The Insane Ramblings and Mindless Dribble of a General Factotum
***This journal is on a temporary hiatus due to ComicCon portfolio prep. I may update with personal posts from time time to time. The experiment will continue in August. Thanks!***
“Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.”
-- William Shakespeare
factotum |fakˈtōtəm|
noun ( pl. -tums )
an employee who does all kinds of work : he was employed as the general factotum.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.(originally in the phrases dominum (or magister) factotum, translating roughly as [master of everything,] : from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus).
My name is Sarah L. Gerhardt. I am a 30-something writer and general factotum from Portland, Oregon. You have, however unwittingly, stumbled upon my little experiment. Mwah hahaha! Oh wait -- not that kind of experiment, it's a writing experiment. I have decided to dedicate this journal to exercising my writing muscles... keep the brain juices flowing...
Every Friday evening I will pick a topic of the week (or have someone pick it for me). I will write for at least one solid hour for the next seven days on that subject. It could be poetry, prose, an essay, an editorial, a film script, a comic script, a play, rambling or pure dribble... in any genre... whatever pours out... so long as the main theme is the topic picked that Friday.
Sit back, relax and read away if you so choose... I assure they will not all be winners... but that is far from the point. Welcome to the madhouse my friends!
“Welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing.”
-- William Shakespeare
factotum |fakˈtōtəm|
noun ( pl. -tums )
an employee who does all kinds of work : he was employed as the general factotum.
ORIGIN mid 16th cent.(originally in the phrases dominum (or magister) factotum, translating roughly as [master of everything,] : from medieval Latin, from Latin fac! ‘do!’ (imperative of facere) + totum ‘the whole thing’ (neuter of totus).
My name is Sarah L. Gerhardt. I am a 30-something writer and general factotum from Portland, Oregon. You have, however unwittingly, stumbled upon my little experiment. Mwah hahaha! Oh wait -- not that kind of experiment, it's a writing experiment. I have decided to dedicate this journal to exercising my writing muscles... keep the brain juices flowing...
Every Friday evening I will pick a topic of the week (or have someone pick it for me). I will write for at least one solid hour for the next seven days on that subject. It could be poetry, prose, an essay, an editorial, a film script, a comic script, a play, rambling or pure dribble... in any genre... whatever pours out... so long as the main theme is the topic picked that Friday.
Sit back, relax and read away if you so choose... I assure they will not all be winners... but that is far from the point. Welcome to the madhouse my friends!