The Sixteenth Day of Validity and Invalidity

Today I’m trying to capture invalidity in validity and validity in invalidity. Invalidity being without foundation or force in fact, truth, or law; logically inconsequent, and valid meaning appropriate to the end in view: effective having the example: “every craft has its own valid methods” made me think about the validity and invalidity of methods I’ve created for my craft. I started by bringing pool noodles and reflection balls into the mirror world to explore if my valid outdoor methods are valid or invalid in the mirrorworld. But then I thought about looking at the word VALID. I haven’t done any vispo in a while, using the the symbols of the letters themselves to show their meaning.

2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 16

Today’s prompt is to write an animal poem.Sounds like a good reason to enjoy the pictures in my copy of Woop Studios’s A Compendium of Collective Nouns _{(assoc. link)}. Wanting my collective nouns to be alliterative I had to get creative with some of them. I used https://www.collectivenounslist.com for inspiration as well.

This cold is an alphabet of aches

an army of ants
a battery of barracuda
a cauldron of crows 
a doom of dragons 
an electrocution of eels
a family of ferrets
a gallop of greyhounds
a herd of hippopotamuses
an intrusion of iguanas
a judgement of jackals
a kinship of  koalas
a lounge of lizards
a mischief of mice
a nuisance of nags
an orchestra of orioles
a prickle of porcupines
a quip of quails
a rumba of rattlesnakes
a shiver of sharks 
a terror of terriers
an unction of urials
a violence of vipers
a wriggle of worms
a xylophone of xeruses
a yolk of yaks
a zigzag of zokors

This cold doesn't feel like

an armory of aardvarks
a bike of bees
a comfort of cats
a dropping of ducks
an exaltation of egrets
a fancy of flamingos
a glint of goldfish
a hedge of herons
an imposition of ibex
a journey of jaguars
a kindle of kittens
a loveliness of ladybugs
a movement of moles
a network of newts
an observance of owls
a pulchritude of peacocks
a quandary of quokka
a raucous of reindeer
a swoop of swallows
a truelove of turtledoves
a unity of unicorns
a vanity of vultures
a wailing of whales
a x-ray of xolo
a yearning of yapok
a zeal of zebras

It’s Open Link Night at dVerse Poets Pub, so I’m linking up this poem there. If you can make it, there’s also an Open Link Live on Saturday (Nov. 18) at 10am Eastern.

Today I’m going to explore what my characters tell themselves to validate their actions and points of view. Is there validity in their thinking? What would invalidate their actions, goals, and motivations? How would they react to this invalidation?

I’m also going to brainstorm the six kinds of twists presented in Novel Writing Blueprint Workbook _{(amazon assoc. link)} by Jill Harris:

1. Identity Twists: How could my characters turn out to be someone or something other than they seem?
2. Death Twists: Which of my main characters can I kill off in a surprising way?
3. Motive Twists: Who actually want the opposite of what they say they want? How is that revealed?
4. Perception Twists: How do my characters realize that their realities are different than they think?
5. Fortune Twists: When my characters appear to have good fortune, what or who snatches it away?
6. Fulfillment Twists: When my characters fulfill their desires and reach their goals, how can that cause unintended disaster for themselves or others?

Once I’ve brainstormed at least five for each, I will choose one or two of my favorites to outline as scenes and then I’ll write at least one today.

Happy Reading and Writing!