Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Thu, Jul 30 2015
Real aliens, not real, though still pretty real for a writer
It's challenging to concentrate on writing when you're in a building that is having its roof torn off and replaced. I've tried to mentally catapult myself into a science fiction thriller with aliens trying to break in from above, but these workers are so disciplined and they move in tandem so well that, as aliens, they'd be the leading battle dancers of their world. They use a compressor for power tools, which could be imagined as some very noisy anti-matter gravity converter for a device for stealing power. They take precisely-timed breaks, which lead to me imagine aggressively dancing aliens working on union scale, hopefully not a "sliding" scale since they are, after all, perched on a sloped roof.
I'm having a bit of fun here, mostly because humor is a way to cope with all the noise this week. It does remind me that writers are never really off-duty. Every real-life situation holds promise as a flight into the realm of story and characters. These hard-working roofers will probably never know that they once worked a few shifts as beings from another world.
posted at: 13:28 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
It's challenging to concentrate on writing when you're in a building that is having its roof torn off and replaced. I've tried to mentally catapult myself into a science fiction thriller with aliens trying to break in from above, but these workers are so disciplined and they move in tandem so well that, as aliens, they'd be the leading battle dancers of their world. They use a compressor for power tools, which could be imagined as some very noisy anti-matter gravity converter for a device for stealing power. They take precisely-timed breaks, which lead to me imagine aggressively dancing aliens working on union scale, hopefully not a "sliding" scale since they are, after all, perched on a sloped roof.
I'm having a bit of fun here, mostly because humor is a way to cope with all the noise this week. It does remind me that writers are never really off-duty. Every real-life situation holds promise as a flight into the realm of story and characters. These hard-working roofers will probably never know that they once worked a few shifts as beings from another world.
posted at: 13:28 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
