Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1184: Should Rest, but Won’t

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

In one of those states where I’m struggling to get things done and I’m really suspecting that NaNoWriMo was a bad idea this year. Such is life; you live, you learn. You also should, instead of continuing on, stop, but apparently I didn’t get that bit of the memo and now I’m continuing on with something that I should stop doing, if only for the fact that I need to rest as I’m growing increasingly tired with the passing days and need to start spending more time resting.

Anyway, I won’t do that for I want to see this to the end. I want to make sure that I get this NaNoWriMo done and then not participate in one again. It’s not that I don’t enjoy doing them, though part of me certainly does not, but rather that I can’t keep stretching myself as thin as I do as it’s causing far too many issues and all that other stuff that isn’t that interesting to ramble on about, though maybe it is important to ramble on about, though probably by someone who is far better at writing than I am for you’d want someone who can better articulate what they’re saying to write about the things that I’m writing about here, and thus what they write comes off as much more effective and less… I don’t know.

There’s a nice day out there and I’m in here, trying to say things about things and I can’t get them said the way that I want to say them, and perhaps that’s a bit of a shame but perhaps that’s also the way things are to be at the moment. Maybe instead of sitting here and waiting until it’s far later in the day than desired I just sat down and got on with things, I’d have a much easier time, but speculating is not what I am planning on doing right now. That said, it’s not so much speculation so much as it is an admission of not doing enough soon enough, and maybe that will change. Maybe over the next few days things will pick up and I’ll be back on track, but I don’t know. What I do know is that I need rest, but right now I don’t want to and probably won’t as there still is quite a bit that I need to do over the next few hours and so I’m gonna keep on punching away and hope that I get it all done within a reasonable amount of time.

I think that in saying all of this I should just get on with the getting on and keep on digging away at what I need to dig away at so as to be able to get more things done. That all said, something something and so on and so forth and that’s the lesson of the day. This is something that I won’t learn but will, and therefore something else, but you get the idea.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:44:11

Some thoughts that probably are worth exploring further mixed in with a bunch of waffling. Business as usual, really.

Written at home.

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Form Among Form

Posted on November 8, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Clouds; they exist.

Okay, so this was taken roughly two months ago. I thought it was a nice cloud formation, hence the photo. I think it was more defined in appearance than what the first image shows, but I can’t remember.

When I was processing this photo I decided to stuff around a bit with it and got the second image as a result. There were a few others, but I feel the second image works the best out of those.

Between these two I feel that whilst the second one brings forth more detail, the first is probably better overall. It’s much more gentle and perhaps vague, or “dreamy”.

This is my submission into the two hundred-and-twenty-fourth Lens-Artists Photo Challenge. The theme for this one is “Exposure“.

The host of the Lens-Artists challenges cycles weekly between the following people:

Week 1 – Tina

Week 2 – Patti

Week 3 – Ann-Christine aka Leya

Week 4 – Amy

Week 5 – John Steiner

Week 6 – Sofia Alves

Week 7 – Anne Sandler

Week 8 – Guest host

This one is hosted by Sofia. Anne hosts the next one.

I recommend participating in the challenges. They’re open enough to allow for a fair bit of thinking about approach and closed enough to keep focus on meeting the theme of each one. If you don’t participate, you should still check out what others of the Lens-Artists community are submitting.

I hope you enjoy.

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Flying to the Top

Posted on November 7, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

One of those lucky shots.

Not the best of photos, but I like it as it’s just a thing that’s happening and it’s probably one of the most mundane things ever, but it’s still really interesting, I think.

I hope you enjoy.

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SeaLifePark: Quiet

Posted on November 6, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

One listen for this one, though with a few restarts early on due to letting myself get distracted.

I was hoping to get some sort of narrative going when I went into this but that idea went out the window. Not sure why, though I suspect it had to do with not being familiar enough with the song.

SeafLifePark’s (aka Sea Life Park; I’m not sure which is correct) “Quiet” is from We Get What You Deserve.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys keep space and gentleness as they move through their melody. Vocals appear with a thick softness. They seem to float and soon are joined by another set of thinner, and perhaps airier vocals.

Bass and percussion keep a steady rhythm the moment they appear; They find themselves sitting easy with the keys and and the vocals and all seems to drift. Light guitar work also comes in in specific places, keeping the gentleness enforced as it also seems to drift along.

There’s a moment of space before the bass and percussion come back and the keys alter slightly. Another brief pause and soon all continue on together. Comfort seems to keep things easy and now things feel more rhythmic in their flow. Eventually there’s another sort of pause and the guitar takes a bit more lead, though it remains in step with everything else.

Slowly and steady the sounds move through their sections and let the vocals move over them, and a sense of the beautiful takes over. Eventually the vocals end and the remaining sounds lock in. The guitar seems to keep low with the bass, only moving away slightly whilst the percussion flickers and builds. The guitar shifts in its sounds and suddenly all grows loud and massive.

This is a release, but this still seems gentle and calm. It’s almost as though emotion is coming forward from being thoroughly within the moment, and it’s loud and wide and perhaps cinematic, but it’s so calm and relaxed and gentle and comforting, and it’s almost reassuring.

The percussion shifts whilst the guitar seems to widen and narrow in sound. The bass holds steady, and soon all reach the final moment. In this moment they choose not to go bigger, but rather stop, and after a percussive roll the sounds trail off and the song ends.

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Linckoln: Gold Coast

Posted on November 5, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

One listen, though with a few restarts a few seconds in. I was trying to get a grip on how the song started and I was going about it the wrong way. When I got starter properly I let go a bit more and it was easy to then move into the below.

