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Insult

August 31st 2010 12:39
Insult
I love you and I always will
but I can't deal with you insulting yourself
at every single turn;
no matter how I try to build you up
you're always tearing yourself down.

It breaks my heart to see
how much you hate yourself
how much you think you're bad
you can't see the good
but I can.

You don't know why I love you
perhaps you never will
but I won't stop loving you.

I hope someday you'll see what I see
see that you're a good person
that you really are handsome
that you really are smart
that you're so much more
than you've ever thought you are.

Please
don't insult yourself anymore
don't call yourself names
realize that every time I say you're a good guy
it's not a lie;
realize that you can be so much more
if only you let yourself.
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That's for a dear friend of mine. On another note, both Fictional Worlds and I have had a birthday this month-Fictional Worlds is three years old now and I'm a whole 17 years old. Almost legal-just a hop skip and a jump away, right?

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Prompt of the Week: Alone

August 24th 2010 12:58


I'm all alone out here
and for the first time
my mind is clear;

all the stress of the city
just fades away
I'm so glad
I got out yesterday.

I've figured things out
though I'm not jumping for joy
I don't like the decisions I've made
but I've gotta do
what I've gotta do
though I'll hate
saying goodbye to you.

Going out there I felt so free. For the first time I was traveling by myself and with my own money and it felt great. I slept on the dock and I didn't mind it. What's better than to be alone on a cool summer night with a beautiful lake? Possibly not getting eaten by the local musquitos, but I don't mind the bites.

Exactly what I needed, that's what I said this trip would be. I left Toronto confused, my only thoughts those of escape, and I returned with certainty in my steps. The path ahead can be seen for miles, though the sharp rocks are sure to cut my feet. I must pause now, take a breath and brace myself for the pain.

And in just a few weeks, I will surely know pain.


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Prompt of the Week: Losing You

August 17th 2010 12:07

Photo from: Nathan F's photostream on Flickr

Losing You

I feel like I'm losing you
the same way I lost all the others;
why do you feel
that the needle makes you better?

You're poisoning yourself
and asking me to watch
asking me to smile
telling me it'll only be
just a little while.

I've lost perhaps a dozen
to this evil thing
and I know I'll lose a dozen more
to the monster that is ketamine.

Your loss shocked me
but it's really no surprise;
I wish that I could save you
with the tears behind my eyes.

And I wish I'd never let you
wander that dark path
I wish that I had stopped you
now I know I can't.

I'm losing you
to the needle
though I barely knew you;
but remember that it's not just me losing you
you're losing yourself too.

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Looking in the Mirror

August 10th 2010 12:30
Mirror
Looking in the Mirror


For the first time today when I looked in the mirror I liked what I saw. She's strong and I like the fire behind her blue eyes. She's got smooth flowing red hair that's slowly turning blonde, bleached by the sun's rays. She's got long well muscled legs that someday would be great in a martial art. You can tell by her grin that she's a little bit evil, but it's easy enough to look innocent. She could sit there all day and make cute faces; she'd have the whole world kneeling before her by the time she was done. Or maybe not, who knows


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What Counts as Writing Time?

August 9th 2010 12:59
When creating and following a writing schedule, you must also decide what to include in your writing time. This will vary greatly depending on the kinds of writing that you do. For a writer of non-fiction or even historical novels, research is so essential to writing that it takes up writing time. For a high fantasy writer, worldbuilding is essential so it takes up writing time. For a blogger, sometimes even things like email are part of 'writing time'.

I have two different kinds of writing time: fiction writing time and blogging time. My fiction writing time is divided into worldbuilding, plot building, editing, and writing various short stories and novels. Blogging time is divided into writing posts, responding to comments, preparing workshops, and brainstorming. I've also started setting aside time for my other website and its blog


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Prompt Of The Week

July 20th 2010 12:25
Today's prompt is:

Write 500 words about falling in love
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A Couple Blogs

July 9th 2010 12:44
Today I don't have much for you, just two blogs and some news about my personal life.

I'll start with the links so if you don't care you can ignore my personal b****hfest


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Prompt Of The Week

July 7th 2010 12:57
Sorry that today's prompt is a day late. Today's prompt comes from something that happened to me earlier this week. First I'll give you the prompt and then the backstory:

Pick one of your best remembered dreams and turn it into a short story.
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5 Great Blog Posts

June 25th 2010 11:16
I mentioned earlier this week that due to my wrist, I won't be posting as much here. However, though I will be focusing my writing on other things, and I will be writing less, I'll be reading more than ever. This week I've read some amazing blog posts that I would like to share with you:

~Dear Muse: is a correspondence between author and muse in which the muse is fired. The muse then comes back with a letter asking why the writer doesn't look at their own actions


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My Summer Writing Goals...

