Das Hier #17
My name is Sutheran Kimf and I am an asshole, according to my fellow Societor Dalton Braxwell, who came in yesterday and impressed me with what he wrote, but not what he said about me.
Especially the part about wanting to beat me up like he was some kind of tough guy. We're both writers. Ain't neither one of us going to be good at fighting.
And right now, we're not doing well without Franklin Perry's contributions, so giving him the week off was a mistake because we can't do this without him.
So whether they like it or not, I am going to send an e-mail to him and ask him to never take a week off again. it's all about limiting him because yes, 80% of our writing being written as the journal writing of a quietly lived man is too much.
But 34% if we fail to write a million words is not enough. I think we should strive for 40% and succeed, because without his writing, we're only going to reach 958,111 words, which is an amazing amount that falls short of the threshold of excellence that is either pass or fail.
And right now, we are failing and my fellow writers need to do more. It can't just be me and Dalton who shoulder the load because between the two of us we've written 37% of the year's writing and that number continues to rise.
At this rate, how long before we're shouldering more than 40%?
Yes, yes, I know there are those of you rolling your eyes at me, demanding that I write more about Fodi the Fish and I don't have more to share with you at this time.
And I also don't have more to write about the alien who cruelly took over the body of the lummox who threatened Fodi before the alien emerged and took his body over and remade it, albeit only cosmetically at the time.
I'm back and still disappointed that my fellow Societors haven't shown up in the stats.
What's wrong Societors? me and Dalton can't do it all by ourselves.
I already said this?
Well, it bears repeating.
And no, I don't care if it causes an ugly e-mail. The others outside of Dalton deserve to feel the heat.
So at me boys, I don't care. In fact, I welcome it.
I'm not capable of doing what Petrie did, writing a million words in a single year, or draw as good as him, but I am going to do something that he never thought of, probably couldn't think of, is drawing on envelopes with the intent to package them for sale because who wouldn't want some cool art on their envelopes?
Exactly.
Maybe it is going to be me and Dalton who shoulder the load which means we're going to have to write 400,000 each to have any chance at giving the Societors a million word year.
Are you up for it Dalton? I know that I am. Though that means you'rte going to have to write more than once a week.
Can you do that?
I have faith in you, I hope that you have faith in yourself to make the time for more writing than once a week, because it's about carving out the time.
Other writers will disagree with me vehemently which I find personally disappointing, but that's on them to change if they ever see the light of "proper" reasoning.
Though Zane Grey, who was one of the two greatest writers of American Westerns forever ago, went months without writing and still wrote almost a hundred books, which is something that I will never do even though I write far more regularly than he does.
So for that and not wanting to be seen as an alieniating ass, I don't bring up my habit of writing regularly with any regularity.
At the end of the day, people are going to write at their frequency. And many of them will do more with their frequency than I do with mine.
Yes, it's clear that I have do better with my writing.
But so do do the other writers of our little Society that is bent on doing what Petrie did all on his own and write a million words.
Only if we're going to do this, my fellow members are going to have to step up.
What are you waiting for Societors?
Only now I have to look at myself in the mirror and admit to myself what am I waiting for as I careen towards the end of the day and wonder what's up as I have let up on the hard drive of words and still haven't written a thousand words this day when a failure to do that would be the first day in the whole of the decayear that any of us, either alone or in combination has failed to write that little.
That would be a shame because we vowed that we wouldn't let such a thing happen to us.
And here I am, on the edge of letting this happen when I've been riding the others hard about how they've done so the last thing that I should let happen is to write fewer than a thousand words, which is still a sad tally to be even thinking of when I've been so good to this point.
So I have to ask, what is up with that?
This is exactly the type of day that I need a story that I can lean on to bring my numbers up.
But I am not feeling any stories at all and I haven't gotten any e-mails or texts from the others so I have to keep writing until the end of the day so that we don't fall totally off the pace.
Though I could say futt it because I am feeling the pressure to write and it feels like they aren't doing enough for us to millionize 2020 like Petrie millionized 2019.
The fact that he did it all by his own darn self is truly amazing,
Damn is it possible that Petrie is a special kind of writer? Even though he's never amounted to anything as a writer outside of that and writing each day for forever and a day.
