ChristopherWrites
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Content Aspirations
I don't want to write just great sentences, I want immortal ones. Words that leap off the pages and into reader’s imaginations. Stories that live on after the last page has turned. My aspiration, as a content creator on vocal, for 2024 is to produce more content. I’ve dozens of stories to tell, with about thirty or forty always on the backburner, on low on the stove. They’re waiting to be written. Stephen King said something to the equivalent of great stories are the ones that you come back to. The ones that curl up with you in bed and pose the lingering questions. What happens next and to who? You let them run around in the yard and open the door for them at dusk. They’re the ones that greet you in the morning when you wake. I understand what he meant, and in a way it’s a great measurement. The longevity test is whether or not a story can hold your interest after leaving it for awhile and putting it on the shelf. Anyway, I digress. I really like the picture with the crisp blackboard and the words etched in chalk. They remind me of the daunting task of overcoming the block with the realization that it’s possible.There’s no suffix. No two little letters standing in the way or outsourcing the productivity of my mind to negative rationalizations. They remind me to do and to think in terms of action. It's too easy sometimes to let those two little letters box and coral, to limit and determine. In the picture there is only what is possible, let’s not worry about the rest. In time, I hope to be able to publish backburner stories, because they all pass the longevity test. To get them as prim and polished as I want them to be. That is one thing I will work towards in 2024. I’m going to explore as many genres as possible. If I had written a todo list I suppose it would go something like this: 1) Write to your heart’s content. There seems to be fewer hours in the day than I have to capture the words that take flight with the wind and I chase with the butterfly net of my pen. I try to get them all down, but I find myself encumbered by things such as work and sleep. There are times when I push myself, and there are times when I don't go further. I’m dancing on the razor’s edge of determination and my own limits. Finding a balance between the two is an artform in and of itself. There is much to do and much that remains to be done. Sometimes I wish there were more time, or that I had better usage of the time I already have. A goal in 2024 is to keep writing and putting out content. I will try to write a little everyday. Vocal.com will provide a platform from which to accomplish this. The vocal challenges are always instrumental in honing skills. They provide a bullseye to aim at. I hope to increase my readership and subscribers. To finish what I started and and to go beyond that. I’ll have to look back in 2025 to see how it went, but for now hello 2024.
By ChristopherWrites2 years ago in 01
The Silent Swell
We stare in opposite directions at the peir, like ships passing in the middle of the night. There might as well be oceans between us, rather than a small bench. If you listen closely you may hear a cawing crow amidst the whistling breeze. My eyes follow its meadering across the sky with my jaw clenched shut. Occasionally, I'll sense her move on her edge. I'll hear the rustle of her jean jacket, and sense the turning of her head. Neither of us wants to be first to break the silence. In the silence there is tranquility. Neither of us wants to tip-toe into the waters of conversation. She's icy to my touch. I won't budge, and she won't either.
By ChristopherWrites2 years ago in Fiction
Dr. Strangelove
The first story I ever wrote was a story about a boy named Jason Parker. It was a handwritten work of fiction unlike anything I had done previously. Normally, my overly active twelve or so year old mind would've probably done something else. We were between video game consoles at the time, so I didn't have hours to kill upping my K/D ratio. This was before the dawn of kill streaks and attack dogs, and prior to the age of supply drops.
By ChristopherWrites2 years ago in Writers
It's Good To Have You Back
Daniel Craig gives a steller performance in his final outing on her majesty's secret service as Fleming's James Bond. While vacationing in Italy, Bond's world is turned upside down. Now years later, Bond must uncover the truth about the woman he loves as her secrets come back to haunt them.
By ChristopherWrites2 years ago in Critique
It Belongs In A Museum
In his third, but not final outing as the titular Harry "Indiana" Jones, Harrison Ford returns as the whip-cracking, globe-trotting adventurer who must find the silver chalice. Directed by Steven Spielburg, it's every bit as fun as Raiders of the lost ark if not a bit long for its runtime.
By ChristopherWrites2 years ago in Critique
Cowabunga Dude!
Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo are back in a retro, blast-from-the-past claymation styled coming of age story. With the voice talents of Jackie chan, Seth Rogan, John Cena, and Ice Cube the turtles are out to stop a Superfly from taking over the city and wreaking havoc on human beings.
By ChristopherWrites2 years ago in Critique
Yes, my Dad was
This is perhaps the most important piece I'll write today. So important, that I'd procrastinate until the last four hours to write the darn thing. But if I procrastinate, if I hesitated at all, it's because it was just THAT important. This is supposed to be an essay. You know that thing in college you write with a thesis, a paragraph, a body, and a conclusion? Somewhere along the way, I turned into a diary, and emotion seeped into the grammatical sinews.
By ChristopherWrites3 years ago in Confessions
Night of the Twelve Pirates
They raised a toast in celebration. “Let the meeting of the thirteen pirates commence. Blythe Alister, Everard Kendal, Archibald Yao, Lindsey Zelgius , Chevalier Le Port, Wendell Pinnock, Baron Colby, Elston Thorndike, yours truly, Sterling Thatcher, Stanton Prince, Ann Voss, and Linford Spalding.”
By ChristopherWrites3 years ago in Fiction
