September 2008 - Fictional Worlds

What with school started, many students, myself included, struggle to find time to write. Here's the thing: you make your own time, and it can be 10 minutes a day if you're that tightly scheduled, or more. All writers at some point struggle with this. Whether it be during the school year, or when you're working full time, or because you're a stay at home parent, all of us will at some point have difficulty finding time to write.

Because of this, until November, when I clear up my schedule so I can focus entirely on my writing, I'm only going to be writing minimal amounts every weekday.

Writing exercises can help you find your voice, go through your feelings on a certain subject, collect your knowledge into a piece of writing, and much more. Not all writers use exercises per se, but many do, and they can be fun as well as benefiting our writing skill and voice.

I am going to be writing ten minutes every day, using one word each day as a prompt and freewriting based on that. I will post these exercises and I encourage other writers to do the same using my prompts or others that they find.

If you do writing exercises or use prompts on a regular basis, let me know. I'd love to know where you get your prompts and how you choose them.

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Exercise: Best Friends Poem 1

September 26th 2008 20:34

Losing My Best Friend
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To lose you
Is true sadness;
You have kept me
Bound to this Earth
With humour,
Advice,
But most of all-
Care.

And when you return
I will still be here;
Waiting for you,
Your eternal friend.

Reunion;
All the stories we shall tell,
All the fun we will share again-
I will not have forgotten you
I will never forget you.

Just please,
Come back soon;
I'll miss you.

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The Writer's Darkness

September 16th 2008 22:03

The part of us that makes us writers is said to make depression more common. Personally I think depression is common everywhere, but more so among writers-especially young writers. Suicide is the third leading cause of death of young people.

I know I have faced the darkness numerous times, and somehow pulled through. I know it isn't easy, and it will never be easy, and I expect the darkness to haunt me until the end of time. This is a burden I will bear for now, until one day it destroys me. And I know that it probably will; I can see that happening. But I'll keep it at bay for now.

Depression is not easy. It never will be. There is absolutely nothing you can do to make it easy for yourself. Easier, yes, but never really easy.

Many many writers have struggled with this over the centuries. Many have overcome it; many others have fallen to its strength and died. That is one of the many sad truths of life. And many of us still struggle with it.

But there are others out there, others who are struggling in the same endless tunnel of darkness, others who long for the day a light of happiness may shine on their life. I hope that all of them can at least survive. I hope many of them overcome it completely.

Because we have lost too many voices already; so let us band together, and at the very least, come together to help each other through the dark.

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Website Review: Holly Lisle

September 15th 2008 00:48

I'm sick, my internet access is severely restrained because I stayed out REALLY late watching the Batman movie (which I loved), and I'm just feeling generically exhausted from school and life at the moment.

However, I am posting something. I just got the last lesson in Holly Lisle's newsletter course on creating your own royalties. Although it isn't for me at quite this point, I believe that someday I will be prepared to take better advantage of the course, which is saved in my Gmail. (I'm just going to say this: I love Gmail, there is so much space, you can keep most of your emails. I have dozens that are kept because there is just that much space

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The Magical Moments

September 10th 2008 08:46

Why do we live life?

For those moments of magic, those moments of beauty and joy and love.
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Apparently

September 8th 2008 04:43

Apparently I've burnt myself out and need to fix my sleep schedule yet again; this isn't going to be an easy thing to maintain. (Social lives get in the way three times a month) But I'm determined to maintain it to the best of my ability.

Sadly while I try to fix my sleep schedule I won't be coherent for the next couple of days, at least not enough to write a blog post. I'm going to bed soonish, and slowly resetting my schedule over the next week. If I hadn't have had something both days this weekend I would've been fine, but as it is, I need to fix my schedule. So... I won't be around for a couple days. I also have more editor work to do

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Conventional English Classes

September 6th 2008 11:22

As I'm waiting for a response from my editor, I'm going to be here today and possibly tomorrow as well. And in the spirit of the start of school, my first post is going to be about the evils of grade nine English.

As some of you may remember, I disappeared for quite a while last year from Orble, as I was stressed out to an extreme level; well, I disappeared from school, too, and as a result I'm retaking all of my grade nine classes (with minor changes) this year. Which means I'm taking English

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Busy

September 4th 2008 04:07

My wrist is acting up again and I have a lot of work to do on Moonshadow's Guardian, so I won't be back until that's done, most likely.

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Living, Breathing Stories

September 1st 2008 09:39

I am what I call an 'organic writer'. I can't remember where I first heard the term, although perhaps Stephen King can be blamed (don't ask why his name popped into my head.) I will usually give myself an idea where the story is headed and some idea of the characters, but I let the story grow and change.

I've been working on Jihad for four years now, for example. It's one of my most treasured stories and I know its biggest plot points like the back of my hand. I know the motivations of every God on both sides. I have a firm idea of Kaitlyn's internal function-she adapts to physical change more easily than mental and cultural change. I know Keith pretty well, too

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Into The Shadows: Print

September 1st 2008 06:37

I was bored, I went to Lulu and put up Into The Shadows as a print book for $8.06 US. Why? Because I like print books. It was easy and just seemed like a reasonable thing to do at the time.

It's available on the same page as the other one, in other words, here

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Why Do I Write?

September 1st 2008 05:57

I've written about this topic before. But I've been thinking about it a lot lately, so I decided to talk about why I write-not only this blog, but everything else that I write.

I write because without writing, I would be locked away with no outlet to express myself

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