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Fictional Worlds - June 2008

If I told you...

June 30th 2008 22:26
If I told you I love you,
If I told you I hate myself,
If I told you everything I am thinking,
Would you believe it?

If you read these tear-stained pages,
Would you wish,
You had let me explain?
Would you wish,
You had not made that vow?
Or are you truly happy now?
That no matter
The truth
You cannot come back?

I love you;
All the blood and tears
I shed each night
Is proof enough of that
See me lying here,
Might as well be dead;
Are you happy now?

Because I'm not.



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On Writing: The Core of Poetry

June 29th 2008 22:24
Poetry is all about technique;
It is about rhythm
How words flow onto the page,
How the pen moves,
How it all comes together
To paint a picture...

Poetry is one of the most beautiful forms of writing. It is appreciated by many and there are many great poets who have-sadly-passed on. So many budding poets in this day in age, with dark and beautiful writing, but poetry is such a hard market to get into.

And poetry is not as easy as one may think to write, for most.

A poet chooses their words carefully, generally going for the minimal words needed to make the biggest impact. Sometimes a poem is much much longer but your average poem is no more than fifteen to twenty lines. Poems are written with an eye towards rhythm and grace, and often written to the end of being read aloud.


Most of the great poetry is dark. Many poets wrote during hard times and wrote dark poems, but in poetry perhaps the darkness is most beautiful.

A poem verse:

I love you
Cold words that spill from
Broken hearts-
And bleeding lips.

Note where the lines are split; I could have put the words 'broken hearts' with the line before it, but I preferred the rhythm of taking a breath there. Most poetry is meant, to some extent, to be read aloud. To put images in the reader's mind with fragmented sentences and paragraphs. And in some cases the fragmented style inherent in poetry makes the symbolism that much more beautiful.

Poetry can be tricky to master for some; and for others, it just flows. Whichever category you fall into, good poetry is a pure art form and it is a passion just as any other form of writing.
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A Poem

June 29th 2008 22:12
Broken
Lifeless
Lonely
Without you.

What is the point of living?
Once upon a time
Our love;
Now...
It is gone.

Am I capable of surviving?
I just don't want to-
No matter how rock bottom I think I am
I never really am;
It just keeps going down.

I don't know how much
Further down I have to go
I just want to give up
Because it isn't uphill yet-
Will it ever be?
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Submission

June 29th 2008 22:06
I submitted Moonshadow's Guardian.

October 31st


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Words On A Page

June 16th 2008 03:56
Writing: the art of putting COHERENT words on a page... and so much more.

Just because you can perform the act of writing words coherently doesn't make you a true writer. A true writer takes talent and hard work. To be a true writer you have to be determined to write, to want to write, to love writing


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Challenging Oneself

June 15th 2008 17:44
Part of being a writer is challenging yourself. You have to challenge yourself to write. You have to challenge yourself to, say, write a blog every day. Or a few pages of your novel. Or a short story. Even a poem.

But without challenging yourself to do your best and do it every single day, you're not going to make it anywhere. Oh hell, most of us aren't gonna make it anywhere ANYWAY. LIfe is just like that; it sucks. Plain and simple. But at least we can TRY


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Synopsis V. 2

June 14th 2008 17:29
Demons: not what you might expect... but not very nice either. Riana is a demon forced to return home and face her 'Family's' trial for a 'crime'. At Home she is rescued from them by Loki, and now she is to protect and guard Moonshadow-and its royal bloodline.

Riana sets out to destroy the telepathic plague that clings to the youngest member of the royal line... and along the way falls in love with a vampire named Andre. The two ride off on Rolf, their dragon, in the midst of night... they destroy Lari, an ancient queen... and then Andre loses his sight and his sanity


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I need opinions on this and QUICKLEH

June 14th 2008 07:18
I'm going to be submitting this in 15 hours for various reasons so I need opinions on the synopsis for Moonshadow's Guardian. Anyone who is willing to read and give a basic critique of the book (it's short, about 250 odd pages double spaced) just post your email and I'll send the file to you.

All comments and crits are much appreciated. Here goes


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Support Nanowrimo! (LINK)

June 14th 2008 00:09
Reading something over on Writer's Notes (link included to blog) got me thinking about NaNoWriMo. So I checked out the site.

And discovered that one of their fundraisers which they did not expect to work out worked out beautifully. I am so happy to hear it! I love Nanowrimo and have been a firm supporter for four years now. I always wished I could donate. But I have never yet had the money. Here we go, though, I've got something to show off-a free and easy way to support NaNoWriMo


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A Writer's Work

June 13th 2008 23:14
What good is writing?

Let me tell you what writing is good for


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Trying To Start Again

June 13th 2008 21:09
It's so hard... so hard. I've been through hell the last few months and I've lost all drive to live. All drive to write.

But I'm back. I'm going to try again. I HAVE to try again. If I am to survive the hardest trials of my life, if I am to survive these things, I must write. I have always written. It is my release. It has been with me since grade three, one of my hard years. It was there when I had to move, Daddy got sick, my parents split up. It was there all throughout the worst school ever


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