Post Written by DJ Barber
I write every day. Sometimes all I can squeeze out is a mere sentence. Then there are days I might complete a chapter. But I remember there are good days, days where words just drip from the keyboard, words just flow.
Then there are days, much as the current economy, where sure, there’s words a-plenty, but they’re just a jumbled mess with no order and no possible resolution in sight. I could have 10,000 words and couldn’t get 100 of them in any ordered fashion, let alone put together a story.
So it’s two deep breaths–and think about something else completely; a rainy sky, the troll with the bloody mace, the old dwarves singing, drinking, and cursing on a Sat’day night, The steely-eyed detective standing at the edge of an alley, the busty barmaid bringing another round, the silver space ship hurling ‘round the rings of Saturn, the beast lurking at forest’s edge as he watches the small girl‘s approach, the Martian lander setting softly on the White House lawn, the former pug glaring with hostility at the new kid just hired by Big Al, the three-masted schooner smashing against the reef upon a stormy sea, the old lady drawing her last breath surrounded by those she loves.
And after splaying my thoughts around some more that jumble of 10,000 words sometimes coalesces into something I can write down and then read back and it makes some little bit of sense.
Ah, yes! Now those faeries are ready to take up arms and head off to war with the hated pixies!
The woods fall away beneath their flight, air alive with the sounding buzz of the swarm, they sing as they fly; the others woodland creatures, the deer, a startled boar, a chipmunk, all glance skyward, blink at the sight and amble slowly toward meadow and stream, oblivious to the coming tempest.
Aha! Seems I might have today’s one sentence.
DJ Barber writes stories, flash, poems, and novels. He was born in the northeast and lives in the northwest. When not writing he has a wife and two dogs that keep him busy. He has been published online at Every Day Fiction, Moon Drenched Fables, Tales From the Moonlit Path, Big Pulp, Every Day Poets, and Everyday Weirdness.