June 23rd 2010 12:05
Summer has, for most students at least in the GTA, officially begun. My school ended on Monday and now I lie in wait for marks... but what will I be writing this summer? I've got big plans for Fictional Worlds and for my website and I'm hoping that summer will give me the time I need to put a lot of these plans into motion.

What's coming up in my writing life


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The Writing Olympics

June 22nd 2010 12:19
I've only just discovered the 2010 Writing Olympics over at YoungWritersOnline.net, which has just begun. I won't be participating but it sounds like a fantastic set of writing challenges. Follow the links to find out more:

~How It Works: A Brief Explanation for the Proceedings of the Olympics
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Freedom is Painful

June 21st 2010 12:31
Well I finished school on Friday... all of my assignments have been completed and now I get to sit and wait for marks.

What else happened on Friday? I woke up in lots of pain. Where was the pain? If you guessed wrist, you're close-my entire hand seized up, and it's been hurting ever since. Tomorrow I'm going to look into the matter of getting myself a proper family doctor with the hopes that I can be sent to a specialist before July is over. It's no longer just painful, it's become almost crippling


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Creating a Fictional Blog

June 4th 2010 12:59
A fictional blog and a blog about fiction are far from being the same thing. This blog is a blog about fiction; a fictional blog is written from the point of view of one character and is essentially that character's blog. Depending on the context of your character's life, you may or may not allow comments. Comments should be responded to in character. It's a great way to get some publicity for your writing and your character.

What does this have to do with your Dear Diary project? Well, given a little bit of editing, your Dear Diary might make an excellent beginning for a fictional blog. It may have its own story arc, but that doesn't mean you can't add more to it as you go along


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Mining Your Dear Diary Project for Short Story Ideas

June 3rd 2010 12:54
There are a thousand and one things you can do after having written a Dear Diary Project. One of these is to examine your Dear Diary project closely, looking for ideas that can be turned into short stories.

For example, you might have discovered a crucial fact about your character but not have explored it fully. Now is the time to take that crucial fact and ask who, what, where, when, why, and how. You might discover an abusive relationship in their past, a friend's death, or even a beautiful moment that kept them going when times were dark. Explore those things and follow them to their natural conclusions; you might just find a great story arc


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What Next: Profiles and Biographies

June 2nd 2010 12:46
What can you do with your Dear Diary project? Well, before looking at what can be done with the Dear Diary project itself, let's take a look at what can be done with all the information you got from your project.

Those of you who have been reading Fictional Worlds for a while may be familiar with my Expanded Character Profiles. In fact, you may have even filled a good chunk of one out for your Dear Diary character. You may have been missing large portions of this profile before. Now is your chance to fill out the entire profile


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What Comes Next?

June 1st 2010 12:30
Now that the Dear Diary workshop is over, you may be wondering what to do with your diary and with the time you were previously spending writing your diary. There are several options on where you go from here-you could continue your Dear Diary project, start a new one, start a journal for yourself, or any number of other things.

Here on Fictional Worlds I would like to walk you through some next steps-applying what you've learned about your character to your novel, using the diary to write new stories about your character, possibly even editing the diary or turning it into a novella. Over the next week or so, I'm going to show you what your options are from here


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The End of Dear Diary

May 31st 2010 16:43
Today is both the last day of May and the last day of the Dear Diary workshop. Now you have to decide how to end your Dear Diary project. Do you want your character to get sick of writing a diary, or do you want them to have filled their notebook? Do you want their diary to end because a certain trauma has ended, or do you want it to continue, even if you aren't writing it? More importantly, do you want to continue it to a logical ending point in its story, or is it ready to be put down?

How you end your Dear Diary project is as dependent on your character as it is on you. Maybe your character has been writing journals for years, and ends each one in a specific way. Maybe your character isn't ready to stop writing yet. Maybe your character wanted it to be over and done with last week and is glad to see it over


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Burning the Candle at Both Ends

May 26th 2010 12:19


I've been burning the candle at both ends trying to write, party, chill with my friends, and go to school and get homework done. This is why I didn't post yesterday, and why this post has very little substance


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It's Holiday Time

May 24th 2010 12:51
fireworks


Today is Victoria Day here in Canada, which doesn't celebrate my grandmother (which is really too bad; she needs a holiday) but celebrates the Sovereign's Birthday, and recognizes the greatness of Queen Victoria. Now, I'm not usually one to really care for or pay attention to royalty, but I'm not complaining about a day off school


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Links on Dream Diaries and the Winner of the D.J. MacHale Books

May 21st 2010 12:09
I've been running around all over the place lately, and it's been hard to do much of anything around here or on my personal website. I have found you a couple links about dear diaries to consider, and at the end of this post I will announce the winner of the D. J. MacHale books.

~How to Sleep Better Using a Dream Diary is an interesting article about keeping a Dream Diary. I don't know if it really does help with the sleeping-but it's probably worth a shot


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