We have to put our heads together and get our act...
Together? That's the word that I want to use, but two of them in such a close proximity just sounds wrong.
I'm floundering aren't I?
If only I had some Fodi to break this up.
Or some other story of course. That would work.
But if I don't keep at it, this will be the least written day because no one else but Dalton has shown up in days.
And no amount of nagging them has gotten the result that I want, which is one of them showing up and laying some words down like they want to help me and Dalton shoulder the load in a millionized year.
I don't even have Nos Glorieux to write about either as they are on an extended break where they can't lose. Well, accept for ground on the tough task of getting back into a playoff position since they are trailing the last position badly at the moment.
And watching some of their better moments in the recent past is not much cause to write a lot either.
All this to say that it's not going to happen is it? The Societors are going to fail to write 2020+ words in a single day for only the second time this decayear because I know that I don't have it and no one else has signalled their intent to join me in the having written column today.
I hate being this empty. And writing so much about writing because I have more stories inside of me than just Fodi, but I can't seem to find one of them.
It's like I'm a diver who's taken a dive into the ocean with the aim of taking pictures of fish and can't find even one.
If this was a movie, I'd end up getting eaten by a seas monster with a splurt of blood exploding out of its mouth with a satisfying crunch.
Or would it be a big ole shark that was just taking a let's see what this is kind of bite, that leaves me gushing like a geyser as I slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean because if I ever got bitten by a shark, I know that I would die.
And would maybe even want to die because I don't want to live life without an arm or leg.
Yes, I know that says somethign about me, but it is what it is.
Okay, this is almost depressing and I don't like to do depressing.
Maybe it's time that I stopped writing for the day because it's the final hour of the day and I am nowhere near the camp at the base of the mountain, that we all want to strive for each day, by hook or by crook, which is to say be one or more of us.
And lately, it's been one of us.
Mostly me. I need more help than just the goodly work that Dalton has been able to put in these last two days that he's been available to the cause.
Are you listening guys?
Don't just tag in Franklin Perry either. Where's Brayden White with Anthanys? And lest I forget, where's Halston Bruuthe with the poetry?
Are you even reading what I'm writing so you can feel ashamed of yourself for not showing up for days?
You aren't are you?
Well, what are you going to do if I don't show up tomorrow like I did today? To be sure, I'm going to show up in one, maybe two quarters of the day, but you can't expect me to show up in three or four.
In fact, I won't! I promise you, you won't be seeing me here in the afternoon or night. So one or more of you better step the futt up or our first failed day is going to be on you, not me or Dalton, you.
And in case you think that I'm going to bang out 1000+ words in the morning quarters so that we at least make it out of the level that we all swore not to sink to, that's not going to happen. My part can't be the greatest each day. Okay?
So which one of you is going to show up?
I'm counting on you Brayden White, you're the one who can bring us the joy that we need. You can carry the afternoon right, which will let you go and see the movie because it's Tuesday and you like to watch movies then.
Though since you ain't pitched in since Friday of last week, you should skip the watching of a movie this week unless you actually write like you gave a damn because you said that you always find the time to write.
Three days without a single word doesn't back that up.
Are you sick? Tell me what is wrong? If you don't tell me what's wrong, how can I help you?
And no Halston, I'm not forgetting you. there's no expectation that you'll lay the smack down on the day like me, Dalton or Brayden can, but you can show up and pitch in with a few hundred words a day since you bragged about being able to come up with verse at the drop of the hat.
Consider this me dropping the hat okay? What's you answer? And don't come at me with the comeback that you are only going to write story poetry. That's just an excuse. or if you can't escape that trap, then come up with a story that ends when the poetry of that day is done.
Or are you not writer enough to come up with such a story inside your ridiculous framework?
If so...
No, I can't say that can I.
Now I'm glad that none of you are reading my work because of what I just suggested.
That would not go over well.
Especially since Petrie used poetry as part of his millionized 2019 so we should use it too.
At least that made sense when we gathered, online of course, since we don't live near each other to meet in person.
Now I'm doubting how helpful he can be to our goodly cause.
But be well with yourself right?
Pay no mind to my doubts.
