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Prompt of the Week: Hold me like you Love Me

September 22nd 2010 12:18


Hold Me Like you Love Me

Just for a moment
hold me like you love me
like nothing can go wrong
like nothing ever did
and please, darling,
kiss me one last time
like I'm your girl
like I never left.

And maybe through the tears
we can try again?

Not today
nor tomorrow
but someday...

I'd love to be yours
but I'm not ready now.

I'm sorry...
if you want
just for a moment
I can hold you like I love you.

Your turn. Let's try something new! Post the first 75 words of your response to this exercise in a comment.
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The Danger of Blogging

September 20th 2010 12:08
Fictional Worlds has been my blog, my writing spot, and my safehaven for expression for a little over three years now. Until recently, nobody I knew in real life read my blog; I didn't want to build readers that way. I built readers through online forums, Orble's community, and sheer force of will. The reasons why I kept my blog away from the people were several.

The first is that I wanted to build an unrelated reader base. I wanted people to find me who didn't know my name, who didn't know that I existed. My first comment on my first blog here was from a complete stranger, and that's how I wanted it to be. Part of this was also because I know a lot of people; I could have a hundred readers without having to search for them. I felt it was more authentic if I struggled to find my first reader, and my second, and my fiftieth.

The second is that I didn't think most of the people I know would take it seriously, especially the non-Nano writer folk. I do have friends who have written books. I thought that my more serious writer friends would scoff at my blogging efforts. I thought they would say 'why write a blog when you haven't even gotten a book published yet?' And while I have a thousand answers, I wasn't ready for that. The writers who I know and respect but who I am not close to are the ones I'm talking about here.

The third and final reason is that I wanted this place to be an outlet. Fictional Worlds is about writing, and writing is deeply personal for every writer. I could write a thousand posts about short stories and novels without once worrying about what my friends might or might not see on my blog. Poetry, on the other hand, is even more deeply personal for me. Most of the poetry I write reflects current situations in my life; very little is narrative poetry. All the best poems that I've written-and that I've posted here-were written in response to events in my life. I've felt comfortable posting anything and everything here.

Well, I've set up a Fictional Worlds feed on my facebook. I've added close friends to my Twitter feed, where I show off new blog posts. While I haven't out and out told most of the people I know in real life to check out my blog, a lot more of them have that option than they did before. People I know in real life are getting to know more about my online life.

What does this mean for Fictional Worlds? Probably a lot less poetry. Nothing else will change. My weekly prompts will go back to being mostly short fiction. It's a mixed blessing. I'm glad that people I know and care about are reading my blog; I'm glad that they care enough to check it out. But Fictional Worlds can be my sanctuary no longer.

My soul will always be bare here at Fictional Worlds; writing is deeply personal. My soul shows through in my passion for my words, my passion for my stories. But there are some things best kept hidden. Someday all the poems from the darkest places of my soul will be shown to the whole world; today is not that day.

There is one last poem prompt planned for this week and then we will begin a new era of short fiction here at Fictional Worlds.

P.S. I wrote this post yesterday, and a few hours later I read this post: But Who is the Enemy? Funny how similar themes show up in the writing world...
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Prompt of the Week: The Sea

September 15th 2010 12:50


The Sea

When I sit by the lake
and I can't see the other side
it reminds me of home
on the sea's rocky shore.

I remember the wind in my face
the green land stretched out behind me
the sea stretching out in front
the only people me and my family
alone with the countryside of our ancestors.

When I sit by the lake
the wind blows in my face
polluted and murky Toronto air
and I dream that it is
the cool, clean wind of my homeland.

The blue horizon
blue water stretching into blue sky
calls me home;
and I tell the horizon
I can't be there yet,
but I'll come home soon.

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There is a spot by the lake where you cannot see the city. Every few days I pay this spot a visit. There's a stone bench on which I meditate. I ache for Scotland, the green cliffs and the blue sea that fades into blue sky. From the moment I left I've ached to go back. Never have I felt so at home as I did walking along the rocky shore from town to castle.

The home of my ancestors calls to me; it would become my home as well. The wind of my birth land tells me that I am to be part of something greater, something older, and that I must go to the home of my clan.

Someday I will make it. Someday I will not look out over a lake, but a sea, and even on the clearest day, I will not see the other side.

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Prompt of the Week: Alone

August 24th 2010 12:58


I'm all alone out here


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Prompt Of The Week

August 3rd 2010 12:36
Today's prompt is:

Dreams
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Renewing Your Commitment to Writing

July 29th 2010 12:14
Every writer has times-days, weeks, sometimes even months or at worst years-where they fall far short of their writing goals. Every writer gets caught up in something called life once in a while and time passes them by. And I'm sure every writer has at least once looked at a clock and gone 'it's that time already? I have to leave now and I didn't get any writing done'.

