I have to find the motivation to write or something. I have to put my negative thoughts somewhere before they eat me alive.
SJ Blues
Patrice Lumumba
E. Writer What about him?
Alex Morton He was a force for Pan-African unity and a true freedom fighter for the Congo. But the colonialist forces at the time, primarily Belgium, were against him, partially because a lot of his support came from the Soviet Union. He was, for a time Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but opposing forces pushed him from office, arrested and beat him and eventually placed him in a locale that was entirely unsafe for Lumumba and he was assassinated. (Belgium had granted Congo its independence, but only with a government of its own choosing.)
E. Writer Lumumba's story was sad and showed the hypocrisy of the west, but I wanted to ascertain what SJ is talking about. This is suspiciously... political.
E. Writer Does it have a blue light filter?
SJ Blues It does but I turned it off the day I set it up
Alex Morton That sounds like my reaction to IMAX movies. I've gone to an IMAX theater a couple of times and had to leave because it made me dizzy.
SJ Blues Yeah, I've only gone to one Imax movie and it was a miserable experience for this exact reason
E. Writer I can't remember my Imax experience. The only time I felt dizzy was when I went to see the first Transformers movie and it was so packed, my family was in the front row, and to the site. So hard to see what was happening on screen. I was so dizzy.
Eugenio Cappuccio Virus?
SJ Blues A neurological thing, not a virus like the flu
Eugenio Cappuccio Well, here’s hoping you get well soon…
E. Writer Or channel those thoughts into an incredibly powerful story.
Eugenio Cappuccio Just dit down and begin to write, start anywhere & the Muse will answer..,,
Eugenio Cappuccio Sit down, not dit down.
Roy Scarbrough Browse some images of old paintings. Pick one that you can look at for five minutes, and nothing else. Then write down what you see and how the image works on you. The good ones are kind of machine that will do some of the work for you.
Alex Morton For what it's worth, I start my writing day with a warmup that is just letting my fingers type whatever comes out, without thinking about it. It's like a dog shaking off water after a swim. I write every day, with the goal of 1000 words. Sometimes it's absolute crap, but it always leads to something. My motto is ... let it fly ... you can always edit down. Some of my best work comes out that way.