SOLC 30- The dragon of promptlessness ... returns! (part 2)

The return, part two


Before you read this I would recommend reading this section first because it has the first part from day 2. Oh, and something worth mentioning. promptlessness should really become a word because it fits this challenge so well.

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https://www.pinterest.com/craftwing/wall-murals/

He circles daily, around and around the laptop screen, seeking out the places where he can reek the most havoc of no ideas. He has tried to come back to me, but this time I have built up my defenses, I have striven for creativity and ideas, and it worked out in my favor. Now that the challenge is winding down, I seem to have an open hole in my head through which ideas freely flow, and I know what I will always write the next day, no problem. I could write about so many things right now. 10 lists, slices of my life (literal things I did), animations that have shaped me, poetry, my creativity seems boundless now. He still stalks however, across the top of the laptop, knowing that one of these days he will reach a weak spot, and he will use it yet again.

He found it. My one weakness. I have a good prompt, but once I get farther in than about the first 3-4 lines I have no idea what to write about it. He found a way to squeeze himself back into my slices by finding my Achilles heel. I have no idea how he, or I for that matter, found this issue, but I know it is tearing me apart. I am excited to write something, and then I falter and feel unconfident in my work. He has wormed himself back into my brain, letting me taste the feeling of victory over the challenge before cutting me off and stopping me. That evil, evil dragon! I seem to have lost any idea for what to write, so I guess I have written this about the same thing I started with. I was the second slice, and it will be the second to last slice. Hmm... I have accomplished so much, and have written so successfully, and have managed to get through. Maybe he is just in my head. Maybe he is just a part of all of us. A section of our brain that falters, maybe it is just me.

SOLC 29- Our trip to Custer, South Dakota



Crazy horse monument

Custer and the great food problem
For spring break my family decided to go to Custer South Dakota. So far we have gone to a mammoth dig site, went to the crazy horse monument, and are planning to go to mount Rushmore and several caves. We started with the five hour drive like usual for roadtrips, and got to our first motel. We settled in, and got ready to go to the mammoth dig site the next morning. The mammoth dig site was very enjoyable and cool. Seeing all of the fossils jutting out of the rocks from which they were excavated, a bright pop of color and movement compared to the rock. One of my favorite parts was the fact that there were random objects like Dixie cups lying around for various excavation purposes. This includes random push pins in the rocks to mark things.


Next, we went to the Crazy Horse Memorial. Its construction had started sixty years ago, and will be complete around sixty years from now. Even though it is not done it is still amazing to see how much rock they were able to blast away from the mountain, and how realistic they can make parts of it. They had a lot of museums based off of the sculptor's life and it was interesting to learn about him. The best part was that I got a free mountain shard from where they had blown it up! The food problem was that everywhere in Custer the food services had closed down for the winter, and all that were left were the super greasy restaurants. This means that we need to move hotels again to stay in rapid city so we can have good food. This adds an hour to all of our drives because rapid city is over an hour away from all of the sites we want to see. Overall, I am really excited to see what the rest of the trip has in store for us, regardless off the drive!


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https://crazyhorsememorial.org/