Shorts
Shorts
I just want to give a brief outline as to why and what I see this subject heading being about. Short stories. That’s it really. Not much of an article it is? Ok here comes the slightly longer version of why and what.
What the subject heading “Short Stories” is about for me is easier to explain. The idea is to write stories that I have floating around in my head and try to “capture them” not as some major pieces of prose but as a story a saga. The whole thing shouldn’t take more than half an hour to read, somewhere between 3000 – 5000 words. Remember the TV show “The tales of the unexpected” by Roland Dahl. It was a half an hour show with a story that always had a twist to them. The books were better but I first saw the TV show and then got into reading his text.
Well that kind of length, that’s what I would like to find, about twenty minutes to half any hour. I’d like a twist, but not the “Roland Dahl twists”, not like that at all. More like a roll than a twist, something that makes you laugh a bit and think bit, nothing clever like I didn’t see that coming twist. That is like a card trick, you just don’t know how it is done. No I want the stories to be simple but compelling in some way.
I want to use saga as a way of talking, story as communication, not just entertainment. This fits into the Nordic Mythology idea we have talked about, making up stories to explain things and using the form of “saga” to express that. The stories will be set in the now, these are new stories about “here-now”, things people can or could do. They are all made up in my head. I will use things I know about, things I have personal been involved in as a base jump for a story. So the story is fiction not biographical even if I write in first person singular, (I did this or I did that). That is important not to mix up fiction with what people believe to be reality. So one last time, these are works of fiction that have “backgrounds of reality” to make them more seem more contemporary.
Why write them now and why in the context of the website? Two good questions, I’ll start with the second part first. This website or blogg, or whatever it is called, it about lots of things. “How 2 die”, how two people share the journey together. It is also about “How to die”, how the process of transition from living to being dead works, from start to end. All sorts of things you can do, on all levels, from the most practical till the most spiritual, emotionally creativity and physically. It is also about How to live. Because as long as you are not actually dead of your terminal illness you are still legally alive.
The way I see it, is this is a perfect time in my life for me to start with something new. Partly because I have to, I can no longer paint because it is physical to hard for me, I have written a book so I know what entails and I need to be able to work on short-term projects, as we must take one day at a time. Which is not the easiest thing to learn, it takes practice to get it right. And as it happened while joking with Elsa about something on one of our walks we got the idea that it could be funny. Since then several people have given me brilliant ideas for short stories so I save them in file with maybe only a name. But I have a few building up that I can just pick up and work with when ever. So I’d like to thank my friends for some of the ideas you have been giving me, hope you see them in the stories and laugh when you remember what you wrote or said, I pick up all the bits and pieces you throw my way.
In the long run if you have something you want to do, you want to learn something new you express the basic desire to live, which is more likely to, affects you energy toward a positive perspective on the situation than start to focus on the negative. When I say “negative energy” I mean things like depression and panic, not sadness or sorrow. Sadness and Sorrow are a big part of the process and should be a big part of all the activities you work on as much as Joy and Happiness. It is not about kidding yourself or anyone else that this journey is going anywhere else than where it is going.
So I hope you enjoy the stories for what they are.
Rob
I just want to give a brief outline as to why and what I see this subject heading being about. Short stories. That’s it really. Not much of an article it is? Ok here comes the slightly longer version of why and what.
What the subject heading “Short Stories” is about for me is easier to explain. The idea is to write stories that I have floating around in my head and try to “capture them” not as some major pieces of prose but as a story a saga. The whole thing shouldn’t take more than half an hour to read, somewhere between 3000 – 5000 words. Remember the TV show “The tales of the unexpected” by Roland Dahl. It was a half an hour show with a story that always had a twist to them. The books were better but I first saw the TV show and then got into reading his text.
Well that kind of length, that’s what I would like to find, about twenty minutes to half any hour. I’d like a twist, but not the “Roland Dahl twists”, not like that at all. More like a roll than a twist, something that makes you laugh a bit and think bit, nothing clever like I didn’t see that coming twist. That is like a card trick, you just don’t know how it is done. No I want the stories to be simple but compelling in some way.
I want to use saga as a way of talking, story as communication, not just entertainment. This fits into the Nordic Mythology idea we have talked about, making up stories to explain things and using the form of “saga” to express that. The stories will be set in the now, these are new stories about “here-now”, things people can or could do. They are all made up in my head. I will use things I know about, things I have personal been involved in as a base jump for a story. So the story is fiction not biographical even if I write in first person singular, (I did this or I did that). That is important not to mix up fiction with what people believe to be reality. So one last time, these are works of fiction that have “backgrounds of reality” to make them more seem more contemporary.
Why write them now and why in the context of the website? Two good questions, I’ll start with the second part first. This website or blogg, or whatever it is called, it about lots of things. “How 2 die”, how two people share the journey together. It is also about “How to die”, how the process of transition from living to being dead works, from start to end. All sorts of things you can do, on all levels, from the most practical till the most spiritual, emotionally creativity and physically. It is also about How to live. Because as long as you are not actually dead of your terminal illness you are still legally alive.
The way I see it, is this is a perfect time in my life for me to start with something new. Partly because I have to, I can no longer paint because it is physical to hard for me, I have written a book so I know what entails and I need to be able to work on short-term projects, as we must take one day at a time. Which is not the easiest thing to learn, it takes practice to get it right. And as it happened while joking with Elsa about something on one of our walks we got the idea that it could be funny. Since then several people have given me brilliant ideas for short stories so I save them in file with maybe only a name. But I have a few building up that I can just pick up and work with when ever. So I’d like to thank my friends for some of the ideas you have been giving me, hope you see them in the stories and laugh when you remember what you wrote or said, I pick up all the bits and pieces you throw my way.
In the long run if you have something you want to do, you want to learn something new you express the basic desire to live, which is more likely to, affects you energy toward a positive perspective on the situation than start to focus on the negative. When I say “negative energy” I mean things like depression and panic, not sadness or sorrow. Sadness and Sorrow are a big part of the process and should be a big part of all the activities you work on as much as Joy and Happiness. It is not about kidding yourself or anyone else that this journey is going anywhere else than where it is going.
So I hope you enjoy the stories for what they are.
Rob
posted by rob at 6:43 AM
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