Happy Hobbit Day!

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Thanks for the heads up Fossy

I think I'll see the Wizard and watch Hi-Fi Hobbit tonight :)


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Last Edited by CK Dexter Haven on 09/22/2021 04:59 PM

Right on!!!! I have a copy of Bakshi’s LOTR. Only the first one, I wish I had the rest. Sounds like you’re gonna do it up hobbit style. Longbottom…

I am also INFJ. I would have killed Gollum while the elves had him. Lolol!

Hey Fossy! Long time no see. My fault entirely :/

Hope you are doing well and still writing

Happy hobbit day to all and to all a good night!

Hey... did you like bake a cake or anything?

Pot brownies will have to do.

Do Hobbits have hot sex? Tolkien never said.

I miss The Shire.

Thank you! I could use some hobbit philosophy in my life right now!

It will be a great doom break from the darkness.

The Hobbit (1977) is probably my favorite animated feature of all time. Fantastic Planet (1973) is a contender too.

Hello!! where did you get that silly thing? Lol that made me spit take my coffee!!! Lol!

Yes, I’m still writing. I was tearing it up for a while but have come to a place where I am stalled. I started an actual novel then some things got changed up in my personal life and I moved and I just haven’t been in the creative mind frame for a few weeks. Can’t figure out how to proceed in the scenario I created and not motivated atm to ponder it for any length of time!

It’s the twilight zone for a writer. I am sure I will get back to it soon though.

How about you? You are always prolific with your great stories. Are you flowing?

Probably why they have to eat so much. Replenish the energy they use shagging all the time. I mean, they do like to party. Lol

Did you have fun? Woot woot!!

Are you in the US? The Ozarks look like the Shire. Take a visit!

So much win!!!!

ok maybe I'll build a hobbit house there!

ghostly screams tried to buy me ice cream but I settled on a Popeyes chicken sandwich instead. It was so good!!!! It was a great birthday. We had a lot of fun and I fell off my plant based diet for a couple of days. I even had a hamburger the day before!!! Omgosh so good! cake? I wanted meat! Now, back to squash and beans until the next holiday.

Southwest Missouri, northwest Arkansas is a cool place. Beautiful beyond words and a happening mountain biking community if you’re into that. If not you can hike the trails. It looks like England there, imo.

Happy morning to you both!

Idk…. Probably the first age when Morgoth was creating dragon and balrog armies.

Only among writers and musicians can the phrase "tearing it up" be a good thing. But it is-- it so is!

I think that's great, Fossy. Even the temporary roadblock, that's great too. Because I bet you'll get around it (or over, or under it, or all three)-- just like that song, about love-- and you'll be a better writer because of it.

Also, such a great comment when you write, "...I just haven’t been in the creative mind frame for a few weeks. Can’t figure out how to proceed in the scenario I created..."

Wow, I can totes McGoats relate to that. I think we all can. We humans, we unstoppable creators. All I know personally about creating is song writing, story writing, and cooking-writing. And in cooking, no matter how it looks I'll serve it as long as it tastes good. Same thing with songwriting, actually.

Novels are a little different, although a year ago I had never written one, so what the hockey sticks to I know? But I have learned a few things recently. And if you don't mind, I'll bend your ear a little:



* If you're like me--that is, not writing for profit--then the whole world is at your fingertips. Literally, and literarily. If one part of the story (story "arc") isn't jiving with the rest of your corpuscles, don't sweat it: forget it!

--> By that I mean, take a wide berth and keep writing the story, even if it's about something else. Use your narrator/narrative powers to seize the reins of storytelling and go off on a fun tangent. Write about how hard it is to write! Talk about some other aspect of the world you are creating. Ancient intra-book history, or some red herring story which amuses you while you write it. Shake things up-- no one will appreciate it more than you, Fossy. Which is the way it will have been supposed to be. Trust me ;)

* As an experiment, try some day to write as if you have the full expectation of deleting that day's work after you finish it. A free day of writing, where anything goes. Using the dictum "tis easier to edit than to write," just have yourself a Fossy ol' blast and write whatever comes to mind. After all, you're just going to "delete it all" later, right? Right!

So... write!



* You mention a twilight zone, and that you'll get back to writing eventually. Good for you, and of course you will. And yet while there's no time the present -- or even if the present is just a pair of smelly socks -- well, there's always tomorrow, too.

Never underestimate the power of tomorrow. If you keep saying you'll do something tomorrow, you almost always will. Even if it takes a couple weeks. There is no harm nor shame in enjoying each day as it comes. All I'm trying to say is that sometimes today even sweeter if you find yourself looking forward to the next day, too.

Exclamation point!

Be well, my friend.
You are powerful force on GLP, and probably even moreso in real life. Keep on keepin' on, sister.

~Wharf Rat

Last Edited by Wharf Rat on 09/23/2021 11:59 AM