Personally, I've spent most of the last month not writing. I've written quite a bit of poetry-almost half a book of poetry, actually-but very few blog posts and even fewer novel chapters. I looked at a calendar just the other day and went 'where did July go


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Lots of Work And A Glimpse of The Future

April 15th 2010 12:51
This week is packed full of end-of-term work, trying to work on my novel, working handing out flyers for a few bucks, and of course, huge things in the works regarding this blog and my personal website. It's been a hard week, and I haven't gotten half the things on my to do list done. But I am proud of what I've accomplished, and I'm proud of what I'm going to be doing with this blog in the very near future.

Most of you are aware that next month I'm going to be doing a Dear Diary workshop here at the blog. This involves top secret planning, not only for what I'm going to be doing here, but what I'm going to be doing over on the Wriye boards. The lovely Erin, who not only runs Wriye but also Augno and a number of other writerly efforts, agreed to let me do this workshop in January


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Honesty

February 9th 2010 12:08
Honesty

Honesty


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Publication: I Dream Of Freedom

January 28th 2010 12:57
Yesterday my poem, I Dream of Freedom, was published at Uhuru. You can find the poem here (clicky).

Uhuru's mission is to raise awareness, and to raise money to help free children who are enslaved around the world. The writers don't get paid, but it gets your work out there and it's going to a good cause


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Why?

December 16th 2009 12:27
Why
do I love you?
Why


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Prompt: Dreaming Of You

September 29th 2009 01:32
Dreaming Of You
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I close my eyes


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Bleed-A Poetry Collection

September 20th 2009 18:17
I've been working on Bleed for quite some time now. I don't remember when exactly I started it, but I know it's a project that's been going on all summer and then some. For the last week or two I've been debating turning it into a free eBook, or having some of it come out as a free eBook and then later on the entire thing come out for a price.

I made my official decision today. I am going to release an excerpt of Bleed, which will include ten poems and an introduction. I haven't, as of yet, decided the best way to share this excerpt. I'm debating a couple of free file-sharing sites, as well as giving the file away for free on the website for A Cutter's Journey, or having people send me an email asking for the file/sign up to be a member at A Cutter's Journey so that I have their email and can email them a file containing the excerpt


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In A Dream

September 13th 2009 12:16
In A Dream

In a faded memory


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Poem: Alone

September 6th 2009 12:49
Alone
It was cold;
winter


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What I've Done This Week

September 4th 2009 12:31
So this week I've decided not to continue on with Eternia Falling. I need to do detailed worldbuilding for the time period before I can properly write the book. And that gets to wait until at least December, because right now I've got a lot of work to do for the Jihad series.

I've written several poems in the last week, and I wrote the three pages I need for the Phoenix, one page for Those Who Are/Those Who Have Always Been and two of the pages for Elwin's character bio, so I'm doing pretty well so far with the worldbuilding


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September Goals

September 3rd 2009 03:58
Goal setting is incredibly important for a writer. You need to have clear, concise goals that are achievable, and you need to know how to reach those goals, and make each step its own miniature goal.

Personally I've got a couple Big Goals which are more long-term and several smaller goals which mostly build towards reaching those Big Goals. For example, one of my Big Goals is to finish the rough draft of one of the books in the Jihad series by January 1st, 2010. Smaller goals reaching towards that include worldbuilding, character building and outlining


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5 Poetry Markets

September 2nd 2009 18:27
This is a list of paying poetry markets.

1. Chizine a magazine focusing on horror. Accepts fiction and book reviews as well as poetry. Pays US $10/poem


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Prompt: Heartache

August 31st 2009 13:10
Heartache
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My heart aches


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Hi Guys!

August 31st 2009 06:23
Hi everyone. First off, I'm back to my regular blogging schedule. I'm sorry for the rough week as far as posting is concerned. Posts will be regular again.

I had an amazing birthday weekend. I got the signatures of some great voice actors, got some buttons, a bookmark, two free mangas and a very long book to read written by a friend of mine. Some parts of it weren't so great but I was entirely satisfied after all-especially considering that all the signatures were stroke of luck last minute type things


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I'm Back

August 15th 2009 20:50
Anyone who commented on the posts I've made over the last few days will notice that their comments are now being responded to-and thanks to everyone who's been reading-as I am back from the cottage.

I had a great time. I did pretty much everything I wanted to do in terms of writing except outlining the pre-Nano course I have planned. I went swimming twice every day except yesterday, when I only got down to the beach once (I wish I could've gone twice though). I watched the sun rise and set on the beach, and we had lots of fun with fire


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