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!

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netOPMEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Omgosh, you did it! Congrats on getting your office fully set up. I know the thought-tax of a lingering task, which while not urgent or even strictly necessary, is a to-do that never gets cleared. So yeah, great job. :)

    Eager to hear if a daily routine emerges for you. I’ve had the beginnings of them myself, but never for long enough to become a genuine habit. That would be so cool, though–to sit to write as casually as one sidles up to a bathroom sink to brush their teeth. The dream!

    Also painting and poetry??! Jealous! What kind of painting and what sort of poetry have you been up to?

    • hazeebabee@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Thanks! It definetly feels good to be moved into my house and kind of done with renovation stuff.

      And I do watercolor and ink paintings, and most of my poetry is free form naturalist stuff :) maybe ill share a pic if I make something I’m proud of. Fingers crossed ill be productive this month lol