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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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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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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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10 Things To Look Forward To On Fictional Worlds

August 14th 2009 00:11
This is a list of ten things you can look forward to here on this blog over the coming year. I've been planning quite a few workshops and things to do around here to make life more interesting. I've also been debating making a forum for these workshops. Anyone who would be willing to help me run it should contact me at diannalgunn@gmail.com about it.

Here are some things you can expect to see


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2 Year Blogaversary

August 13th 2009 23:40
This is my official two year blogaversary for Fictional Worlds. Today, that is. So I'm writing a special post to talk about the last two years of my writing.

When I first came here, I had never had a poem published. I was completely unknown, unheard of, and no, I could not be found on Google. But I did have one good thing going for me: a talent and passion for writing


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Best Of...

July 30th 2009 05:34
So. My two-year anniversary of blogging is coming up. (Agust 13th) I've decided that on the date itself I will be doing a special post, thanking those who have inspired me since I came here, talking about why I blog etc. etc. It will also have links to some of my best posts since January.

I'm going to do four posts, total, in relation to this. Each one will contain 10 of my favourite posts from a certain time period since I've been here


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Developing Your Voice

July 8th 2009 23:20
I often see writers on various forums asking the same questions. Usually they're questions about things like chapter length, pacing, character building-all those important things. One of the most frequent questions asked isn't specifically about your story though-it's about developing your voice.

Writers ask 'How does one develop their voice


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Working Towards Your Goals

July 3rd 2009 12:51
As writers we must set goals. Without knowing where we want to go, how are we supposed to get there? Especially considering that writing can be such a vicious industry-when we're going for professional publication, we have to be twice as willing to do the work as when we're writing for friends or family.

But once we've written our goals, how do we push ourselves to achieve them


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Demons: Prompt

February 11th 2009 05:14
Demons

Demons; they haunt me each night in my dreams. They know my truth, they have seen my reality; the dark void I find myself trapped in, the void they cherish, the void they laugh in. Their cold laughter rings through the void, eating away at my cold soul. My soul cannot go on without further nourishment, it is dying, I am dying


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Learning

January 17th 2009 03:52
Writing is in large part a learning process. A writer needs to be open to new things; this is why we have classes and workshops and books about writing. Not all things will work for you, this is true. We're all different. You probably won't find a class that's absolutely perfect for you. A method won't always work.

But if you don't try new things, how can you possibly know? Everything changes; our writing should too. Let's take the example of a well known author, JK Rowling of the Harry Potter series


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Writing Goals 2009 AND Call for volunteers

December 23rd 2008 02:14
So I'm completely and utterly burnt out thanks to Nanowrimo followed by getting back to school followed by the endless week of Christmas. I've got the workshop 95% finished, and since it's almost the new year, here are my writing goals for the year:


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What makes a writer?

December 12th 2008 06:31
I've gone over this before, but I was reading a thread on Forward Motion earlier and it's been a while, so I felt like writing about this topic.

What makes a writer in my mind is someone who loves to write. Someone who can't help themselves; they just need to do it like most people need to breath. Writing is a passion, writing is a love; when the going gets tough we still keep going. Writers love to do what they do, and are willing to work at it


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When Everything Is Just Too Much

October 4th 2008 23:28
So let me tell you something. School is stressing me out; I'm trying to force myself to go but it isn't working very well. Things at home aren't pleasant either. I'm stressed; so stressed that I've been sick on and off for two weeks now. Nanowrimo is on the horizon.

It's times like these when anybody-writer or otherwise-starts to wonder about all their obligations and if they're worth it. It's times like these when normally I would abandon the blog for weeks at a time; I'm trying not to. It's sort of working. It's times like these when we just want to throw in the towel


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