hotels anytime.
2. Stephen Kings "The Shining" staring Jack Nicholson, Shelly Duvall and Scatman Scruthers. The readon why this movie is number one cause I always read the book on Halloween so that gets my mind going and then watching the movie does not help because then it has me looking to see if I see the twin girls or if I am going to see Jack and have him say " heeeers Johnny". But it is the way it was written and then the lodge where it is set and located made me not want to do a B&B in the winter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No not me never 
3. The next movie that creeps me out is" The Serpent and the Rainbow" I know the book was based on a true story but to know that they can actually make zombies and the some how control a person from miles away made very very nervous and wary of folks from the island of Haiti. The acting was wonderful. But even knowing folks who have family members who practice voodoo makes nervous now. Creepy movie I tell you.
4. The next one is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. I mean friends taking. Backwoods drive in the country when their car breaks down and them I stead of getting help at a local farm they are picked off one, by one but a chainsaw wheeling mentally deranged dick. Hello you never go to the apply hose asking for help cause you gonna die!!!!! Dummies but it was the fact that leather face keep the bodies as trophies.. But the thing that got me was the one lone survivor had loaded up the car with her friends dead bodies and drove down the lane like it was all good. The crazy witch was smiling can you say one for a room a Creedmore. This movie has me not liking taking country drives at nite or on roads where I can be the next Lifetime movie of the week. Who wants to be a damn Lifetime movie of the week not I . 
5. My last movie is not a horror movie but it is a tradition none the less. I love watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show. Between the music and the camping acting I love it. Then doing the time warp...who could not love watching this movie. 

So now you know my five favorite movies ..so what are yours. Trust me there is nothing like popcorn, drinks and a stun gun to help you get thru the first four. Happy Halloween .
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Life's learning moments.

Greeting and Salutations one and all.

So when the question was posted on our fair group page what have I learned recently or in life. What can I say I have learned a few things.

I have learned that you cannot please everyone no matter how hard you try. Even with the best intentions of your heart it is not possible. 

That it is not a sign of weakness to ask for help even though ou feel you don't need it. We all need help in life no matter the problem or issue. 

Family is not always about blood but it is about the folks who have been there when you needed them the most and when they have needed you. 

The most important lesson I have learned is that to truly someone else you have to love and respect one self. Without loving one self how can you love someone else.  

So on that not I say later .

Mo