Charles Petrie
Date
01-20-20
Time
10:45-11:59=74, 17:39-17:59=20, 19:50-23:59=249
343 Minutes
Especially the part about wanting to beat me up like he was some kind of tough guy. We're both writers. Ain't neither one of us going to be good at fighting.
And right now, we're not doing well without Franklin Perry's contributions, so giving him the week off was a mistake because we can't do this without him.
So whether they like it or not, I am going to send an e-mail to him and ask him to never take a week off again. it's all about limiting him because yes, 80% of our writing being written as the journal writing of a quietly lived man is too much.
But 34% if we fail to write a million words is not enough. I think we should strive for 40% and succeed, because without his writing, we're only going to reach 958,111 words, which is an amazing amount that falls short of the threshold of excellence that is either pass or fail.
And right now, we are failing and my fellow writers need to do more. It can't just be me and Dalton who shoulder the load because between the two of us we've written 37% of the year's writing and that number continues to rise.
At this rate, how long before we're shouldering more than 40%?
Yes, yes, I know there are those of you rolling your eyes at me, demanding that I write more about Fodi the Fish and I don't have more to share with you at this time.
And I also don't have more to write about the alien who cruelly took over the body of the lummox who threatened Fodi before the alien emerged and took his body over and remade it, albeit only cosmetically at the time.
I'm back and still disappointed that my fellow Societors haven't shown up in the stats.
What's wrong Societors? me and Dalton can't do it all by ourselves.
I already said this?
Well, it bears repeating.
And no, I don't care if it causes an ugly e-mail. The others outside of Dalton deserve to feel the heat.
So at me boys, I don't care. In fact, I welcome it.
I'm not capable of doing what Petrie did, writing a million words in a single year, or draw as good as him, but I am going to do something that he never thought of, probably couldn't think of, is drawing on envelopes with the intent to package them for sale because who wouldn't want some cool art on their envelopes?
Exactly.
Maybe it is going to be me and Dalton who shoulder the load which means we're going to have to write 400,000 each to have any chance at giving the Societors a million word year.
Are you up for it Dalton? I know that I am. Though that means you'rte going to have to write more than once a week.
Can you do that?
I have faith in you, I hope that you have faith in yourself to make the time for more writing than once a week, because it's about carving out the time.
Other writers will disagree with me vehemently which I find personally disappointing, but that's on them to change if they ever see the light of "proper" reasoning.
Though Zane Grey, who was one of the two greatest writers of American Westerns forever ago, went months without writing and still wrote almost a hundred books, which is something that I will never do even though I write far more regularly than he does.
So for that and not wanting to be seen as an alieniating ass, I don't bring up my habit of writing regularly with any regularity.
At the end of the day, people are going to write at their frequency. And many of them will do more with their frequency than I do with mine.
Yes, it's clear that I have do better with my writing.
But so do do the other writers of our little Society that is bent on doing what Petrie did all on his own and write a million words.
Only if we're going to do this, my fellow members are going to have to step up.
What are you waiting for Societors?
Only now I have to look at myself in the mirror and admit to myself what am I waiting for as I careen towards the end of the day and wonder what's up as I have let up on the hard drive of words and still haven't written a thousand words this day when a failure to do that would be the first day in the whole of the decayear that any of us, either alone or in combination has failed to write that little.
That would be a shame because we vowed that we wouldn't let such a thing happen to us.
And here I am, on the edge of letting this happen when I've been riding the others hard about how they've done so the last thing that I should let happen is to write fewer than a thousand words, which is still a sad tally to be even thinking of when I've been so good to this point.
So I have to ask, what is up with that?
This is exactly the type of day that I need a story that I can lean on to bring my numbers up.
But I am not feeling any stories at all and I haven't gotten any e-mails or texts from the others so I have to keep writing until the end of the day so that we don't fall totally off the pace.
Though I could say futt it because I am feeling the pressure to write and it feels like they aren't doing enough for us to millionize 2020 like Petrie millionized 2019.
The fact that he did it all by his own darn self is truly amazing,
Damn is it possible that Petrie is a special kind of writer? Even though he's never amounted to anything as a writer outside of that and writing each day for forever and a day.
We have to put our heads together and get our act...
Together? That's the word that I want to use, but two of them in such a close proximity just sounds wrong.
