EXCITING!

FUCK YEAH!  BAM!  and WHAM-BAM!

I am so FUCKING EXCITED right now I can't even capitalize my text enough to properly express it!  No interrabang does it enough justice!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

So I started blogging, as you may have read, to help cultivate a voice and then actively encouraged others to do the same.  My friend D, for instance, has one of the most unique voices and perspectives that I know!  It tickles me pink everytime she posts another entry!  be it lengthy or succinct (my favorite shorty was probably the one entitled 'Wetty') it is always, always, pure Danielle and for that it is brilliance!

Anywhooooo.  I started this Cedar Falls bullshit and the idea was sort of a sand-box!  The only rule to come play is:  Everybody has a Secret (inspired by Frank Warren's Post Secrets, and also, I'm not gunna lie, a little by the House tagline: Everybody Lies... lol.  Oh, speaking of, is anyone going to watch that new show that looks awful\delicious, Pretty Little Liars?  I think I'mma give it a try this week!)

So I start with trash in a hot tub and high dudgeon and shit, and then one morning I visit Danielle at the Palace and she's all like:  "Hey, I had the craziest dream and now I have the best idea for a story for Cedar Falls..."  YUP!  How phenomenal is that?  She tells me her idea and I almost come in my pants I'm so excited!  She is a natural storyteller-- her story lines and plans for her characters are delicious and murky and full of intrigue and complexities that I never, never, never could have dreamed up and I am so fucking excited!

Right off the bat she was super encouraging about this endeavor, about my writing fiction or just blogging, and for that I can't thank her enough!  Then she starts talking about how some professional authors sort of do this thing where they'll write books in other authors' series.  I'm not familiar but Danielle reads all the time so I take her word for it.  Like, especially in mystery or murder series' I guess?

So together we birthed the notion that other people should try writing vignettes and stories for CF.  AWESOME SAUCE RIGHT?!?!?!

So she did and they rocked my fucking socks off!  Visit them here, here, and here!  BAM!

So then HER ENTHUSIASM and provocativeness encouraged others!!  What?!  Woot Woot!

And today I am super pleased as punch to have you peep Guest Author 'Papi's awesomely gritty, visceral crime fest, and another installment from D which literally had me squeeling with excitement!! 

PLUS  reading those two made Aaron want to write another vignette for the story line he started about the disturbingly wholesome father-daughter murderer duo Walt&Clancy!  So he started that last night and it is already delicious!  

AND Andrea and I have decided to do a writing activity which may or may not be Cedar Falls related, where we send each other a first-line story starter and then run with it.  I started mine last night and am excited to finish it because it takes me out of the Delaney web of intrigue and, well, when you see the first line I think you'll know why I was so excited to write it! LOL.  Mine will still take place in Cedar Falls because, well, why the fuck not?  I'll post it as soon as it is done!  And Andrea?  Well, that's up to her, though I must say her near-daily blog is wicked fun, so can she be persuaded to share her fiction??  We won't force her, it's great enough that she's trying this experiment, but let's all cross our fingers that she'll surrender the mpiece up into the blogosphere for our greedy eyes!! :)

So the other person who shuld be contributing is EMMY, because, I know she's busy, but that girl has got a fertile and fantastic imagination and what a story teller!  So let's all get on her case to get writing.  I liked the story about the creep who hangs out outside the movie theatre Emmy.  You know what I mean. LOL.

And JULIA!!  Who has enough hilarious and entertaining real-life stories to write her fucking memoirs NOW-- YOU should do this!  You are wildly creative, inventive, and your voice, be it in acting, choreographing, directing, song-writing, or through your passion\art of PHOTOGRAPHY, your voice is soulful, penetrating, wise and whimsical.  Know what?  If I had to tell you to start somehwere I'd tell you to go out and take photos of random people, go home, look through them, let your imagination run wild and then start writing for someone you've captured in a picture.  That's a drama activity I'd do with students.  Give it a try!  Hell, I want to write for that gorgeous couple at the airport.  damn- they are right out of a movie, especially the way you shot them!!

And KIM?  Are you out there?  Write, Woman. We both know you have stories BUSTIN to get out!!

And Kerry?  Part of your new life really must include blogging\live journalling again, and maybe for fun you could write some intrigue for CF?  Maybe a piano teacher who has a dark secret... lol  or a Massage Therapist with a romance plotline?  Who knows?

So, YAY to taking the time to be creative, have fun and tell stories.  I feel like flying or jumping or skipping or orgasming!  LOL.  Sorry, how'd that last one slip in there?  whooopsie...

But really.  This is awesome and though I know Yelling and Papi will likely soon have to curtail their creative writing due to Baby's impending arrival, ( I lost my bet-- I was SURE she'd be born of Father's Day!) I hope they can still find some time to sneak off and get-out all their creative, disturbing, exciting, intruiging thoughts for all of us to read!

So to the writers out there and to those of you who think you aren't writers:  Get to writing bitches!  This shit is wicked fun and it's summer, for god's sake!  Get an idea and just START!  Remember, it isn't about perfection, DON'T get hung up on where the story will end up, just start TELLING IT!!

I still have no clue how my Jonah\Viola\Vaughan story is going to end, but that doesn't stop me from having a fucking blast with it!

Oh, and thanks again for being awesome!