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walkertxkitty

LJ Idol Season 6 Week 11 - They've Given You a Number

Jan 22, 2010 18:28

o/` "There's a man who leads a life of danger
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger
With every move he makes another chance he takes
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow" o/`

-- "Secret Agent Man" performed by Johnny Rivers

The bayou folk get around in flat bottomed boats called pirogues. Most cities in Cajun Country, I had found, had at ( Read more... )

lj idol topic, writing, my beloved dee

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drjeff January 23 2010, 06:46:51 UTC

You're such a good writer. I love reading anything that you do.

I wish I could write dialog! :)

walkertxkitty January 23 2010, 06:51:56 UTC

Thank you for reading! I'm glad I could entertain you.

Dialog is fairly easy if you've got real conversation to work from. I go out, listen to people, and then jot down the stuff that I found interesting. The things which are really good make it into my writing. Even if it doesn't, that was one of the primary methods I use for dialog...and still do.

shadowwolf13 January 24 2010, 06:19:00 UTC

I was listening to that song just the other day! :)

I love seeing all this ... though at some point I'm going to have to ask for a timeline of when this all happened, I'm getting times a bit screwy I think.

walkertxkitty January 24 2010, 06:27:17 UTC

The initial events started at the end of October. Dee was stabbed a few days before Samhain and we wrestled with him for almost two weeks before he finally agreed to let us take him to a physician. While Dee was hospitalized, they did my interview to determine what had happened and to try figuring out who was behind the murder attempt. Things wrapped up around December, when he was discharged and told he could start exercising lightly. That brings us up to the events you see in my journal on a daily basis. Unless something really odd happens, we leave tomorrow for his family's place to try and mitigate the contention of his father's estate.

shadowwolf13 January 24 2010, 07:29:19 UTC

Ah! It makes sense now! :) And so do some other entries. :) Thank you

walkertxkitty January 24 2010, 23:35:54 UTC

You're welcome. If you ever have questions, ask. I'm not easy to offend and I realize, given the nature of Dee's profession, that things can get pretty confusing when I have to blur or eliminate details. Cryptic 'yote is cryptic.

BTW, the dreamcatcher you made him got here yesterday. Absolutely gorgeous and full of positive energies. Just what he needs. I'm going to be making a pair of bracelets to match it (similar colors, I'm thinking bloodstone and amber) with the owl and dagger charms and a poison box at the apex.

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walkertxkitty January 25 2010, 02:08:59 UTC

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed reading it.

baxaphobia January 25 2010, 10:41:19 UTC

This is quite a story! Yikes! Hopefully things have improved for Dee.

walkertxkitty January 25 2010, 15:55:46 UTC

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

As you well know, these are fictionalized realities. Because of his job --- and I think now you can see why --- there are a lot of things I have to change around if I'm going to write about them.

He's doing better, but it was a serious injury and it's going to take time to recover. We're all hoping he won't have to retire early.

joeymichaels January 25 2010, 11:46:32 UTC

I love the image of you evading her again and again in your wheelchair. That is fabulous!

Welcome back - missed you last week.

walkertxkitty January 25 2010, 15:57:29 UTC

I'm glad you liked it. It was very difficult to do, considering the wheelchair is a manual one of carbonized steel weighing over 100 pounds and about 36 inches wide...with me in it, and I'm not exactly unnoticeable.

I wanted to write for last week but just couldn't...that round of chemo sucked. I was counting the hours between ice chips and frantically hoping my insides would stay inside.

This week is better.