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Douglas M. Laurent
chambers dict
Phrontistery on line site
Defoe dict
Tales by poe
Symbols by cooper
Phrontistery on line site
Defoe dict
Tales by poe
Symbols by cooper
Douglas M. Laurent
observe the small, the large, learn to see the unseen mix and match senses.... smell sound taste hearing and know humanity good bad and nil like there's no tomorrow patterns repeat are u a spatial or temporal thinker? best know know thyself
Douglas M. Laurent
editing final cuts of Cold Steel Eternity and Garden of the Dragons, vols. 2 and 3 of Valley of the Damned vol. 1 ('Halla series). also prepping massive poetry volume as well as hist/myth volume Martial Arts on Noah's Ark, oh yes they are there. ex:
To understand how extensive this is, consider the sharp observations of master martial historian Donn F. Draeger (1922-1982). Citing the Menangkabau tribe of Indonesia, a once powerful kingdom, today:
The Menangkabau are known as Orang Malāyo, or ‘Malāys,’ but their precise origin is unknown. Myths, fables, and quasi-historical records posit various possibilities. Annals and historical records of the Menangkabau are rare, but all deduce their origin from two brothers, Perapatisi-batang and Kei Tamanggungan, who were supposed to have been passengers on Noah’s Ark (Indonesia, p. 112).
Were these two cruise-setters Japheth (Perapatisi) and Ham (Tam), Noah’s sons? Their trademark handles seem to be etched into the streaming autonyms above.
see?
also, desperately looking for publishers who won't rake me and a saint of a secretary. i'm drowning. other than that I have about 20 books justy sitting here rotting away 'cuz I can't get to them
To understand how extensive this is, consider the sharp observations of master martial historian Donn F. Draeger (1922-1982). Citing the Menangkabau tribe of Indonesia, a once powerful kingdom, today:
The Menangkabau are known as Orang Malāyo, or ‘Malāys,’ but their precise origin is unknown. Myths, fables, and quasi-historical records posit various possibilities. Annals and historical records of the Menangkabau are rare, but all deduce their origin from two brothers, Perapatisi-batang and Kei Tamanggungan, who were supposed to have been passengers on Noah’s Ark (Indonesia, p. 112).
Were these two cruise-setters Japheth (Perapatisi) and Ham (Tam), Noah’s sons? Their trademark handles seem to be etched into the streaming autonyms above.
see?
also, desperately looking for publishers who won't rake me and a saint of a secretary. i'm drowning. other than that I have about 20 books justy sitting here rotting away 'cuz I can't get to them
Douglas M. Laurent
read Sherlock Holmes quotes pay attention to details. throw nothing away the word u cut may be the novel of tomorrow. know how your mind works, if its dyslexic like mine, learn to think and write sdrawkcab. Holmes would agree (Scarlet). 1-3 sentences per graph. build on it like bricks. only 1 thought per graph. know punctuation. study journalistic style (period) then u will edit well (period) see what I mean? that way u don't waste time and too, talk it out to yourself. words in mind are gooey and tangle linear dialogue cuts through.
Douglas M. Laurent
Druid Bitch Demon of Round Lake (edited version, well u did ask …)
Upon arriving to take care of my ailing dad, he said, “I saw an old woman in the corner dressed in a robe she looked as if she was eating something. I thought he was senile but a month later I met the old woman entity and when I saw her she stood and in a southern drawl looked at me and said, “We hate your *m guts, we’re going to cut your *m throat and there’s not a goddamn thing you can do about it.”
Upon arriving to take care of my ailing dad, he said, “I saw an old woman in the corner dressed in a robe she looked as if she was eating something. I thought he was senile but a month later I met the old woman entity and when I saw her she stood and in a southern drawl looked at me and said, “We hate your *m guts, we’re going to cut your *m throat and there’s not a goddamn thing you can do about it.”
Douglas M. Laurent
I use writing as a type of "Zen" vehicle in that I leave my cloggy rationale behind and let the stream of intuition flow as she sees fit. Sometimes the stream rages, at other times she is languid, and rocks in the stream, such as editing factors, just offer more curious bends of mind and word to work around on my alphabeta journey. So, I enjoy the flavors of my mind- pen, even though they may at times befuddle and cause frustration. It is then I study my conundrums of consonants and my vowel howls appreciating all the flavors of mind and soul they generate, as if I were a patron in an art gallery observing a picture. Words are mirrors. Hence, quilling is a liberating meditative state, each word, sentence, paragraph is as a puzzle to solve, and to transmit instantaneously one's original thought immediately to the paper as in calligraphy allows for hightened awareness and perceptive clarity one would not ordinarily have performing mental chores that require bulk rationalistic thought with thickerer words. In fact, my whole economy of thought pertaining to the writ is celerity and swiftness of thought, economical sparesness and the condensing of thoughts into as few words as possible, much as a Japanese Zen garden functions where "less is more" and therefore the fewer forms are worked by the mind deeply to their greatest potential and not spread out and watered down with frivolities. Like a Samurai sword, the sharper the word, the sharper the mind and the less work required to cut. Fat words only make one slow and chaffing.
Douglas M. Laurent
How do i deal with writer's block?
I talk to my soul aloud and it unlocks.
I speak my dreams unto heavenly ears,
And write of His heart He opens so dear.
They say, the best writing is with passion in mind,
This bespeaks the truth, for words define.
Mirrors of the soul, they do recollect,
And paint one's portrait in the mood that begets . . .
I talk to my soul aloud and it unlocks.
I speak my dreams unto heavenly ears,
And write of His heart He opens so dear.
They say, the best writing is with passion in mind,
This bespeaks the truth, for words define.
Mirrors of the soul, they do recollect,
And paint one's portrait in the mood that begets . . .
Douglas M. Laurent
When I was growing up I was rather consigned to my father's cob-web ridden basement where I worked out in martial arts 3-4 hours a day and read literatures from around the world. I did this for years while attending school and so I had ample time to study the masters, and peruse my soul. Sensei Shakespeare taught me how to do rhymes as his play scenes often have poetic flourishes at the end. And Master Dante gave me a vision of the unseen, so instilled with a passion for epic poetry and literature and from spiritual observations of daily life, I decided to see if I could write like my Tutors had so eloquently taught me. "Valley of the Damned" plus its two other existent sister volumes, are the products of my many varied realizations and emotions these masters so beautifully cultivated within my soul. Prose can only explain and describe. Poetry, on the other hand, elevates common daily life unto epic proportions that touch the very vaults of heaven.
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