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100 Words on Darkness

February 09th, 2010 | Category: 100 Words

100 Word ChallengeI‘ve been a little scarce these past two weeks.  I wouldn’t even know where to begin telling you all that is going on in my life presently.  Lots and lots of mostly good stuff all converging at once, and I can barely catch my breath.  I keep thinking it’s going to slow down, but this week is already off to an overwhelming start.  I feel a little like my head might implode, but I can’t honestly complain about a lot of what is going on, since it’s mostly productive and good.  Just too much all at the same time, and yeah, it’s stressing me out.

Not enough time for my own writing, for blogging, for fun.  But the 100 words will go on.  (With or without me I’m beginning to suspect!)  My pick of the week is Mike, because BANG ZIP POW, this entry hit me right in the face with its power.

You can’t see it, but it’s there. It’s doubt. Fear. Loneliness. Anger. It’s cynicism. It’s snark, and spite, and denial of the rationality of those who oppose you. It’s rage, and violence, and destruction. It’s separation from light, goodness, trust, hope. You can see it in the path you’ve chosen, and you can see it reflected in the embryonic psyche of your child. You never wanted them to find it, but they know it now, and they will learn the contours of the insides of the fog soon enough. It’s there, and it’s growing, and it pulls at your ankles.

Wow.

In other words:

By the way, thanks to Tara for the “Darkness” challenge.  It was clearly very inspiring; lots of really moving pieces this last week!This week’s challenge (for details on how to play, go here), is again from Dies the Fire: A Novel of the Change, by S.M. Stirling.  Still lots of death and mayhem, makeshift armor and weapons, leaders emerging, and wars a-brewing. And the word is:

Overall

Write 100 words on it, post to your blog, and leave a comment here so we can find you.  Challenge closes on Saturday-ish. Don’t forget TITLES!  Happy writing!

With love,

11 Comments so far

  1. Titanium February 10th, 2010 12:16 am

    Here are my 100 words… entitled, “N8 the GR8″.

    Sometimes, words are not enough.

  2. Patti February 10th, 2010 5:30 am

    My entry for this week is posted.

  3. lceel February 11th, 2010 8:26 pm

    Me effort at “Overall” is (going for 4 weeks in a row with perfectly formulated link to the blog) here.

  4. Tara R. February 12th, 2010 7:12 pm

    Finally got my submission posted:

    http://ifmomsaysok.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/life-is-good/

  5. shakira February 13th, 2010 3:17 am

    Hi there,
    I am joining you for the first time.
    It was not as easy as I thought but what a challenge!

    My post is up at

    http://justmeshakirack.blogspot.com/2010/02/100-words-on-overall.html

    hugs
    shakira

  6. Chloe February 13th, 2010 7:29 pm

    My entry is here.
    As promised.

  7. Harvee February 13th, 2010 9:26 pm

    Hi: My first submission for the Word Challenge. It was fun doing it. Here is my exercise: 2010 Too Much

  8. Scetches February 14th, 2010 4:00 pm

    Hello. I’ve posted my contribution to this week’s challenge, titled “Beat.” http://bit.ly/9hAJPu

  9. Elaine Brosnan February 14th, 2010 4:33 pm

    I skipped out on darkness…if you read my posts you’ll know why! anyway, back in the game, this one was fun for me, hope you enjoy, had a great time reading all of yours. Title for “overall” Bay Grace

    http://www.cardinalcardz.com/blog/

  10. Michael February 16th, 2010 3:44 am

    http://innocentsaccidentshints.blogspot.com/2010/02/overall-im-stupid.html

    This is my entry for the challenge, along with an explanation about how I totally misunderstood the challenge.

  11. Old School/New School Mom February 24th, 2010 11:36 pm

    http://www.oldschoolnewschoolmom.com/2010/02/100-word-challenge-fun.html

    This is for “Fun”

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