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Rated: E · Book · Writing.Com · #2135844
With coffee and writing implements at hand, I can determine the shape of today.
#946168 added November 24, 2018 at 8:50am
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Almost a bear
Finally, a Saturday morning where I don't have to rush around for work. It's chilly, rainy, and gloomy, but breakfast is done and here I sit with my coffee, ready to get a bit of writing done between laundry loads.

This morning's project is an entry for the Weird Tales contest. Leaving aside the fact that I'm a fan of the old pulp, I felt bad for the guy that runs the contest. Last month he had no entries at all, so I vowed to write an entry for this one. It's too unique a contest to disregard, and the mental exercise will do me good.

My entry is mostly finished...of course, it will need fine-tuning once it's complete. I tend to think of writing like stonecarving...one hacks a general shape out of a block of stone...a bear, say. That's stage one. Then, one takes up the finer instruments and adds details like eyes, muzzle, ears, claws. I'm nearly into phase two...

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