crossposted – a thousand and one tales
I’m trying to learn how to write on the fly. None of this is pre-conceived or pre-meditated, I want to see how far I can push a story without stopping to build the characters, or to plot out a proper tale. So I’m writing and developing the story real time.
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One.
He has the stupidest grin on his face, a face damaged by a life of pain, hardship and toil. A face weathered and leathery like the discarded hide of a long dead mountain goat. He displays a mis-shapen set of teeth whose ugliness is magnified by the fact that there are only six of them left, the last two hidden so far in the recesses of his mouth that he has the appearance of an overgrown rabbit gnawing at the remnants of a once hopeful life.
He is unbelievably happy. A stranger had handed him a coin with a crane on it. That meant his miserable existence was made better by the previously unimaginable amount of five hundred shillings. His mind whirled with infinite possibilities. He owned his little fiefdom, he was the king of his kraal. Life, friend, was a sum of joy, beauty, hope and an endless supply of food.
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Miss Cheri on October 22nd, 2008
I’m here.
Here
Miss Cheri’s last blog post..For the girls
Miss Cheri on October 22nd, 2008
Shya, this thing even says your last post…kamanyiro.
anywa…I won the socks…these ones had grown so old.
Miss Cheri’s last blog post..For the girls
Sybella on October 22nd, 2008
why the merry-go-round of posts… are you trying to assure us about you having two blogs?!
banange cheri, where have you been?! i missed you
Miss Cheri on October 22nd, 2008
Oh Sybella, I missed u too. I have been here.
I’ll be back as soon as I’m done with things of school.
Miss Cheri’s last blog post..For the girls
Teti on October 23rd, 2008
Could do with some editing this one.
The style is a bit much. Heavy on the description.
Teti’s last blog post..The Rationale of Self-interest
Teti on October 23rd, 2008
Banange! Must it attach a love heart? Why not something cooler? Like, I dunno…a star, maybe?
Or a crown?
Teti’s last blog post..The Rationale of Self-interest
Solomon King on October 23rd, 2008
@Miss Cheri, good to see you here, and yeah, it shows your posts, anti us geeks pose like that.
@Sybella, not really, I’m just as confused as you are.
@Teti, yeah, a little rough on the edges, that’s what you get from writing on the fly. It’ll improve with time. Working on the heart thing, it breaks my macho-hood too.
Mr. B2B... on October 23rd, 2008
@Cheri
what’s been up chic?
those things of class mbu can also take your time away from you…
@SoloKing
seriously
i thought you had already conjured this up…
Mr. B2B…’s last blog post..preciate-ap