“If NONE of us are stronger, then how can we give assistance, to those of us who life’s seen fit to offer some resistance.”
~ Lucas Bright
Last Friday I scattered a whole lotta rhyme, that was penned out, then pinned up and penned for a time.
I suppose I was seeking a suitable stage, before I let little Lucas leap out from his cage.
True, I was hoping he’d make it to print; my words plus some pictures, both making a mint.
But really, that’s silly. I don’t have to sell, every idea I draw from the well.
Lucas is limber with language he’s learned. Spitting specifics with syllables burned.
Though he will not be dropping down words every day, I’ve invited Lucas to come out and play.
I’ve offered a spot as occasional host. He said he’d love to produce a periodic post.
So we shook hands in my mind, then he disappeared. Now here is some air, that I’d like to have cleared.
When I rose last Friday, my inbox was FAT with “I do not believe that a child wrote that!”
I never intended for people to think that Lucas existed outside of a wink.
When fans aren’t familiar with your form of fiction, it’s difficult to diddle around with your diction.
But writers should seek to revamp their voices, to amplify, mushroom and multiply choices.
I can do that when scribing a page in my book, but this blog, well it’s holding a whole different hook.
So I’ll say it again, little Lucas is fake, but he gives me a different perspective to take.
He can be loud, and a bit unafraid. He hasn’t yet made the decisions I’ve made.
He can ask questions that I never would, because he is standing where I’ve never stood.
He makes me think, though I thought of him first. I give him breath, but I’m well reimbursed.
Let’s imagine that Lucas is sitting in class, scribbling a note he’s now ready to pass.
“Don’t look now,” it says, “but my teacher’s real mad. She knows I’m busting rhymes while I’m with Writer Dad.
Writer Dad
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In my years as an educator, I’ve met many Lucas and at one point I too was one…
Nice!
Chriss last blog post..The Economy, The Environment, My Children
In my years as an educator, I’ve met many Lucas and at one point I too was one…
Nice!
Chriss last blog post..The Economy, The Environment, My Children
In my years as an educator, I’ve met many Lucas and at one point I too was one…
Nice!
Chriss last blog post..The Economy, The Environment, My Children
“So I’ll say it again, little Lucas is fake, but he gives me a different perspective to take.”
Lucas looks like a swell guy. President Herbert would love to get together with Lucas for a hot cup of coffee… oh wait: Lucas isn’t real.
Nevermind.
Lucas is cool. But he isn’t real?! That’s no fun.
I’m super happy the residents of the P.I. Universe are real.
Bamboo Forests last blog post..Halloweelection Roundup
“So I’ll say it again, little Lucas is fake, but he gives me a different perspective to take.”
Lucas looks like a swell guy. President Herbert would love to get together with Lucas for a hot cup of coffee… oh wait: Lucas isn’t real.
Nevermind.
Lucas is cool. But he isn’t real?! That’s no fun.
I’m super happy the residents of the P.I. Universe are real.
Bamboo Forests last blog post..Halloweelection Roundup
“So I’ll say it again, little Lucas is fake, but he gives me a different perspective to take.”
Lucas looks like a swell guy. President Herbert would love to get together with Lucas for a hot cup of coffee… oh wait: Lucas isn’t real.
Nevermind.
Lucas is cool. But he isn’t real?! That’s no fun.
I’m super happy the residents of the P.I. Universe are real.
Bamboo Forests last blog post..Halloweelection Roundup
Taking the perspective of a child is awesome. Children have unbelievable thoughts and ideas and they speak without disgression. I like your Lucas character. He speaks honestly like a child, but with the language and wisdom of an adult. Fiction is the best, even as a reader, because you get jump into anyone’s mind and escape and relate for the moment. Thanks Writer Dad!!
PS I wish this comments section had spell check..so excuse my poor spelling. I spell like a third grader.
Taking the perspective of a child is awesome. Children have unbelievable thoughts and ideas and they speak without disgression. I like your Lucas character. He speaks honestly like a child, but with the language and wisdom of an adult. Fiction is the best, even as a reader, because you get jump into anyone’s mind and escape and relate for the moment. Thanks Writer Dad!!
PS I wish this comments section had spell check..so excuse my poor spelling. I spell like a third grader.