I think I was just trying to write something influenced by the music. This sort of gets mood and imagery across, though as always in a rather vague manner. Some of this is quite clunky but I think overall I managed to indicate an idea of the song.

As a side note, “Gold Coast” continues on from “Chicago“. I wonder if this bit of writing would’ve come out differently if I wrote about it immediately after writing after “Chicago”. It probably would have, but I didn’t, so… yeah.

Linkcoln’s “Gold Coast” is from Dew.

I hope you enjoy.

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A drone forms a horizon whilst the sun rises upon muted wings. The morning comes and it ushers in a new, haunted space. The morning comes but it does not seem to be there and instead something eerie seems to dance and float and move about. Suddenly sound rains on down and in a state almost overwhelming. It pulls back the veil and the morning truly reveals itself.

Cycles of sound come and in out and even though some is almost overwhelming, it is also relieving. Muffled, vague, and yet specific; there is something that reaches out and tries to touch and connect and in that connection a revelation occurs.

Lower and lower things seem to go, and perhaps there is something heavenly about this and what is going on. The eeriness has left by this point and perhaps it is anticipation that replaces. There is anticipation and there is realisation, and there is sight and beauty and in all of that lies something that is scenic.

That scenic sense blooms and grows and it spreads on out. It forms from layers of sound and perhaps it is calming and comforting to witness. Perhaps it is something that speaks more to a desire of relief and relaxation, and it is approaching and it approaches gradually, and it is massive and beautiful, and it remains as such as the song ends.

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Wire and Wood

Posted on November 4, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Just a photo of some material being used to enable forms of convenience.

I feel like in a way this looks cluttered until you look at the photo for a short bit, and I think that in part that has to do with some parts only being partially in frame.

I hope you enjoy.

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Gloomy Day Along the Coast

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Not today, but the day when I took this was gloomy.
It could’ve been gloomy at this location a bit earlier today, now that I think about it, but that’s not important right now.

A scenic photo with a bit of progression in terms of amount of vegetation based on distance from where I was, but of course I’m only speaking about what is in frame. There’s an implication of what lies outside, but it’s not completely clear and so a bit is left to the imagination.

I think it’s easy to get an idea of how much wave action there was along here just by looking at the whitewater. There was a fair bit of power coming out of the ocean and it shows.

I hope you enjoy.

 

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1183: Third Day of November

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

It’s only the third day of November and already I’m struggling. Doing into NaNoWriMo was not the best idea that I’ve had, but it’s seldom the best idea I’ve had and so I keep on doing it because… well, I don’t know.

I have an idea and I’m working on it, but it really is taking me out this year. Only three days in and already I’m feeling like throwing in the towel. I can do better than this. I can go further. I can write harder.

It’s a cold morning and I’m tired and all those things, but there still remains a long day ahead and so I need to make sure I take advantage of the time I’m afforded. If I do not do that, then I’ll lose the day. I need to make sure that I do take advantage as this is a day that needs to be full of writing. I need to get on top of everything and write away, and then once I’ve done that I need to write some more. There will be so much writing that my writing will write words without prompt and then there will be a grand mess of tangles and knots and a series of other things that involve tangles and knots, and then it will all go somewhere from there.

Where it will go, I cannot say, but perhaps what will come forward is a rich tapestry of words forming imagery and that imagery will reveal something that was yet to be revealed due to a series of events not yet happening in the order that they were meant to happen. As such I can say that somehow I will be a secret genius.

From here I will go on and reinvent things that I didn’t think were possible and my secrets will remain a mystery. There will be a need for the enigmatic surrounding me at all times as in this unknowing people will be drawn to my genius and somehow I will become even more genius.

So anyway, I need to stop daydreaming and get on with the things. If I chip away at what I need to do then I will get a fair bit done and if I get a fair bit done I can relax this evening. There always is a strong desire for relaxing and so relaxing is what I need to do more of, but before all of that I need to get busy and start connecting the words together. I need to work out how the letters all fit and why they fit and where they fit and then I will create my tapestry of pointlessness, but it will appear as something deep more than it will appear meaningless, thus leading to a series of deceptions among a pageantry of trickery and all will not realise, and maybe I’ll refuse to reveal anything. After all, even if something is meaningless it can still mean something to someone out there.

The time it took to write five-hundred words: 05:33:29

Rough start. Gradually became something far too long and far too rambling, but I like the result.

Written at home.

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A Poem About a Sudden Storm

Posted on November 3, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

I wrote a bit of this a few days ago and decided to start again.
Then I didn’t and decided to try and finish it off this morning.
I can confirm that it was not worth doing so.

I hope you enjoy.

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Whilst there are signs of its approach
Though they appear more as oddities
The place is calm and the place is still
Despite the breeze, all is quiet

A sudden rush of violence
Strikes upon and surrounds
The rush is deafening
And the view grows dark

Surprise reigns for only a brief moment
Soon the scene sinks in
Though as rapidly as it arrived
The violence dissipates

 

 

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Connected Utility

Posted on November 2, 2022 by Stupidity Hole

Probably could’ve thought of a better title, but eh.

When I took this photo I was thinking about how these utility poles looked kind of scenic. Maybe. Not entirely good at explaining this, but that might have to do with being tired.

Anyway, there’s a kind of bleakness to this and in part that is due to the contrast in shade and light, and in part due to seeing these lines and poles sitting the way they do in a vegetated space.

This is my submission into Leanne Cole‘s “Monochrome Madness” for this week.
I suggest checking out Leanne’s photography, as well as checking out what other people submit.

A lot of what people are submitting will likely end up here.

I hope you enjoy.

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