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The Microsoft Word

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In twenty three years, I never expected a man to be able to come away with thoughts that are so pure and tantalizing to the spirit; that it actually draws deep impressions onto the skin between the unrest and the pale sensitivity we all suffer in unison. Being unable to walk, breathe or bellow out the last of the dry mouth's disease. The red ragged fiber causes mood swings, night sweats or simple anarchy inside the mind. We scream but people cannot hear the voice that orders us to invite remedies of madness and gratification to the game of chess. Which piece will play a role in getting me back to health? Is it the queen or the pawn? I knew castles weren't gold or even silver but I knew something before they did. That was all the leverage I needed to make my way past the rhinos before they destroyed what was left of my mind. Losing your sanity to an illness has got to be the worst thing. Losing it to pleasure can not be so bad. Losing it before long was an ordeal like waiting for cactus to take a drink; they never do.
 
This to me seems a rather complex piece of writing. I had to read it three times and I'm still not exactly sure what you are trying to get across (sorry if I sound incredibly ignorant!). But you can definitely string a sentence together, meaning you can definitely write! Care to explain what it means?
 
Thanks for responding.

Sure, I'll walk you through my thought process as I wrote it.

The first thing I do before writing any piece is think of its title. Normally some writers only do that when they finish a work, but that's not how I operate with shorter-than-short stories. " The Microsoft Word " - meaning the extra subtle meaning of all concepts under one name.

In twenty three years, I never expected a man to be able to come away with thoughts that are so pure and tantilizing to the spirit; that it actually draws deep impressions onto the skin between the unrest and the pale sensitivity we all suffer in unison.

- The man I refer to is myself in this part of the text.
Then I thought about " goosebumps " I used to get when writing classwork in grade school. The teachers would open the windows on a cloudy day in the springtime. Cool air often keeps kids awake and irritable. From there on, I started thinking about certain medical dramas on television I like, which of course had me thinking of disease, suffering and pain, particulary when patients are most unable to convey exactly what is happening to them at specific moments.

When I started thinking about castles and the game of chess; it took me back to my previous poem Halifax, Montgomery. So I kept a conscious mind not to repeat myself from either that poem or any others.

The rest of it is more or less text I piece one after another to end the process. I thought the last three sentences don't really feel right in conjunction with the rest of the material, but rather than waste time continuing to rethink it sometimes gets me in the urge to start all over again from scratch - which often happens.
 
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