Hey what's up?

I finally got back in the saddle and wrote four hundred and ninety two words today.  I worked on my novel set in the fantasy world of Eoc.  The halfling, Boober Ap Grumbley turned into a field mouse to travel secretly with a band of evil elven minstrels. 

I think I'm gonna start posting about the world of Eoc.  It'll help me sort stuff out in my head.

Create Peace and Forgive it Back.
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Posted by darrincoe at 7:00 PM MDT

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Silent Lucidity
by D.F.Coe

Moonlight brightens the morning day
Anticipation awakens
Falling asleep, visions of dancing
growing hunger
Maintaining a calm, awaiting the night
in which the mind becomes numb
Our bodies meet like waves on the shore
to all but the simplest of stimuli
in violence there is poetry
Instinctual behavior pre-programmed in training
The two become one in silent lucidity

Posted by darrincoe at 4:58 PM MDT

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Mood:  chillin'

When you write you must be both self aware and other-aware; a student of the human condition.  Many writers would make great philosophers.  You ever notice how it's always the little things that create relational destruction?

For instance, I hate having stuff touch the bottom of my feet so when the floors not swept all the time I get upset at my wife or kids.  It's really not a big deal and a very small thing but I, at times, let it grow big and turn into a big "stinky butt". 

In writing when you're developing a relationship between characters remember the little things: the stuff people that annoys each other; the stuff people do that charm one another; the things like voice inflection that drives someone crazy -- my oldest son has a way of saying things that makes my nerves raw but he doesn't even know he's doing it sometimes.

We all need to lighten up in our relationships.  So what if the counter's not wiped off ever second of the day and who cares if there's stuff in the middle of the living room?

Remember, you fell in love with someone, got in a relationship with someone, married someone, chose to live with someone because of who they are (unless it's a purely sexual thing), and not for who you would turn them into.  If there's someone in your life and you're trying to "make" them behave a certain way or do it your way -- stop.  If it's not working now it's not gonna ever work and you'll just create resentment and drive them away.

Be nice and treat each other like roommates and note someone you own, because you don't.  Unrealistic expectations and believing you have a "right" to certain behaviors will generally always kill a relationship unless it's so horribly abusive that one person is beaten into submission and can never leave or get out.

Anyway, watch the little things in life, it'll make your writing richer.

rock the world and keep writing
Darrin Coe

Don't forge to check out my short story "the mithril scale" at: http://www.aburt.com/ifiction/stories/76/

you can also hang with me at myspace

Posted by darrincoe at 10:18 AM MDT

Updated: Saturday, 5 August 2006 10:21 AM MDT

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So greetings,

So why do I want to write a novel and everytime I hit about forty thousand words I lose motivation?

I don't understand why I'd rather stay up and type in this blog instead of working on my novel?

Why do I find all types of critical writing errors and stylistic errors in the manuscripts of others but can't see them myself?

Well, I"m at sort of a transition place in my novel and I'm stuggling with to many viewpoints and to many main characters which is why I'm having a hard time sitting down and writing.  So I think I'll do what Stephen King did when he wrote the stand and kill off some characters.

This blog takes little to no serious creative brainpower -- just an opinion and enough cognizance to type it down so it's just plain easier than being creative at the novel level.

We're all works in progress and it's easier to see in others those things you continue to struggle with.  In psychology is call "projection".  I struggle with passive writing, I struggle with maintaining consistent viewpoint in my stories, and I struggle with to many adverbs, and clauses.

I just don't write precise enough, so I'm working on it and critiqueing helps me. 

Rock on and keep writing
Darrin F. Coe

Posted by darrincoe at 5:16 PM MDT

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Mood:  a-ok

Every writer must learn to accept outside and independent critiques.  To that end there are any number of places on the web: workshops, writers groups, forums; which will provide these for you.

I have found one place that beats them all if you write fantasy, horror, or scifi and that is "critters".

Critters is a massive membership(free) organization that guarantees you a number of critiques for every work you submit a long as you are providing regular and timely critiques for others.

I'm am convinced the three most important things a writer can do to improve their work are to: read massive quantities; write always; and critique the work of others.

I also believe every writer should be familiar with "strunk and white's elements of style".  Pick it up if you don't have it.

So get to critiquing and being critiqued and visit critters at http://www.critters.org/

rock on and keep writing
Darrin Coe

Posted by darrincoe at 12:08 AM MDT

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Mood:  incredulous

ok, ok, maybe I grew up and spent to much time in the midwest -- north dakota and minnesota -- but I'm convinced this freakin' country is going totally soft.

we want the government to do everything for us:  cities have to protect us from heat; states have to protect us from storm; the federal government has to protect us from killing ourselves because we CHOOSE not to wear seat belt.

we put our money into the lowest common denominator; our populace is lazy and selfish, and all anyone seems to think about is what they have a right to have.

My grandparent, my parents, nor I ever worried about if the city was going to check on us when the temperature soared to a hundred degrees with hundred percent humidity.  My grandparents were out in the field in hundred degree temperatures.  But now, oh my goodness, we have a national heat crisis because less than a thousand people have died due to heat. 

people have died from heat, snow, wind, rain, water, and fire, time out of hand.  I will die from something and you will die from something and it will be very sad for those around us but please, welcome to reality -- none of us are immortal, we die. 

my question is are you prepared to die?  Do you take personal responsibility for your behavior?  are making every effort to live you life with the resource provided you? 

God calls us to a life of personal responsibility, service to him, and to be prepared to die as well as being prepared to live.  That's what the plan of salvation is all about.  Christ died on a cross at calvary so we wouldn't have to worry about death, dying, or immortality. 

Christ died once for all, and God calls us to believe that Christ was raised from the dead, confess our sins with our mouth, and live in obedience. 

And stop whining.  The government's job is not to protect you from the elements, nor is it to provide you with a job, a car, a computer, and air conditioning.  It's not even their responsibility to provide you with electicity.  Sure it's nice to have but what will you if our economy takes a dive and we revert to an economy like they have in India or Russia or China. 

Get you butt in gear and be accountable for your behavior, stop being so selfish, cut costs, get off the grid, and expect nothing because you got nothing coming and neither do I.

Rock on and keep writing
Darrin F. Coe

Posted by darrincoe at 6:32 PM MDT

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Mood:  not sure

Hail and greetings all ye who love to write,

My name is darrin coe and I want to write.  You see I believe writing rules the world.  Writing is the creative act of a god and when we write we create reality from nothing.  Thus, I wanna write but being a father of two boys, a husband, and a full time employee of the state of colorado, I'm abit frustrated, cuz I don't get to write like I would love to.

And so I've created this blog to at least write my ranting, musings, and frustrations.  Sooner or later there'll be a companion website but I'm really not sure what it'll consist of -- perhaps I'll sell literary widgets.

I've been mildly published, once by nocturnal ooze and once by the horror library and once by myself(self published book of poetry available through AuthorHouse or AuthorFirst or something like that).

I'd like to make abit of money from my writing beyond the fact that I just wanna write and to that end I'm working on a fantasy novel involving multi-racial vampires and magic weilding halflings but in the meantime I'm publishing stuff on iFiction.  You should check them out at iFiction.com

You can also check out my latest Free fiction, by clicking here

well there'll be more to come I'm sure so rock on and keep writing

Darrin F. Coe

Posted by darrincoe at 12:26 PM MDT

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