14. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

[hellaine]

The holes in my heart, filled up like so many footprints briefly left behind in the beach's sand

Comments

[disco_trash]

i can feel every nuance here. just so you know.

[savageparrot]

Envy (noun): The feeling I get every time I read your stuff and realize I can't write even a fraction as well.

Still rocking that magic turn of phrase I see. Don't stop.

[hellaine]

thank you :) i like to think that with everything i write, i learn a little bit more about what the fuck i am doing technically.

[hellaine]

thanks :) i think this whole story was about nothing but nuance so i'm glad it came across.

[antler_girl]

I really envy how good you can write. It all just seems so natural and fluent.

[hellaine]

thank you!

[xdronedx]

clearwater beach or treasure island?

[hellaine]

clearwater. we only spent a day there i think? i don't remember it super well because this was like five years ago or so but it was by or in sandkey park? and there were freaking lizards everywhere and i took like 809875 pictures of birds there haha. i should post them! i have a fetish for birds, if you can't tell.

[xdronedx]

i dont know where sand key park is. i dont really go to clearwater beach that often.

i said treasure island because its closer to where warped tour would have been.

[hellaine]

yah if i recalled it was a place called vinoy park? where we played. but we were all very early before noon bands so we usually spent the rest of the days in shenanigans time.

i talk about offdates in the story but we never had any offdates. i was only on in august, got picked up in pittsburgh and it was nonstop to the south from there.

i've taken a lot of liberties with timelines here, like i posted an orlando story before tampa, but in reality we were in tampa before we were in orlando but for the sake of some sort of character developement, i thought the orlando story fit in better before tampa and all the heinous shit that came after it.

[witchwife]

Excellent. Your imagery gives me something to aspire to.

Internal monologues? Accounts of dialogue? I'm there.
Awe inspiring imagery that casts a perfect picture of my location to my reader? I'm somewhat lacking in.

Can't wait to hear more.

[hellaine]

thanks. i'm trying!

[mr_endo]

You deleted the entry I was to reply to with this (second time you've done this to me >_<), so now it gets posted here.

(referring to your question about why people don't write anything "real" anymore)I think perhaps many people these days would rather immerse themselves in a world of their own creation, because the world they live in is often a scary place to be. This doesn't necessarily mean that the world they create doesn't have its basis in the reality of the writer

[hellaine]

yeah haha. a lot of 'real' entries i post i end up deleting after like 24 hours. sometimes i need to vent and sometimes i just prefer to feel like i am mysterious, i guess.

yeah, i mean, i have some ideas in my head for fantasy ideas and it's not that i'm against it or look down on it it's just... i guess i'm just shocked by how prevelant it is, at least in the circles i am in here on LJ.

[mr_endo]

I guess that's what happens when things like the Happry Potter and Twilight series become so popular, everyone and their mother is suddenly a fantasy writer.

[hellaine]

yeah, that's probably true. but you know what? i'm all for it. whatever gets the creative juices flowing.