"I like the idea of taking a long post and trying to break it down to its essence and have it remain palatable sentence by sentence. I'm doing something like it now with "Sunday Driver" by trying to make scenes from the short story…"
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Robert Crisman commented on J. K. Langham's blog post THINK"Angela's right. I've written long and short and like both. It's whatever the story needs that determines.
As for the challenge to make it right and pure, what challenge? 6S has never issued such. And what does right and pure mean?"
Deborah Jovan Reed commented on J. K. Langham's blog post THINK"Ah heck, I love to edit stuffs but my worse bit is comma, semi-colon, colon."
"Yeah, I have a lot of problems with comma's. I should know better."
Deborah Jovan Reed commented on J. K. Langham's blog post THINK"Is it incomplete? We know what you're talking about. I just wouldn't have put the comma between right and and."
"Those long sentences make reading a chore. I wonder if one post could be chosen and made into a more consise six sentences without losing meaning? Now there's a real challenge.
(I noticed that no one has mentioned that my last sentence is…"
Kristine_ES commented on J. K. Langham's blog post Well Water"that *is* a refreshing read! just this side of tingly. nice!"
Diana E. Backhouse commented on J. K. Langham's blog post Well Water"Don't worry. At least your sentences are short. I stretch far too many of mine to make them fit into six."
"Dang! Diana, guess that sixth sentence did fall into the well. (Probably the best one too!) Too many re-writes!"
Diana E. Backhouse commented on J. K. Langham's blog post Well Water"Oh, to find some clear natural, unpolluted water! Just one question: did your sixth sentence fall into the well?"
Adrian George Nicolae commented on J. K. Langham's blog post Well Water"Reminds me of my breaks after a run, when I went and drank from a roarer."
Joey Delgado commented on J. K. Langham's blog post Well Water"Thirst and quenching it perfectly described in six short lines. Well done J.K."
Well Water
I see a dipper brimming with clear, cool water.I taste a mouthful; ice cold well water.It flows down my chin and wakes up the thirsty cells of my mouth, cooling my throat as I swallow.I can feel it as it slides down inside of me, clear to my stomach.It makes a swishing noise there and waits for another deep swallow to follow it.See More
"Sad, JK, but very true. And even more true, a lot of people get hurt by trying to help someone who is only pretending to be homeless. It makes us cynical, and careful, and thats the saddest thing of all.
Ncely delineated.…"
Angela commented on J. K. Langham's blog post The Collection"Sounds like she's got her own NatGeo Channel in the kitchen! Enjoyed this."
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- Janice Langham lives in Leavenworth, Kansas with her husband of 47 years Don, and their dog Foxy. For the last eleven years, she has volunteered at the Leavenworth Council on Aging as a T'ai Chi instructor, where she has also given classes on journal writing. Janice has completed a 400+ page jounal of her life and has transcribed her husbands autobiography. One of her articles was published in Birds and Blooms, a national gardening magazine, and she has recently won second place in the teachers category of the American T'ai Chi and Qigong Associations 2012 writing contest. Along with writing she enjoys reading, word games, gardening and old movies.
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- At 4:41pm on June 5, 2012,
Robert McEvily said… Welcome Janice!
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THINK
Posted on February 9, 2013 at 1:06pm 9 Comments 0 Favorites
To put everything in six sentences is not easy.
Very few can do it.
Too many use punctuation.
They make paragraphs of words.
What happened to the challenge?
To make it right, and pure?
Well Water
Posted on January 11, 2013 at 5:15pm 7 Comments 0 Favorites
I see a dipper brimming with clear, cool water.
I taste a mouthful; ice cold well water.
It flows down my chin and wakes up the thirsty cells of my mouth, cooling my throat as I swallow.
I can feel it as it slides down inside of me, clear to my stomach.
It makes a swishing noise there and waits for another deep swallow to follow it.
Las Vegas
Posted on June 16, 2012 at 2:53pm 1 Comment 0 Favorites
We passed a middle-aged woman sitting on a curb downtown, hunched over her bible; she rocked back and forth as she read the scriptures loudly to herself.
The woman was oblivious of everyone and everything around her.
As we walked by, her musty clothes wrapped the smell of the homeless around us; we hurried by.
On the Strip, a man lay motionless under some shrubs, we slowed down, "Is he breathing?"
"He's probably just passed out drunk, or on drugs," we hurried…
ContinueThe Collection
Posted on June 15, 2012 at 2:33pm 2 Comments 1 Favorite
In a small curio cabinet above the kitchen sink were small jars with contents from around the world, she didn't travel, but her friends did, and as she scrubbed the grimy dishes, she would study her neatly labeled collection.
The first two were jars of ashes, one contained ash from Mt. Vesuvius, brought home by a GI in 1944; the second held ashes from Mt. St. Helena, she imagined they also contained specks of the man who died in the blast because he refused to leave his…
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