I'm floundering aren't I?
If only I had some Fodi to break this up.
Or some other story of course. That would work.
But if I don't keep at it, this will be the least written day because no one else but Dalton has shown up in days.
And no amount of nagging them has gotten the result that I want, which is one of them showing up and laying some words down like they want to help me and Dalton shoulder the load in a millionized year.
I don't even have Nos Glorieux to write about either as they are on an extended break where they can't lose. Well, accept for ground on the tough task of getting back into a playoff position since they are trailing the last position badly at the moment.
And watching some of their better moments in the recent past is not much cause to write a lot either.
All this to say that it's not going to happen is it? The Societors are going to fail to write 2020+ words in a single day for only the second time this decayear because I know that I don't have it and no one else has signalled their intent to join me in the having written column today.
I hate being this empty. And writing so much about writing because I have more stories inside of me than just Fodi, but I can't seem to find one of them.
It's like I'm a diver who's taken a dive into the ocean with the aim of taking pictures of fish and can't find even one.
If this was a movie, I'd end up getting eaten by a seas monster with a splurt of blood exploding out of its mouth with a satisfying crunch.
Or would it be a big ole shark that was just taking a let's see what this is kind of bite, that leaves me gushing like a geyser as I slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean because if I ever got bitten by a shark, I know that I would die.
And would maybe even want to die because I don't want to live life without an arm or leg.
Yes, I know that says somethign about me, but it is what it is.
Okay, this is almost depressing and I don't like to do depressing.
Maybe it's time that I stopped writing for the day because it's the final hour of the day and I am nowhere near the camp at the base of the mountain, that we all want to strive for each day, by hook or by crook, which is to say be one or more of us.
And lately, it's been one of us.
Mostly me. I need more help than just the goodly work that Dalton has been able to put in these last two days that he's been available to the cause.
Are you listening guys?
Don't just tag in Franklin Perry either. Where's Brayden White with Anthanys? And lest I forget, where's Halston Bruuthe with the poetry?
Are you even reading what I'm writing so you can feel ashamed of yourself for not showing up for days?
You aren't are you?
Well, what are you going to do if I don't show up tomorrow like I did today? To be sure, I'm going to show up in one, maybe two quarters of the day, but you can't expect me to show up in three or four.
In fact, I won't! I promise you, you won't be seeing me here in the afternoon or night. So one or more of you better step the futt up or our first failed day is going to be on you, not me or Dalton, you.
And in case you think that I'm going to bang out 1000+ words in the morning quarters so that we at least make it out of the level that we all swore not to sink to, that's not going to happen. My part can't be the greatest each day. Okay?
So which one of you is going to show up?
I'm counting on you Brayden White, you're the one who can bring us the joy that we need. You can carry the afternoon right, which will let you go and see the movie because it's Tuesday and you like to watch movies then.
Though since you ain't pitched in since Friday of last week, you should skip the watching of a movie this week unless you actually write like you gave a damn because you said that you always find the time to write.
Three days without a single word doesn't back that up.
Are you sick? Tell me what is wrong? If you don't tell me what's wrong, how can I help you?
And no Halston, I'm not forgetting you. there's no expectation that you'll lay the smack down on the day like me, Dalton or Brayden can, but you can show up and pitch in with a few hundred words a day since you bragged about being able to come up with verse at the drop of the hat.
Consider this me dropping the hat okay? What's you answer? And don't come at me with the comeback that you are only going to write story poetry. That's just an excuse. or if you can't escape that trap, then come up with a story that ends when the poetry of that day is done.
Or are you not writer enough to come up with such a story inside your ridiculous framework?
If so...
No, I can't say that can I.
Now I'm glad that none of you are reading my work because of what I just suggested.
That would not go over well.
Especially since Petrie used poetry as part of his millionized 2019 so we should use it too.
At least that made sense when we gathered, online of course, since we don't live near each other to meet in person.
Now I'm doubting how helpful he can be to our goodly cause.
But be well with yourself right?
Pay no mind to my doubts.
Charles Petrie
Date
01-20-20
Time
10:45-11:59=74, 17:39-17:59=20, 19:50-23:59=249
343 Minutes
Word Count
327+129+1653=2109
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