Searching for conspiracists to spread the word
To make sure the world knows the truths
Of mysteries and magic, of history and the future, of the real and the surreal
Rascals and damsels, princesses and princes, paupers and millionaires
You up for the challenge? All you need to join is to pick up a book and read.
Determined to go to bed sooner
Enabling a more refreshing start to the week
Fumbling through the stuff that had to be done
Everything taking so much more time to do
And some of it didn’t work out at all
Then the clock read 2 a.m. and he had to admit…
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Believing in one’s ability to control the machine, the button is pressed
Observing the fallacy of that confidence as the droid fails to do what was desired
Though in the end, the comradery and lessons learned far outweighed the disappointment
STEM encapsulates an ever beating heart and a spirit that will rise from the ashes of failure
Given how much it meant to her, this failure left her soul feeling heavy
Reason told her this time wasn’t any different then the million times before
And she knew she should let go of that emotional weight
Vanity wouldn’t let that happen, though
It kept her rooted firmly on the ground
That pressure to beat Sisyphus by pushing up her metaphorical boulder
Yielded the same result. She never left her personal black hole
Stay put and don’t move.
That was what the sign meant.
Of course I challenged that box society tried to put me in.
Policeman didn’t agree with my public protest and gave me a ticket for my failure to…
The darkness grabbed onto his words and crumpled them into tight rejected wads of failure. He typed with such a frenzy to keep ahead of the monster, but it was faster than his imagination, consuming all his ideas and dreams. It then had the nerve to regurgitate its partially digested remains onto the page.
He tried to rearrange the mess into something that hinted at his intentions, but he was not a forensic investigator. The work seemed dead. And to think he thought he was a writer.
He consoled himself. “Well, it’s a start.” He saved his work and shut down.
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Focused on the goal of winning it all
Alison forgot about her competition
It was near the end of the race and she was by herself
Letting her guard down she started to think about the finish line
Usually she didn’t have this luxury, but all that hard training was paying off
Ready to celebrate she slowed down and lifted her arms victoriously
Everyone gasped as Stacy burst past, leaving Alison stunned and in second
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To console failure we use the t word
Really the truth was summed up in Star Wars
Yoda said there is only do or do not
So I have fallen behind in my NaNoWriMo count. I didn’t get to work on it yesterday, and today I was frantic because of other commitments and only did 400 words or so today. Now I can consider this a failure, or I can look at the positive that I was able to outline the middle portion of my novel, or act two in script speak. Actually it is the later half of act two. I knew where my protagonist needed to go, but I was having troubles getting him there. I worked on it for a good couple of hours and solved most of the major plot points to get him from where he is now to where he needs to go to get to acts three. So I ask again, was it a failure to not meet the word quota, or was it a success that I have a good direction to head out tomorrow? I claim it is unknown until I start writing more this week. If I can chip away at the word count I am behind, then it is worth it. If not, then it was a failure. Failure is always an option, but I am hoping with this stutter step and some better outlining I can build on it into a triumph, but that is for future me to decide.
ps Can you tell I’m writing this after 1 am local time? Yeah, I am tired. 🙂
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