{"id":6125,"date":"2015-02-08T23:45:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T03:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arts.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=6125"},"modified":"2015-02-08T23:45:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T03:45:17","slug":"a-hodgepodge-of-porcupines-with-their-guard-down-no-quills-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2015\/02\/08\/a-hodgepodge-of-porcupines-with-their-guard-down-no-quills-here\/","title":{"rendered":"A Hodgepodge of Porcupines? with their Guard down? (no quills here)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tumbling through my own thoughts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c slowing to a crawl at certain times and speeding into a frenzy as slews of\u00c2\u00a0unending sentences spill forth through the tips of my fingers rhythmically tapping the key \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it becomes very easy to forget where I was going with anything. There is never a strict agenda when I bring my thoughts to the page, or maybe not even in my head either. More often than not, a character as absurd as a man who drinks poison for a living is all I need to get me going. That would be some cool shit to write about for my next short story I say and my sprawling unconscious responds with, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fine, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll fill in the rest.\u00e2\u20ac\u009dBut being guided through the corridors of my mind by color coded fluorescent lights may be all in all a better strategy if I wish to extend my stories to anything longer than twenty pages. Wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t? Shouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t? Naw\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, I would never finish it cause I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get bored halfway through. There is more excitement if I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know the ending either as I write the story.<\/p>\n

Each scene needs to be important by itself. Come come no filler filler. But when I plan, I always find myself adding such elements. Such bombastic or often dull lulls of needless plot.
\nSometimes you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to buy that OJ with no pulp, sometimes you NEED that pulp. Ironically, I guess OJ with no pulp goes down smoother than the other variant. Revel! Revel! Cheap amusement has come!
\nCouch lounging relaxation to soothe the mind into a gentle haze of acceptance of whatever stream of information is being filtered into the t\u00c3\u00aate. Cups of corn syrup and handfuls of salt, munching with ever-dry lips and watching with half-closed-lids, and an engine that is barely running, grumbles on to keep the top happy.
\nOutside, in the bay, the cargo ships sit in the polluted waters that spit out purple seashells for kids to collect and dogs to step on, awaiting the delivery of their presents from ashore, until then, their red noses sticking out of the water, their empty stomachs allow such buoyancy. Reveal to me your little red nose greedy vessel. Wait in the cold night till fate delivers you what you yearn. Then before the collared man wakes the next day, leave without a note, taking with you your earned riches, only to give it all away. Give and take, never keep anything, and see the new and old.<\/p>\n

It is easier to move on when you do not linger. Deal with success and failure in the same way \u00e2\u20ac\u201c quickly learn and move on. Otherwise, how can you improve? By sitting around on your successes or failures\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6all you do is spit out purple shit.<\/p>\n

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Tumbling through my own thoughts \u00e2\u20ac\u201c slowing to a crawl at certain times and speeding into a frenzy as slews of\u00c2\u00a0unending sentences spill forth through the tips of my fingers rhythmically tapping the key \u00e2\u20ac\u201c it becomes very easy to forget where I was going with anything. There is never a strict agenda when I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6181,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions\/6181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}