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Fictional Worlds - January 2008

Stress leave

January 31st 2008 13:58
I'm on hiatus for reasons not writing-related. Mostly my mother.

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Stories...

January 28th 2008 20:02
My latest story is based off a premise I've been thinking about a lot lately:

'Those who we call crazy are rarely mad or truly insane. They are visionaries and geniuses, men and women of brilliance whose visions we cannot see. Many see visions of the future, visions that terrify them, things that frighten them into madness. And thus we have the cases of madness we see most often, and we have the cases of insanity, the cases of suicide.

For, when you can see things others can't see-frightening things they dismiss as hallucinations-wouldn't you go crazy yourself?'

It starts off with a seven-year-old-girl who sees her first vision of something horrible. Over the years, she is driven crazy by these visions as she grows up and the world tells her they aren't real.


But they are real. She can feel them, see them, hear them. And yet... they deny her visions' existence. She goes 'crazy' from these visions...

And her last words upon the wall are written in blood

'Akhet... be wary... of the dawn... It Begins...'

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The Best Singers Make Their Own

January 25th 2008 19:54
How many of us have dreamed of being a musician? How many of us have dreamed to one day sing, to make it big, to be up on stage in all our glory?

I can tell you I have. I can tell you I dream of it all the time. And the best singers write their own songs, and let me tell you, I have soooo many songs it's not even funny. Other than to write, my only other passions are singing and acting.

And trust me. I love to sing.

Who knows, maybe I'll get a big break as a singer someday.

Now wouldn't that be awesome?

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Darkness rising,
I can't see the light for the sun's blockade
Shining darkness down on me
And in the end,
It all comes down to one thing
That is that I love you.

For my love for you,
Is the darkest part of me...
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Thoughts?
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Writing for yourself

January 25th 2008 01:04
There are those who write for money; those who write for others; but in the end, the best of us are those who write for passion, for themselves before all others.

Writing for yourself is one of the most rewarding activities in the world. When you write for yourself, there's a certain pleasure gained. You write because you love to write, and when you do that, the words can pour out


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A Notebook-The Poor Man's Laptop

January 24th 2008 03:36
As a writer, odds are you're going to want to write outside of your home, quite plausibly away from your desktop. And we're not all rich enough for a laptop.

This post is, in essence, the guide to stationary. Starting with notebooks


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To Be A Writer

January 23rd 2008 05:16
The arts; very few of us competely lack passion for all of them. I have a passion for most of them, even if I don't have a talent for them. Each and every last one of them is a cut-throat business in which it's a one in a million chance you'll succeed in.

And to walk along an artsy path is difficult. But for those of us truly passionate about our writing, we will walk along it, we will travel, and we will try and try again where others might give up and walk away


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Writing Work

January 22nd 2008 21:26
I'm praying right now. Praying that I'll get a big gigantic break in my writing. I'm looking for places to submit one of my short stories to (the one that's been sent around and around) and praying that someday SOMETHING will come along.

Right now I'm also on the lookout for poetry competitions and publishers. I'm looking everywhere and hoping that something soon will come through. Within a couple weeks I should know if one of my pieces is getting published


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Longing

January 20th 2008 18:59
Freedom
My only hope
My only wish


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Writing Is Difficult Without Computer

January 20th 2008 00:35
I've got very, very limited computer access right now (as in I only have it at my bf's), so my writing is flopping and so is my blogging.

But I AM alive. Yay.
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Writing Work

January 14th 2008 16:11
I'm coming back with a vengeance. I'm writing again-yay-and I'm looking for places and web opportunities to submit to. I'm looking for places to put my writing again.

Right now I'm praying that somehow I'll find a way to become a writer within two years, a way to earn the money to get out of this hellhole I'm forced to call home


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Been Sick But I'm Back Into It

January 14th 2008 04:16
I've been getting hugely back into my writing as I recover from my stress sickness. I'm getting seriously into it because I want to make a career out of this.

This is my life, this is my dream, this is my career. It is everything to me and it is my only passion-honestly, it's the only thing other than my spirituality that I care about


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...Silence...

January 11th 2008 01:47
The words of the mind are silenced and darkened by those of the world around you; the fury at being here is too much for you to bear. You leave, you run away, you stay away.

And then you go back. They come to see you-and ask to see your forearms


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Not much to say

January 8th 2008 20:10
I wrote a couple poems, but they sucked pretty badly. So guess what? I've got nothing else to say, I'm just updating to update.
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Writing stuffses

January 6th 2008 22:39
So. My life is dull, boring, and nothing unusual. I mean, seriously, nothing unusual. Okay, that's utter crap, but hey.

I'm going through an incredible dry period when it comes to writing. Seriously. Even getting up the motivation to post here is an incredible amount of work. I don't have much else to do, though, so I figured I'd write up a post


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Until The Day I Die

January 5th 2008 15:36
Until the day I die,
I will always love you;
I know that now


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...Sleep? She is for the weak. Inspiration? Apparently not for me.

January 4th 2008 11:57
It's almost seven in the morning, and what have I done? Read a horror book. (Fun to do in the middle of the night, especially when your family is asleep and all the lights are off, and you have to go to the bathroom...) And I've been inspired, but I'm not entirely what I want to write.

All I know is that I want to write something dark, very dark, perhaps darker than anything I've written before. I've started two stories and one was a complete flop, the other seems good but I dunno... it's something that I like, but there's another story itching to get out and I can't put a finger on it


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Getting Into It

January 4th 2008 04:29
I'll freely admit that for the last month, in fact starting December first, I have been completely slacking off. I wasn't going to much school but now I'm just slacking off in all areas of my life and it's something I need to stop doing.

My goal is to write fifty thousand words every month. That isn't difficult, but it's not easy to maintain that. I'm pretty confident that I CAN do it, all I need is dedication. I've been letting things interfere that shouldn't be allowed to interfere with my writing-namely, my love life


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Let's start on these resolution things...

January 2nd 2008 05:37
So here's my plan. I'm going to spend the next few days doing market research. I'm going to write out a list of likely markets and listing those here. That way I'll be motivated to write and submit, and you guys will see some possible markets.

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New Years Resolutions: The Writer's Way

January 1st 2008 07:01
AND I HATE MY MOTHER.

*cough* So. It's the start of two thousand and eight and we're all thinking about the upcoming year. I predict drama, bull, and me running away for a good two weeks. But, but but but but, I AM going to make New Year's Resolutions


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