Satiated

LORD have mercy! I've had a thorn in my side the size of a New England clam as of late; a thorn that screams at me to write something (quite literally, and therefore, verbally). It's akin to an insatiable desire for turkey on the fourth Thursday of November, ham on the 25th of December, green Guinness on St Patty's Day, and endless kisses and romantic schmoozing on February 14th. How does one go about relieving these covetous wants and needs? They act on them! Yes! Go out and gobble that gobbler, pork out on that ham, drown the desire in an Irish drink, and love your love with an unending love! In my case, though, write, and write about whatever. Here I pluck the thorn out.

In the weeks leading up to my current summer reading blockade, I've been feeling like I should/could write a short story. Something fantasy based or simple in it's telling; sort of a dog and his boy kind of story, but not. I don't know if the style I would use in a narrative would be worth reading or comparable to some of my favorite authors (I, of course, speak of Vonnegut, Lawhead, Crichton, and Adams [or, for the more classical, Lewis, Orwell, Hugo, and Dickens]), but I think I could make an interesting story. The question then becomes, how long should it be? Or more importantly, who would read it?

I'm naturally a shy person and not outgoing except at need. A short story, to be read in the court of public opinion (my core of friends), falls most assuredly in the outgoing category. Recently, I was joking with Trev and Amanda, and perhaps others or not the former two at all, regarding having a game of sorts in regards to writing. We would take a title, something vague yet specific, and all write our own short stories. Something brief, like 3 or 4 pages but no more than 5. I think it's a wonderful idea and I'd like to inquire of my friends if they'd like to try it out in our free times. Thoughts? (Note: this is the shy guy's way of trying to not prominently display his work, but hiding it amongst others, and still getting attention).

P.S. The 22° halo pictured in the previous blog is one of the most beautiful, naturally occurring phenomena to me. It's caused by hexagonal ice crystals in the atmosphere reflecting light and typically occur with cirrus clouds. I want to get married during one.