Hi folks, and welcome to writing club update number 14 (fourteen!). Opening up to page 14 of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles we find this paradoxically stark and effusive description of a coming storm. Or perhaps all coming storms:
It was like those days when you heard a thunderstorm coming and there was the waiting silence and then the faintest pressure of the atmosphere as the climate blew over the land in shifts and shadows and vapors. And the change pressed at your ears and you were suspended in the waiting time of the coming storm.
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And then the storm. The electric illumination, the engulfments of dark wash and sounding black fell down, shutting in, forever.
Being as much of my bioregion is currently in the middle of a month-long drought, we could do with a “dark wash” right now. I hope you’ve had a decent amount of rain wherever you are, and if you’re also in a drought, I wish for both of us a big beautiful storm soon!
Speaking of welcome deluges, here are our wonderful writers:
Hopefully your writing has felt more like a deluge than a drought, but even the latter can be constructive in its own way. This also goes to any visitors not on this list (welcome!): please feel welcome to reply and comment with your own thoughts and projects!
Membership is just a matter of showing up! So just by saying hello, you’re half-way there. Next up would be setting some kind of goal for next month’s post, and taking an interest in what the other writers are up to–the more you comment on their goings-ons the more likely it is that you get some comments of your own when you have something to share. ;)
PS. There really is no other voice like Bradbury’s. Always loved his prose. And wow you’re right – 105th anniversary just this Friday! Good spot!
PPS. If you share a goal, I’ll try to send a reminder/encouragement before posting the next update, but at minimum I DM everyone to let them know when a new writing club post has dropped.