Connie's Corner

Good grief...

I was just reading a blog on another site about tongue tattoos. I thought only some horses had those. Eeck..that must hurt. Believe it or not, there were pictures and some were very pretty and artistic looking...not for me. This is probably old hat and I am behind the times...but I wonder where they'll be getting them next?

I got a cute movie for Jim from the library, Marley and Me, but the disc quit playing three-quarters of the way through. I cleaned it but it did not help, so I returned it, explained what had happened, and put another one on hold, which we picked up this morning. Guess what? It must be the same disc, because it stopped playing in the same spot. Jim says I should break this one so they can't give it to anyone else. Maybe, or maybe not, I don't want to have to pay for a movie that I haven't even watched, but they really should not keep circulating a bad disc!

I have been doing two of the things listed at the top of my blog that are supposed to help the imagination, the visual journal and the think like an artist. The second one has turned out to be the more interesting one. It works almost like the daily flash prompts. I cut pictures out of magazines that seem interesting, then with my eyes closed, select three or four and try to make up a story about them, just writing, no editing. Some of the stories are ?half-baked? but some could be developed. The pictures sometimes determine the genre so it has helped me in writing out of my comfort zone. Good practice, anyway, and definitely imagination building. I go for the unusual and strange pictures.

Our current assignment in my cache class is character development. I didn't realize it, but I always go for plot first, character second, so I am having some problems. I wonder how many wirters develop their characters first? I'm going to have to think up a plot first, then write my character profile. Otherwise, it's brick wall time.

until next time....c