Play along on White Out Wednesdays. Black Cat Alley says:
- copy and paste the featured post into your space (blog post draft) then using the text colour option, “whiteout the words” you select, leaving behind your creation.
Leave the format and spacing as it stands, and/or re-format it into something tidy (easier reading). It’s up to you.
Remember: you might not have a “polished perfected piece” – this is a subtraction process – so no adding bits to make it “right.”
If you chose to include the original post in your blog, as context for readers, please cite and credit appropriately, if that information is available.
- Tag your post: Black Cat Alley, Whiteout Wednesdays.
- Create a link or pingback to my original post.
- Add your entry to the Link Up (I find it easier to group the entries this way and anyone who might be blogging from Blogger can also play along.)
Please note: if you create a pingback, I manually approve them, so it might be a day or two before you see it show up. The same applies for direct linking.
- You have a week to create! You can play as many times as you’d like. And please consider taking some time to visit and like or comment on the other entries.
This week’s text is Alaska by Tom Franklin, exerted here. I took one paragraph, and created a new narrative.
My white out in Alaska:
At night in my dark glasses and Bruce in smoky harems of women and they’d insist on buying us a drunk welder at the bar. if he got lucky honey, I’d amble and punch up John Prine and bikers and cowboys..In the middle of the fight, I’d crawl bleeding out the back and sleep on a rock until morning.
Original paragraph:
At night we’d stop in dives, me in my dark glasses and Bruce in his eelskin cowboy boots. There’d be smoky harems of women interested in such eclectic guys, and they’d insist on buying us boilermakers. When I picked up a babe, I’d take the truck and leave Bruce arm-wrestling a drunk welder at the bar. Or if he got lucky and split with a startling honey, I’d amble to the jukebox and punch up John Prine and lure my dream girl away from the line-dancing bikers and cowboys. In the middle of the fight, I’d crawl bleeding out the back and sleep on a rock next to a cow skull and wait until the olive drab truck topped the hill in the morning.
I just might come back and play again.
February 5, 2017 at 4:45 pm
Oh…using more of the story to white out – that’s just like adding extra prompts!
Most excellent!
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February 5, 2017 at 10:13 pm
Thanks — I didn’t know exactly how to approach it first time ’round.
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February 6, 2017 at 2:21 pm
I like the white out better than black out. So maybe that’s why I hadn’t done the form all that much before.
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February 1, 2017 at 9:55 am
Oh…. I’ve been fiddling and diddling and can’t figure it out – but the other day I had another friend email me an answer because I had commented on one of her posts – and for whatever reason, she couldn’t comment back on her end – not even hit the “like” button in reply …. so maybe Gremlins??? I have no idea. Even checked my spam box to make sure nothing important was in there – so no dice. And you weren’t in the notification, other than through your 25 words “name” so I’m not sure.
But I commented on the post and added your link to it that way too. So at least, you’re also visible other than just through the Mr. Linky.
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February 1, 2017 at 10:25 am
Thanks — I get the problem sometimes when have more than one blog going. And yesterday no access to internet thru explorer/edge.
Had to pull battery and put back in to get on line.
Installed firefox last night — we’ll see if the fox can keep the gremlins at bay.
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February 1, 2017 at 11:11 am
well…. that’s the “wonderful side of technology” ;) glitches and switches and short circuits …. so best approach, try not to blow a fuse and see what might work …. we’ve all been there, so I get it.
And yeah, maybe the fox might keep things at bay. In the end, I chose Chrome, because it was the browser offering me the least amount of techno glitches …. but it’s never quite “perfect” …. so, we just slap a smile on and do the best we can.
Here’s keeping the fingers crossed for you :)
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February 1, 2017 at 5:48 pm
can’t comment
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February 1, 2017 at 7:33 pm
hmmm …. odd, I just approved your second link, so that should show up! maybe someone turned off your “voice activation” button – damn cyber gremlins!
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February 1, 2017 at 5:48 pm
mean can’t get comments to work
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February 1, 2017 at 7:34 pm
frustrating …. so no worries …. like I said, someone else I know just had the same damn problem ….
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February 1, 2017 at 8:31 pm
Yes, and someone trying to comment on my blog took 3 tries to get the comment to stick.
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February 2, 2017 at 11:00 am
I’d say, there’s something or rather, someone(s) …. the WP Gremlins at work/play ….. hopefully, it gets sorted right quick, so everyone can settle back into business as usual.
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February 1, 2017 at 9:48 am
Ohhh totally cool! Totally cool!
This is great!
And hey, you used some bits from the rest of the story! Awesome! :) Excellent! (I’m laughing in absolute glee) ….. amazing!
And what a great choice of paragraph to play with. And sure, if you want, you can play again – you have a week to mess around and enjoy! As you wish and feel :)
Thanks for playing along Lorraine :D
And yeah, I’m going to try to see why the comments weren’t working for you from your other name/admin.
I’ll check my admin board and see if it’s something on my end or what.
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February 1, 2017 at 9:17 pm
That’s me the rebel thinking the whole piece was our playground! Something about whiting out “eelskin boots” was very satisfying.
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February 2, 2017 at 11:07 am
actually, the whole piece could and is the playground. I just selected a part in case the whole thing seemed a bit much for a first play.
So, no worries at all :)
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February 1, 2017 at 3:58 am
Well that was a challenge I have to say….nicely done to you..
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February 1, 2017 at 9:17 pm
Thank you — definitely a challenge!
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