The Twentieth Day of Resignation in Rashness

Today I’m trying to find the rashness in resignation and the resignation in rashness. Resignation is also a janus word: a word that means its own opposite. Resignation as opposed to rashness means the acceptance of something undesirable but inevitable. However, it also means an act of retiring or giving up a position. Where both the acceptance of the inevitable and retiring or giving up take time and thought, rashness is a quality of acting hastily and without due consideration. Perhaps if one’s nature is rashness, one would eventually become resigned to being rash.

Rashness makes me think of colorful movement. I’ve been thinking of trying different colors on the LED net to see if they separate with movement. I got out too late and it was light out. However, I tried movement with the LED net on different color settings and didn’t find as drastic a separation with any other color. I saw a bit with yellow, and with a purple color, so I headed into the mirror world and tried the different color settings with my fairy light LEDs. There I found the color separation without movement.

2023 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 20

Today’s prompt is to write an even poem (as opposed to the odd poem we wrote on day 11).

Resigned to One’s Rash Nature

Rashness
resignation =
brashness reputation
clash stress—reservation—dash less
relaxation restoration: confess
splash mess? repress = realization relocation

relocation realization = repress mess. Splash!
confess—restoration —relaxation
less dash: relocation stress: clash
reputation brashness =
resignation
rashness

Today I want to go deeper in a scene I started yesterday. I found this post “5 Ways to Add Depth to a Scene” by Janice Hardy at Writers in the Storm Blog. A few things stood out that I’ll explore today:

• Character body language: “Does their body language not match what they’re saying?”
• Use the setting: What can characters use to defend themselves, or attack that is specific to the setting? “How does the setting emotionally affect the characters?”
• Use all the senses: “Can one sense suggest the opposite of what the rest of the senses are saying?”

I think these suggestions will help me dive deeper into my MC’s experience in this chaotic scene.

Happy Reading and Writing!