My Google fu is giving me no help with Tihadrian dimorphous chloride.

It's a nonsense phrase. It's not a real thing, and it doesn't follow naming conventions. :)

I love a whole bunch of different kinds of photos, but if I had to narrow it down, I think the photos that I like best have a sense of story to them and/or a sense that we're gazing through a window to another world.

Like I want to see a photo that suggests its captured a moment in time and we can make some guesses about the moment before and maybe the moment after.

In regards to my writing, I ideally like to leave some things suggested but often have a tendency to over explain. I spent a year trying to write nothing longer than 500 (then 300) words just to break this habit, but it didn't take. :D

I'm gravitating towards "Sabotage" and "Imaginary Friend" at the moment. However, I have discovered that I love the sound of the word "Recessional." It feels good just to say it - try whispering it in your most seductive voice. So good, that word.

I've been wanting to write about rap and hip-hop and "Sabotage" offers an obvious excuse to do that.

I was talking with gratefuladdict early today about why I've been slowly walking away from the Joey Michaels pseudonym and "Imaginary Friend" would offer a chance to address that.

But... I also have really interesting (to me) fiction ideas for both of them. :O

I don't have immediate ideas for "Tihadrian dimorphous chloride is a hell of a drug" or "Helpful information" but I might be inspired if I sleep on them.

The main thing this week is finding time.

I'm a professional photographer, so I've had years to consider what I like to see in a photo....and why. To parallel those preferences with writing is a new twist and I've been considering it since you asked.

As a wedding photographer, I offer two forms of coverage to my client. The formal portraits and trad shots, and then the candid b/w shots. My signature offering to all wedding clients, and why I continue shooting weddings which is truly grueling work, is to capture the single summation photograph. It is always a candid, it is always a detail shot, it is something that would be missed with the formal portraits and line-ups. These are the "arty" shots, the images I prefer for their small moment-out-of-time feeling, and the ones I tell clients will hold up for decades as display pieces over the portraits. The sockless groom, the sneakered bride, the hand-holding gesture, the first look of both partners, the recessional joy, the couple alone for the first time.

And now that I hold that up against what I like to write and what I like to read, it makes sense. The small detail that is unique to that particular story.

Thanks for that thought-provoking question, G!