Update on “You, The Movie”

I was siting in a graveyard park with a friend of mine and he started talking about telecanesis. I had never heard of it, but the vivid way he described it actually got me high. I came crashing back down to earth, though, when a tramp came up to me and asked if I wanted to buy a sock.

John,

This is fantastic!

I went into this little experiment of yours thinking that long copy is always better…

And it is, BUT:

What you helped me figure out is the difference between “long copy” and “bloated copy”…

Note to self: must be quality quantity, not just quantity…

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“So now we all know what’s under the hood, why don’t we see what’s behind the wheel,” was all it took to provoke him…

Later, veering onto that damned gravel covered shoulder to pass him once and for all, I swore I had the upper hand, I swore I actually had him.

The last thing that I remember before waking-up was the deafening sound of “Halo 8 track 4” and this feeling that I can only describe as elation’s evil counter-part…

The Doctor in his most solemn voice told me… he has two years more or less, his heart is worn out… from beating to fast.

What would we do now, his life is only half, done…40 is to early to think of things like this,and the transplant that we sold everything for our ray of hope, he didn’t qualify now it is gone like a whisp of smoke.

So we cried a little… and worried lots but decided to live with a new plan and do what we needed to, and hard as it is at times…we have made it work 8 years longer than they said was possible.

This exercise is really awesome for building writing and sadly enough, many people here did not take seriously enough the limitations in which to do the job.

I will not participate here only because my english writing skills are poor – it is a foreign language for me. But I can testify it really does work to write within strict boundaries. For instance, I once proposed to a literary website a new section called “300 touches”, where all stories should be told with no more than 300 characters (including spaces!). The section was a success at the time and many master storytellers could tell a whole story using 50 or an even shorter set of characters.

Besides making you a better writter… It is fun. Give it a taste!

By the light of a full moon that blazes like the sun, we splash and paddle a rickety canoe across the murky depths of the alligator-infested Amazon.

Suddenly, a harsh slapping and splashing sound erupts as something unseen hits and rocks the canoe so hard that it shakes my heart and freezes my soul.

“Probably just a river dolphin…” my guide pretends.

I pretend to believe him and paddle on… river dolphins are good luck after all!