tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post6470353992483562646..comments2024-03-18T10:29:46.055+00:00Comments on Ken Armstrong Writing Stuff: Um…Ken Armstronghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07775956557261111127noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-76590417749534046322011-07-17T16:49:21.393+01:002011-07-17T16:49:21.393+01:00I wrote a short story a few years back for my daug...I wrote a short story a few years back for my daughter called ‘Blank Page’ in which she’s the narrator. A snippet:<br /><br /><br />“The future,” he began, before pausing for effect no sooner than he’d started, “is like a blank piece of paper and there’s nothing more foreboding that being faced with a white sheet of paper when you’re not sure what you’re expected to say. But who says you’ve got to write anything? You could draw on it, scribble on it, fold it up and put it in your pocket, rip it to shreds or make an origami water bomb out of it. It’s your future – you’re the one who has to live in it when everyone has long run out of remarks to pass about it. Remember that.”<br /><br />He’s a clever old thing, my dad, and that wisdom rests on a pile of mistakes a mile high. “We learn from our mistakes,” he once told me, “which is why I’m a genius.” He’s not a genius but I do tend to listen when he goes into wise old owl mode.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-65508891995704173402011-07-17T16:37:40.779+01:002011-07-17T16:37:40.779+01:00'Goof off' isn't dirty. But my brother...'Goof off' isn't dirty. But my brother and his friends had the best time saying 'piss off' for months after seeing Monty Python for the first time. I have said it myself about 3 times my whole life cause it is kind of bad, really.Laurahttp://wordgrrls.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-31383201562784925452011-07-17T16:01:12.359+01:002011-07-17T16:01:12.359+01:00And some days, the words just go on vacation and l...And some days, the words just go on vacation and leave you behind. Don't even bring home a t-shirt. ;)hopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03306622656461205674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-74695795187590574922011-07-17T15:06:58.992+01:002011-07-17T15:06:58.992+01:00The mind of no-mind confronts the snowy fields of ...The mind of no-mind confronts the snowy fields of nothingness represented by the blank page which in its own turn represents the black slate of consciousness. Sometimes the fact that there are infinite possibilities can be inhibiting. Sometimes having a constriction, even an arbitrary one, can give us the framework necessary, so that we can get on with it. I never get stuck for having something to write about, although I do have days when I don't want to write about Anything. So writing about Nothing is great.<br /><br />"I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry as I need it." —John CageArt Durkeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07463180236975988432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6496460488742488789.post-25743077215157744462011-07-17T15:01:46.575+01:002011-07-17T15:01:46.575+01:00I'm glad you wrote it too. There's a great...I'm glad you wrote it too. There's a great lesson in here. (I mean besides the fact that people on your side of the pond don't really say goof off.)<br /><br />I'm going to go tweet this or something.Emily Suesshttp://blog.emilysuess.comnoreply@blogger.com