Taking the perspective of a child is awesome. Children have unbelievable thoughts and ideas and they speak without disgression. I like your Lucas character. He speaks honestly like a child, but with the language and wisdom of an adult. Fiction is the best, even as a reader, because you get jump into anyone’s mind and escape and relate for the moment. Thanks Writer Dad!!
PS I wish this comments section had spell check..so excuse my poor spelling. I spell like a third grader.
Did you know a rapper named Lucas created an album in the 1990s called “Lucas with the Lid Off?”
That’s what I thought you were referencing. Hah!
Ari Herzogs last blog post..Social Media Advice: Connect and Empower
Did you know a rapper named Lucas created an album in the 1990s called “Lucas with the Lid Off?”
That’s what I thought you were referencing. Hah!
Ari Herzogs last blog post..Social Media Advice: Connect and Empower
Did you know a rapper named Lucas created an album in the 1990s called “Lucas with the Lid Off?”
That’s what I thought you were referencing. Hah!
Ari Herzogs last blog post..Social Media Advice: Connect and Empower
Kimmelin: “Even more so, I pity those who lack the opportunity to read your prose, your poetry and your gutsy use of language, dialect and mental meanderings!” Hopefully, we’ll be well on our way to correcting the misfortune soon. : > )
You are courageous for going the self publishing route. It’s a possibility I’m far from ruling out, but am a long ways from ready to tackle. Thanks for appreciating what I do. You and your other half are both awesome.
Lance: Was I anything like him? Yes, a little, but not entirely. I had his love of language, and his curiosity, but I didn’t have his confidence. I was a lot like him in class though. I can’t say I got on well with too many of my teachers.
Chris: Thanks, Chris. Daisy’s favorites were always the Lucas’s.
Bamboo: Lucas for treasurer! He lost the spot in student council by a single vote.
Karen: You are welcome Karen, and you spell just fine!
Ari: I did. It’s where I got the title, which is about a billion times better than the first one that I had, and am too embarrassed to repeat.
Kimmelin: “Even more so, I pity those who lack the opportunity to read your prose, your poetry and your gutsy use of language, dialect and mental meanderings!” Hopefully, we’ll be well on our way to correcting the misfortune soon. : > )
You are courageous for going the self publishing route. It’s a possibility I’m far from ruling out, but am a long ways from ready to tackle. Thanks for appreciating what I do. You and your other half are both awesome.
Lance: Was I anything like him? Yes, a little, but not entirely. I had his love of language, and his curiosity, but I didn’t have his confidence. I was a lot like him in class though. I can’t say I got on well with too many of my teachers.
Chris: Thanks, Chris. Daisy’s favorites were always the Lucas’s.
Bamboo: Lucas for treasurer! He lost the spot in student council by a single vote.
Karen: You are welcome Karen, and you spell just fine!
Ari: I did. It’s where I got the title, which is about a billion times better than the first one that I had, and am too embarrassed to repeat.
Kimmelin: “Even more so, I pity those who lack the opportunity to read your prose, your poetry and your gutsy use of language, dialect and mental meanderings!” Hopefully, we’ll be well on our way to correcting the misfortune soon. : > )
You are courageous for going the self publishing route. It’s a possibility I’m far from ruling out, but am a long ways from ready to tackle. Thanks for appreciating what I do. You and your other half are both awesome.
Lance: Was I anything like him? Yes, a little, but not entirely. I had his love of language, and his curiosity, but I didn’t have his confidence. I was a lot like him in class though. I can’t say I got on well with too many of my teachers.
Chris: Thanks, Chris. Daisy’s favorites were always the Lucas’s.
Bamboo: Lucas for treasurer! He lost the spot in student council by a single vote.
Karen: You are welcome Karen, and you spell just fine!
Ari: I did. It’s where I got the title, which is about a billion times better than the first one that I had, and am too embarrassed to repeat.
Yo, Writer Dad-
“Word.”
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Yo, Writer Dad-
“Word.”
malathionmans last blog post..Thanks Dad
Hi WD, I just got an incredibly wacky result using CommentLuv, so I’m trying here to see if it was just a minor computer elf…
See it there
http://www.remarkable-communication.com/dumb-small-business-4/#comment-1269
I promise I don’t know a word of Polish but Bandera – and that’s because it means the same in Spanish -
Miguel de Luiss last blog post..Let your creativity flow
Hi WD, I just got an incredibly wacky result using CommentLuv, so I’m trying here to see if it was just a minor computer elf…
See it there
http://www.remarkable-communication.com/dumb-small-business-4/#comment-1269
I promise I don’t know a word of Polish but Bandera – and that’s because it means the same in Spanish -
Miguel de Luiss last blog post..Let your creativity flow
An interesting and alternative ego, I shall read on.
