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!
Great goals, and that’s nice that you have a relevant conference nearby - by the sounds of it, as a regular event you can plan around, even. Also, your background sounds like it would have exposed you to a lot of interesting raw material to write about!
I think many of us are with you on the goal of building a consistent habit of writing - that seems to be the gold standard for writers: that if you can actually produce words consistently, all else follows.
Actually you’ve inspired me - I’m going to open a text file and see what comes out right now.
Welcome to the writing club!
Thank you!
I was impressed and surprised to find such a resource this close to home. Some talented writers in the Huntington, WV area are really doing a service to their community.
Hope your session was fruitful!