Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Voice Week Day 2 — Perpetual Darkness

Day two of Voice Week is upon us. Before I started writing this, I had some schoolwork to do and ended up falling asleep...
What is with me and accidentally almost not writing for the day? 
Voice Week is a challenge I've taken up alongside some other other writers in which we each pick a prompt and write around 100 words in the voice of five different characters—one for each day. 
I've been reading what other writers have written and it's been really inspiring and just overall enjoyable. 

Onwards to the writing!


As I leave the brightness of the city, my eyes gravitate to the starry sky. No matter where I go, I can at least rely on the consistent lustre of the Milky Way. Some things will never change. 
A shooting star grabs my attention as it sweeps through the sky, it's white tail chasing after it. In all my life I've seen many places and with it, many of these meteors. I've never bothered wishing, though. Never ever. What's the point? A simple wish won't cure brokenness. Brokenness can't be cured. It's not a disease. And after all, some things will never change. 

How is it that both today's and yesterday's posts are 103 words long? I kinda like that for some reason.
If you want to read more posts like this, visit the Voice Week blog. There's a lot of really great writers participating, you won't be disappointed :)



14 comments:

  1. If yesterday was weariness and despair, today is simple resignation and, if I dare suggest, acceptance. It's almost as though we are being led through Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's five stages of grief, albeit perhaps not in the generally accepted order.

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    1. Resignation and acceptance are exactly what this character is feeling. That's a really interesting idea...I hadn't even thought of that until you said so but it really does seem that way.
      Thanks for commenting!

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  2. Very different from the previous day. This one is sad... more resigned.. the first one seemed to be from a very busy person who had forgotten the simple pleasures of life... this one is more philosophical, if I may...

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    1. Interesting. I hadn't thought of it as philosophical but as I read it over, I'm thinking you may be right. I love it when I do things I don't intend on ^ ^
      Thanks for reading and commenting :)

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  3. I like the repeated line - soe things will never change. This character feels much less anguish and despair than the other, but is still clearly not too happy with life. Great disinctions between them

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    1. Thanks! I'm glad you can pick out key differences ^ ^

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  4. Melancholy springs to mind. Slow, steady and inevitable.

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    1. Meloncholy is a very good word for it.
      Thanks for reading and commenting!

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  5. I like it. ^ ^ It's forlorn and melancholy. Pretty visuals.

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  6. This voice also seems like it's been through some stuff, but they lean toward the logical, whereas the last voice tended toward the poetic. I love how they both see the same thing and perceive it in different ways. Good work! Thanks for sharing.

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    1. Yep, this character is definitely logical. I'm happy you picked up on that and were also able to tell the difference from the last post.
      Thanks so much :)

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  7. She sounds pretty forlorn and resigned.

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    1. Those are two words that a lot of people have used which is fantastic cause that's what I was going for! Thanks for commenting ^ ^

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