Author: Ron Delaney Jr

My name is Ron and I write about stuff. Weird stuff. Stuff that's sad/fun, magical/mundane, morbid/uplifting, deep/shallow, insightful/ridiculous, subjective/objective, big/small, topical/irrelevant, good/bad/really bad/OH GOD MY EYES, and fairies. And ghosts. And now robots!

Sad little thing I wrote for a writing challenge

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Here’s something I wrote last week for a writing challenge over at writersdigest.com. Looking at it now, I’d probably move the last five lines to the beginning, but oh well. It got a few nice comments, so I figured I’d toss-it-up here.

And no, I didn’t just use my own name. I’m full of myself, but not that full 😉 “Ron” was one of the words you had to use.

WARNING – This little bugger is sneaky. Parents in particular, be advised – if you’re not in the mood for sad imagery, please do not read.

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Friday Morning FYI – 8/14/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is a quote ripped from a brief text conversation I had a few days ago with the brilliant Tabitha Lord (follow her blog here). We were discussing pics of us at WDC15 Writer’s Digest posted to their Facebook page, and I noted how great it is she’s always smiling. This was her response:

My trick: I surround myself with people I really, really like 😀

Words to live by, people.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Just playing with a word

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Sometimes I like to play with a word, seeing if I can create something from it that has some meaning for me. It’s not an original idea, of course, but is fun. Fun for me, anyway. And sometimes cathartic (like this time).

Here’s one of those short little things I wrote, oh, maybe a month ago. It’s a simple one – you won’t need a cypher to see the pattern 🙂

 

Catacombed
As all the rest
Taken by surprise
And infected by fathomless eyes
Safe in armor
Tempted but not spent
Regretfully, in the closing hour
Orpheus “loudly singing the praises of the gods to his lyre”
Pulled by that force of nature, still
Home to the fields of lavender
Elegant yet raw, and unreachable.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj)

Friday Morning FYI – 8/7/2015

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Welcome to your Friday Morning FYI – I’ll-be-attending-the-Writers-Digest-Conference-in-NYC-this-weekend-so-find-me-and-say-hi! edition – my chance to share observations/wisdom/rants in short, easily consumed form.

This week’s FYI is about progressing through life, not regressing:

Sometimes reaching out is just reaching back, and back is never helpful. Forward is the only way to go.

 

Thanks for reading,

{RDj}

Thoughts on #WDC15 (Writer’s Digest Conference 2015)

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WDC2014 was the first writer’s conference I’d ever attended. I learned so much, including how not-ready my first book was for shopping (me shopping it to agents, not the book going out to buy shoes, or something), met some of the most creative/dedicated/fun people, and left feeling like a member of a supportive community. So to say I was looking forward to WDC2015 is a whale of an understatement. I couldn’t wait to get there, and spent the previous week daydreaming about experiencing the same incredible vibe I’d gotten the year before.

But after an hour at WDC2015, I knew that wouldn’t be the case.

Dramatic Cat

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