Remnants 21 - Things I Wrote for Class but Never Put up Here until Now (Thing 2: Notecard Freewrite?)

At some point we were handed note cards, and on one side, it looks like we were supposed to just write whatever we wanted. Either that or it just seems that way because I always just write whatever I want. Random side note: when I was writing my short story, I had no idea that I had used the name Martin in this. By the way, these things aren't going up here in any particular order.

Remnants 20 - Things I Wrote for Class but Never Put up Here until Now (Thing 1: Looking for Something Lost)

Back to square one. This is the piece I was talking about in Remnants 1. As this series' title says, I wrote these things for class and I'm putting them up now, but I'm leaving them unrevised.

Remnants 18 - Late-night Limbo: Part 5 (Invasion of Limbo)

I've been suspecting this rare, specialized version of limbo for quite some time now, and I finally encountered it again, confirming its existence.

Remnants 17 - The Writing Life: Thoughts

Uuuuuuh...

So as is probably expected of me given my current views on writing, I found Chapter 1 of Annie Dillard's The Writing Life to be somewhat...tedious.

Remnants 15 - Hiatus

Sorry I forgot to put some kind of greeting in that last post. I had one in Remnants 13, but as you may have read, that went offline recently after it went online. Anyway, I'm back after a random break from writing I decided to take after wracking my brains trying to come up with a decent ingredients post for my short story. Maybe that break helped me with totally ruining my Stanford application, but whatever - I liked it, so if they don't then I still have no regrets in writing it. Today, I feel like writing one of those generic shorts I pretend to hate so much. Thus I present to you "Hiatus".

Remnants 14 - A wise man named Peter

A wise man named Peter once came and said to me something about how posting my Stanford responses on the Internet was probably a bad idea, but Remnants 13 - A new year, a new wtfdidijustwrite will still remain available, as it is still sitting as an unsaved pile of words and HTML in notepad.exe. Email me if you want a couple of fresh, unique responses to some otherwise generic questions from one of the most highly selective schools in the nation.

Remnants 12 - A Shocking Revelation & "Dust"

So I thought about it for a while and realized that the main reason I don't have too many MIXes out is probably the fact that I tend to write freaking long stories for them. 'Twas quite the realization, I must say. I do know I have at least three MIXes with over a thousand words, and one more that isn't done yet, but all of those had to be that long because I had to fit each complete story in them. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that I've been thinking too big for my stories and that I need to practice writing more basic things that are made long through meaningful description.

So I'll start practicing with this short, titled "Dust."

Remnants 11 - You have the power to believe

This post is in part a response to Lich Arr's post on states of existence.

Remnants 10 - [ untitled ]

Weeks of taking pictures of my hair from when I wake up all comes down to this:

Remnants 9 - I have issues

So a couple minutes ago I read this post on Wesley's blog and it made me reflect a little on something I've reflected on increasingly in recent times.

That aforementioned something is my ability to set my priorities straight, or lack thereof. Or maybe it's my general laziness. Or my selective dedication/determination/willingness to exert myself. Or m...

Whatever that something is, I'll be describing it in this post, so allow me to introduce you to one of its little quirks that I think really helps define it.

Remnants 8 - Late-night Limbo: Part 4 (Living Dream)

Remnants 7 - Halloween Funsies

Carved this on Monday/Tuesday from 10:30 PM to 1:30 AM. As a not-so-random sidenote, I didn't go into limbo that night (morning?), probably because I had to keep my mind focused on getting this all to work out right.

I like pumpkins.

Remnants 5 - Late-night Limbo: Part 2 (Piecewise Fail)

Today is one of those days where I surprisingly don't end up in late-night limbo by 11 o'clock (incidentally, I employed a combination of fruit juice and timed explosion of Hatsukoi Limited to keep me afloat). Therefore, I will detail my findings on a second form of limbo that I have encountered.

This form of limbo is similar to my 11 o'clock Fail in that a total loss of consciousness is reached. What differentiates the two, however, is that Piecewise Fail is just that - a version of late-night limbo that comes in defined waves of high and low strength, leading to periodic moments of relative awareness that cause even more confusion than 11 o'clock Fail.

Remnants 4 - Late-night Limbo: Part 1 (11 o'clock Fail)

I've always been pretty good at doing the limbo, not just because I'm short. I have good enough knee and back strength to bend into a bridge from standing. I think at some point in middle school we for some reason were doing a limbo competition thing and I won.

But late-night limbo is something else entirely. It's still focused on the concept of "how low can you go," but more in a mental sense, rather than physical. See, late-night limbo is all about having a competition with yourself to see just how low-level your mental processes become before you just lose and fall asleep from exhaustion. It's generally a single-player thing, but sometimes you can bring a friend along and see who loses first, or see how high you can get yourselves before falling back down to normal thought patterns.

Late-night limbo is not just an activity, but also a state of being and possibly an alternate dimension. Within the coming weeks I will seek to chronicle my trips into late-night limbo and its various forms.

Remnants 3 - ay, where's mah creativity at?

So lately I've been working on a really long mix, but beyond that I feel like I'm not having any ideas of my own.

Remnants 2 - Why "Remnants from the Blender Lid"

Short answer: Because it sounds random.

Remnants 1 - Looking for Something Lost

I wrote this short with only a vague idea in mind at the start. Really the only thing I visualized at first was the image of a child digging for worms. From there I pulled the classic saying, "Leave no stone unturned." After that I just let my heart write through my hands. As I wrote, I filled in the rest of the idea, and (clearly) changed it multiple times before reaching the end. I feel like this was a great exercise in writing fiction. Not only was it fun, it also taught me a ton of things about myself and my good and bad points when it comes to writing.

In my next post I'll publish the story I wrote for another idea I had for the prompt "looking for something lost." If you'd like to read the story behind this post, just send me an email.

[ thus concludes this collection of remnants from the blender lid. the first collection of many to come. ]