The worst part about being a multi-talented person with lots of creative outlets for me is formatting. My brain is full of stories, themes and ideas and, well, that is DANDY. So let's just pick a random idea out of my brain- my, isn't it shiny? That Colleen, she is so IMAGINATIVE. What are you going to do with this shiny new idea Colleen?
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Well, maybe it's going to be comic. No... a poem? Too short, methinks. A novel? Screenplay? Mural? Theater production? Come on now, chose one! COMMIT ALREADY.
As a result a lot of my "Drafts" skip from format to format with the winds, much like my handwriting likes to switch from print to cursive in the middle of a word. Anyone else out there have this issue?
Friday, October 29, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
In Light of Current Reading, a Poem
I don't need nice things
fine things, expensive ones
I love me some cheap words
the gooey ones
that stick to cement
and drugstore paperbacks
bubblegum to theater seats
or bleachers or diner booths
they mean nothing more
than what they say
fine things, expensive ones
I love me some cheap words
the gooey ones
that stick to cement
and drugstore paperbacks
bubblegum to theater seats
or bleachers or diner booths
they mean nothing more
than what they say
(c) Colleen Rauch, October 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Power of a Well Stocked Dress-Up Bag
This morning I unearthed my blue pinstriped vest. One of the buttons is loose (it is a hand-me-down) but I have never bothered to fix it. It is one of my favorite articles of clothing, I can wear it with pants or with one of my school girl skirts and it will always look dashing. (At least in my mind.) This vest is my Tobias vest. I wear it and the silly musician I write about is just that much easier to access.
The vest is not the first article of clothing to "be" a character for me. For years I kept a pair of worn through shoes because they were Daphne's. I always have a green polo shirt somewhere for Blair. One shapeless, gigantic green sweater I wear around the house (it is really too beat up for anything else) when it is cold out inspired Sammy MacJay. Every pair of ballet shoes that wander into my life are Ryan. My closet is, in many ways, my character database. I do not NEED these clothes to write, but when I want that extra nearness and understanding I take them out.
Some things are characters that are not born yet. I have kept a blue and white stage-Victorian dress in my closet for years. I have written many things I like while wearing it, but never enough to know exactly who is wearing the dress. Similarly, I have a "Von Trap" sailor dress that keeps calling to me, then changing its mind.
I do not turn into my characters, mystically, by putting these items on. It just helps to know I am wearing something they would chose to wear. What sort of person wears a vest with a loose button and doesn't give a damn? Tobias. He probably could mend it, if he really wanted to, but he has much better things to do. Besides, it adds to his rag-shag appearance and therefor helps bring in some coin.
Anyways, I was just thinking about this as I get ready for work and thought I would post about it here.
The vest is not the first article of clothing to "be" a character for me. For years I kept a pair of worn through shoes because they were Daphne's. I always have a green polo shirt somewhere for Blair. One shapeless, gigantic green sweater I wear around the house (it is really too beat up for anything else) when it is cold out inspired Sammy MacJay. Every pair of ballet shoes that wander into my life are Ryan. My closet is, in many ways, my character database. I do not NEED these clothes to write, but when I want that extra nearness and understanding I take them out.
Some things are characters that are not born yet. I have kept a blue and white stage-Victorian dress in my closet for years. I have written many things I like while wearing it, but never enough to know exactly who is wearing the dress. Similarly, I have a "Von Trap" sailor dress that keeps calling to me, then changing its mind.
I do not turn into my characters, mystically, by putting these items on. It just helps to know I am wearing something they would chose to wear. What sort of person wears a vest with a loose button and doesn't give a damn? Tobias. He probably could mend it, if he really wanted to, but he has much better things to do. Besides, it adds to his rag-shag appearance and therefor helps bring in some coin.
Anyways, I was just thinking about this as I get ready for work and thought I would post about it here.
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