Denguys last blog post..Should I Assemble?
An interesting and alternative ego, I shall read on.
Denguys last blog post..Should I Assemble?
Hi Writer Dad – I find it amazing how (it appears) you can so easily write from the perspective of another person. It’s no wonder some thought Lucas was real.
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Hi Writer Dad – I find it amazing how (it appears) you can so easily write from the perspective of another person. It’s no wonder some thought Lucas was real.
Barbara Swaffords last blog post..NSNBOTWs – 2 Gals From Down Under
When I am zapping hrough the Internet and glance to a Comment on the wall that proclaims: “I love Lucas”, I pull over and stop for a closer look.
My sister, Colleen, once sent me a newspaper article from Portland, Oregon on Danny Lucas out there. It seems he saw Danny Lucas in the phone book and mailed him a Christmas card, signed Danny Lucas.
The following year, the same card was sent to the original Danny Lucas, signed by the new Danny Lucas.
The newspaper reported that TWELVE Danny Lucas’ were sending the same card to one another every year. Colleen wrote me and said: “Only a Danny Lucas could do something like this….Merry Christmas”.
I never sent Danny a card from the Eastern USA, but I did move to Portland for a while. There are indeed a significant quantity of Danny Lucas’ grouped out there in the “Oreegun”, “Orgun”, “Oruhgun” area. No one there can decide how to pronounce their state, but they do take pride in announcing your pronounciation is incorrect.
It gives me great pleasure to send Colleen a Christmas article that includes “I love Lucas” and “Lucas With The Lid Off” therein. She will agree with…….BOTH!
In the Indiana Jones series of movies, with Sean Connery shot in the stomach to induce Indiana to seek the elixer water that his dad must drink, or die, he encounters thousands of chalices of water to choose. One sip from any chalice but the saving water chalice, leads to death. Indiana grabs and sips and saves dad too. A guru appears and exclaims to Harrison Ford: “You have chosen wisely”.
I recall that scene as I read of Lucas in Writer Dad, and splendid comments on Lucas from everyone in this highly educated group, and I now proclaim, by authority granted in me as Danny Lucas (a real one) :
“Writer Dad, YOU have chosen wisely”.
I shall return.
Best regards,
Danny Lucas
When I am zapping hrough the Internet and glance to a Comment on the wall that proclaims: “I love Lucas”, I pull over and stop for a closer look.
My sister, Colleen, once sent me a newspaper article from Portland, Oregon on Danny Lucas out there. It seems he saw Danny Lucas in the phone book and mailed him a Christmas card, signed Danny Lucas.
The following year, the same card was sent to the original Danny Lucas, signed by the new Danny Lucas.
The newspaper reported that TWELVE Danny Lucas’ were sending the same card to one another every year. Colleen wrote me and said: “Only a Danny Lucas could do something like this….Merry Christmas”.
I never sent Danny a card from the Eastern USA, but I did move to Portland for a while. There are indeed a significant quantity of Danny Lucas’ grouped out there in the “Oreegun”, “Orgun”, “Oruhgun” area. No one there can decide how to pronounce their state, but they do take pride in announcing your pronounciation is incorrect.
It gives me great pleasure to send Colleen a Christmas article that includes “I love Lucas” and “Lucas With The Lid Off” therein. She will agree with…….BOTH!
In the Indiana Jones series of movies, with Sean Connery shot in the stomach to induce Indiana to seek the elixer water that his dad must drink, or die, he encounters thousands of chalices of water to choose. One sip from any chalice but the saving water chalice, leads to death. Indiana grabs and sips and saves dad too. A guru appears and exclaims to Harrison Ford: “You have chosen wisely”.
I recall that scene as I read of Lucas in Writer Dad, and splendid comments on Lucas from everyone in this highly educated group, and I now proclaim, by authority granted in me as Danny Lucas (a real one) :
“Writer Dad, YOU have chosen wisely”.
I shall return.
Best regards,
Danny Lucas