Wednesday, June 5, 2013

IntShoWriMo 2013: DAY 5

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Today’s Prompt:
You get to your studio to develop pictures from the hour you spent in the park. All of the pictures turn out well, except for a select few. In six photographs, there is a man in the frame. Something seems slightly off, and rather strange about each picture. Who is he and what is weird about the photographs?
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Link for Day 5: DAY 5: The Picture Inside the Picture Word Count: 2,102

I tried to write the man in the picture off as an assassin who, while stalking some rich dude’s family out on a picnic, is accidentally captured by a freelance photographer at dubious angles. But I thought hell, I don’t have the time to draw up a gun fight, not today, phew, into the wastebasket.

Option two, I thought, what if the man’s alien? There’s a part in my story where two freelance photographers go for a walk at the beach and end up snapping photos. The idea was to replace the man with a woman on the beach and make it appear like there’s more than one of his kind on earth and somehow, these guy’s tools are the only thing that can see them. Then I thought, That’s way too much energy. Just stick to the prompt, will ya? Phew, into the wastebasket.

Now, here’s something I actually did do for a change.
I used the story to explain the human condition. Sometimes, we encounter circumstances we can only come to grasps with by admitting our inadequacies as humans. A lot of stuff happens around us that are beyond our abilities to control or comprehend and the only way to prevail is by learning to thrive regardless of it.

The characters in this story never ID’d the man in the picture. But they carried on with their lives and lived like they gotta live.

Read the full story here, DAY 5: The Picture Inside the Picture

Keep your pen bleeding.


Akpan


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