First of all the problem is getting your butt in a chair. There is always dust to launder, plants to pick at, circles to drive in, dog hair to ball up, crumbs to make lining the counter… It never stops, the urge to be mundanely busy.
Even as a writing instructor for UBC Okanagan’s Continuing Studies I am welcoming the periods of timed writes. It calms me down and the voices in my head… like the siren’s call are carried further from my ship in the wind. And I am left with the writing voice speaking in my ear.
So in the last week, I have had the opportunity to write two pieces in timed or automatic writing periods. I will share them with you.
“Sister, sister,” Timmy called out following behind me. Catching up on his little legs, “Sister, sister.” I could hear his breathing, hear his fat little legs brushing against one another. The sound of the white corduroy swish, sweishing. His calling closer, “Sister, sister, wait for me.” His small fists were pinkly clenched.
He was closer. His voice excited, sad, catching me.
I turned and grabbed his hand. It was in my finters. I held tight. He began at the wrist like a toy as I pulled him.
Today it was too cold. The dark stain on the front of his pants was clinging.
It was too cold for him to wait.
“Hurry,” I said. I pulled my baby toward the house. It was too cold for him and I wanted him safe. I wanted him hidden away in the house. I wanted him to grow up and go away. And now he has.
I look at the family photo- the only one we have- his pants are white except for the dark stain.
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The cell phone droned in her purse like an angry, unseen beast. The warning growl converted to pulses of energy, restricted, encapsulated. The phone wanted to hook up to her like an IV feeding adrenaline into her veins, filling her with questions, injecting lists and plans. The beat of its throbbing heart filling the seconds left her with no open stretches of landscape. No where to rest.
In Europe, the camera will rest lovingly on a sweep of landscape not moving restlessly looking for a “plot” element or some symbol of the time. North American films are all about the collapsing of moments. The clock’s tyranny crushes the hero or heroine. Car crashes, the last minute reprieve at the airport, a letter handed over quickly between two passing people.. that split second that transforms everything.
European cinematography is about hang time. Distances spreading, events uneventful. Americans will leave a theatre complaining that nothing happened in the movie. Europe has had centuries of everything so that very little becomes nothing at all. One lifetime, one decision is miniscule and fate or foible must both be accepted with grace.
It is glacial time, the moving of its massive collective entity in European terms. In North America the trajectory is shorter, more voluable. An arrow released from the archer’s taunt fingers. Everything quick. It either hits the target or it tragically misses.
She thought if she were in Europe, the buzzing of the phone would be a non-event. People talk to one another from two blocks away about bread or belts. Everything is discussed. But here, she thought, the phone call might be a missed opportunity or a summons to action. Every ring is some form of 911.
Timed write above was on an open topic as my purse was moving around on a table gyrating to the silenced buzz.
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