Sorry about the punctuation (lack of); I used up all my characters. This 140 character story is for Kat Myrman’s Twittering Tales. The photo is courtesy of Kat.
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I love ghosts movements towards quieter atmosphere ๐๐
Heres my attempt
Thank you!
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Now I will be careful not be in alone in quieter premises:).
http://ideasolsi65.blogspot.com/2017/07/marshall-inn.html
Good idea ๐
With the things that are going in the real world the Ghost will be singing Helen Reddy’s Leave me alone. (Ironically Reddy herself says it when asked to perform it.)
It must be hard being a ghost when people pay so little attention to you. The real virtual world is so much more interesting.
I agree..forget about the dead, people ignore the living.
That is a very sad but very true statement.
It was your post that brought those memories..and I shaped them into words. But this challenge is difficult because of character limit.. I often end up with Senryu/Haiku or a poem..
That’s good! For twitter length prompts, the haiku is perfect.
But it makes me wonder.. Can we push it? I know you can but sadly creativity is not an ever flowing steam..
Why not? What makes you hold back? If you imagine a poem rather than a bit of prose, surely that’s the way to go.
I wrote a free verse for this prompt.. But I don’t think it will ever be so easy.. I wondered if the restrain is better or worst for a writer. For me the challenge is simplification..
For me too. Cutting back to the bare essentials is hard.
But you can’t compromise can you? I mean the restrain does that, so does freedom.. And so I said that it’s not an ever flowing steam, it’s not perennial..
I’m not sure I understand what you mean by ‘restrain’. Compromise is what we do if we want other people to understand what we’ve written. A stream of consciousness approach can be very exclusive.
Your latest post night description is an apt example of restrain, according to me.. The restrain is the tendency of a writer to not over simplify or make it overly difficult for the readers to understand it’s work. Compromise may or may not follow restrain..
You mean like not taking so much out of the phrase that nobody but the poet knows what it means? Making the reader guess what it’s all about? I hate that. It’s so navel gazing.
No, it means not losing the core element of expression with fancier or less suitable words.. Compromise is than to choose what fits the bill..
I see. Restraining from gilding the lily and drowning the essential in flourishes.
Yep, I like that about your writing.. As you follow the same principle.. At least as a reader I feel it..
I’m glad you don’t find the writing florid ๐
Anything but that.. Keep shining..
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I love what you did here. I always feel sad for ghosts. Trapped here but unable to participate with the living. If there were a hell, that would be it. ๐
Thanks Kat ๐ I somehow can’t see ghosts adapting to our totally absorbed 24/24 way of life. Who’d even notice them? Too glued to our phones.
We hardly notice each other. I have to agree! ๐
And we only ever believe what we’ve seen on FB ๐
Sad but true! ๐
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