 For Authors: August 26, 2015 Issue [#7171] |
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This week: Time Capsule!! Edited by: Fyn  
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| No fun quotes this week, just been thinking about WDC's fifteenth anniversary and how far we have all come. I've been here 10+ years and I know how much my life has changed. I can only envision how much it will change in the next fifteen! |
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Ever considered creating your own time capsule? With the 15th Anniversary of Writing.Com just around the corner, now would be an excellent time to create your own!!! It can be a real capsule or a virtual one, here at WDC!
What to put in a time capsule? Here on WdC, you could create a folder with pictures, copies of some of your favorite pieces, stuff about your friends here, your thoughts about your life, your dreams and goals. Then lock it down, "For Your Eyes Only" with a note to yourself to open it in fifteen years or next year or when your book gets published or on some special day down the road. (Writing.com will still be here!!!)
For a real capsule there are so many things you could put in a box and tuck it down in the basement or in that cabinet atop the fridge that you never go in to anyway! What might you put in it?
1. Ask friends and family members, your spouse and kids, your grandparents, parents and best friends to write you a letter. Let them know it is for a time capsule and tell them you will not be opening their sealed letters until the OD (Open date). Imagine the fun of a touch/hug from the past opening letters from your folks or grands from the now. Or maybe ask them to write a letter to your kids as well. Include one to yourself.
Write about your dreams and goals, what or where you hope to have done or traveled.
2. Include a copy of some of your writing, a copy of your book, your all time favorite poem.
3. Pictures of your family, yourself, your kids
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4. Souvenirs of some fun things you did this summer.
5. Favorite recipes.
6. Write a letter to your children (or grandkids) or future kids. Tell them of your hopes and dreams for them. Tell them about you, who you are in the now and recall some favored moments growing up. (If you are older, like I am, this might be about days pre-computers, cell phones and Facebook!)
7. Write a note to your spouse or partner.
8. A current newspaper.
9. If you have kids, ask them to pick something to put in the box. Ask your parents or grandparents the same thing. Have them wrap it up so it is a surprise down the road!
10. An old photograph album.
11. Perhaps a lock of hair. A baseball card?
12. Predictions for the future...what will have in the year you expect to open the box or have it opened?
13. A share of a stock. Will it be worth a fortune or be an amusing curiosity?
Again, if you are old, like me, put a note in with your final papers/will that there is a time capsule in X location so your kids are reminded about it and tell them where it is. It just might be a final hug!
We did this when I was a child. We buried it where we were living at the time and I forgot all about it. When my mom passed away, she left me a note reminding me about it. We were a thousand miles away from it and the property was now State land. It took me a few years, but I finally was able to go back. Cars being no longer allowed on the roads in the park, I had to hike the three miles in. I found the huge round rock above where our driveway used to be (the house is long gone), wait until there was no one around and dig it up. I hiked back out with the coffee can in my backpack.
Although a part of me wanted to open it right away, I found myself waiting almost two weeks to open the can. I didn't even remember our doing it when I was seven, and at that time, I was in my fifties. When I did, I laughed and I cried and I marveled.
There were letters from my grandmother and great-aunt. Letters from my folks on their dreams for my brother and I. There were pictures taken about two weeks before it was buried. The picture of me was one where I was playing dress-up with way too big high heels on, a long black gown and a huge floppy hat. I was wearing my mother's pearls (which I still have) and trying to act oh so elegant. (I am SO NOT the elegant sort!) Sure made me smile.
There was a 'troll.' These were a big deal when I was seven. It had purple hair and a big belly. There was a note from me saying how I would grow up and become a writer and write lots of books. *grin* Remember, I was seven! It said I would go see castles in Scotland (I had), have a horse, (I did) and marry someone rich who would treat me like a queen. (He's not rich, but he does treat me like a queen!)
There was a ring that had been my grandmother's, a twig from my maple tree and a newspaper where the front headline was about the construction of the Berlin Wall starting. A liberty silver dollar for each of us from a hundred years before we each (my brother and I) were born. There was a page torn out of a 'Redbook' magazine that featured my parents' winning entry of my birth announcement.
Opening that time capsule was like opening a can full of hugs. |
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vada  says: What a neat story about your childhood. Wonderfully visual as well. I was 'bitten' as an adult after my first two (of three) children were born. Took me a couple more years before I got the nerve to try, and forty or so years later, I'm still scribbling so must have been a big 'bite'.
Quick-Quill  writes: a nice piece about your trip back in time. I can't remebe4r when I first started writing but I do remember one of my first creative writing classes. I wrote the teacher's prompt from a totally different POV than anyone else in the class and it ended a bit morbid. I was commended by the teacher. that had me thinking about writing stories different from what I read.
Bearclaw  comments: I recieved the writing bug at an early age. Almost as soon as I started reading I thought to myself,"Hey I can do that" and I did and have ever since. Do I expect to get rich and famous? Not really. But it would be nice. I write because I have stories to tell and it is a release to keep my sanity.
brom21 adds: My writing interest began in high school. It was not fiction but technical/ content writing. When I was in my mid-twenties, I discovered WDC. I joined and found myself doubling in fiction. It was fun and I got some praise for the first time. Eventually, I walked away from WDC and then rejoined a few years later. I was in college deciding my major and by that time I was practicing fiction on WDC. I was enjoying it and soon I majored in creative writing. Later I got my degree and I am full-fledged writing person now.
Elfin Dragon-finally published writes: I can honestly say I'm not sure when I was bit by the writing but. I think the moment I could actually pick up a pencil or pen and form words was probably the day I wanted to write - and the day I wanted to draw. For me they're synonymous. Writing and drawing what's in my imagination. If I couldn't quite do one, I'd do the other. Sometimes I'd do both, or I'd sing. If I had the ability to compose music, I'd do that too. I truly believe that writing as an art form spans the many genres of art. Be it actual art, dance, song, composing music, photography or writing.
DB Cooper admits: I was NEVER good at poetry but it took forever to admit that.
So...you can only get better then, right?
Shannon  says: Beautiful newsletter, Fyn. Your secluded childhood sounds a lot like mine. And like you, I've written about it for years. 
Mara ♣ McBain  Beautiful description. I felt like I was there. What a truly magical place to grow up.
DRSmith says: Your newsies never cease to amaze. 'Nuff said.
Word Warrior beating cancer!! writes: I loved this newsletter!I could visualize your extremely descriptive story, and I so envy your childhood there by the lake. I too loved to explore nature when I was a child, but after years of playing in the forest, with my own little clearing that was my house, my mama said it wasn't safe - "convicts" might get me. Now I didn't know what a convict was, but I heard on T.V. that one was on the loose, so I sadly stayed out of my forest.
We too had horses, but it was before I was old enough to ride. When that time came, Daddy said we couldn't afford to feed them anymore. It was okay, I had dogs and farm animals to play with. Thanks for sharing your story! 
Thanks for all the feedback! It was particularly nice to see some respondents I hadn't seen before! Made my week!{/b} |
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