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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.

Not just to be able to write a bunch of sentences and put them together so they make sense. Sorry. The rules of writing are simple....

1-Write a lot
2-Read a lot
3-If at first you don't succeed, try, try again

In other words 1-write AND FINISH STUFF, 2-READ AND FINISH BOOKS and 3-rewrite and try many publishers and agents if it's good enough.


I don't have much else to say tonight 'cause I'm sick but please don't say you're a writer... if writing isn't your passion.
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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.

Writing is good for providing people with entertainment. It's good for telling stories, for showing metaphors. Good for thought and comparisons, diagnosis. Or good for pure fun. For an escape from reality (thank you Queen). A way to get away.

Writing is also a good way to be noticed. Writing is good for gaining awareness. Writing is good for a lot of things. It's good for getting your opinion out. For pointing out the nitty gritty and challenging society's rules and thoughts, opinions and stigmas. For going against the status quo.


Both of those paragraphs describe why I write. And guess what? I think it's damn well about time I start doing some writing to raise awareness. Because I'm sick of watching people destroy the earth. I'm sick of watching us all ruin this planet. And I'm sick of watching humanity make itself extinct.

How am I going to do anything?

With much hard work and difficulty. But I will. That, my friends, is a promise. One I will keep, unless I die tonight.
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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.

Writing was there when Daddy was on his deathbed. I wrote then. I write now. I will always write, so long as I live and breath.

And one day, I hope, maybe this writing will affect the world. Maybe I CAN make a difference. Maybe I can make people see just how hard it really is to live. Maybe.

All these maybes and only one certainty.

I'll damn well try.
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A Lack Of Drive

March 11th 2008 00:47
I haven't been writing much and to be honest a lot of my drive seems to have disappeared with a stressful weekend. I'm sick, lacking smokes, possibly being broken up with, among other things.

It sucks to be me. And when it sucks to be me... sometimes that's good for my writing, other times it's horrible. Right now it's horrible


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Writing Is My Work

February 27th 2008 04:40
Writing is my work, my passion, my joy in life. Writing is everything to me; it is the one thing I have had for six years, the one thing that I rely on and trust in.

And there may be something called a 'day job' but I'm praying I'll never need one. I guess I didn't really see much hope until that publication. Now I'm out searching for more of the same and I'm ridiculously happy


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Back

February 14th 2008 12:41
Have you ever noticed that the best writers go through some of the hardest times? I cannot begin to describe to you how much I have suffered in the last two months. I was fighting with my mother; I went into an open relationship before being dumped by a guy I'm completely head over heels with, I managed to fail all my first semester classes, and I suffered a hospital overnight after which I became severely stress sick for over a week.

All writers go through times like these. And I have written so much and been so inspired during this whole time that I'm almost grateful for the pain. In the end though, it all worked out well


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Writing for yourself

January 25th 2008 01:04
There are those who write for money; those who write for others; but in the end, the best of us are those who write for passion, for themselves before all others.

Writing for yourself is one of the most rewarding activities in the world. When you write for yourself, there's a certain pleasure gained. You write because you love to write, and when you do that, the words can pour out


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A Notebook-The Poor Man's Laptop

January 24th 2008 03:36
As a writer, odds are you're going to want to write outside of your home, quite plausibly away from your desktop. And we're not all rich enough for a laptop.

This post is, in essence, the guide to stationary. Starting with notebooks


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To Be A Writer

January 23rd 2008 05:16
The arts; very few of us competely lack passion for all of them. I have a passion for most of them, even if I don't have a talent for them. Each and every last one of them is a cut-throat business in which it's a one in a million chance you'll succeed in.

And to walk along an artsy path is difficult. But for those of us truly passionate about our writing, we will walk along it, we will travel, and we will try and try again where others might give up and walk away


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Writing Work

January 22nd 2008 21:26
I'm praying right now. Praying that I'll get a big gigantic break in my writing. I'm looking for places to submit one of my short stories to (the one that's been sent around and around) and praying that someday SOMETHING will come along.

Right now I'm also on the lookout for poetry competitions and publishers. I'm looking everywhere and hoping that something soon will come through. Within a couple weeks I should know if one of my pieces is getting published


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Writing Is Difficult Without Computer

January 20th 2008 00:35
I've got very, very limited computer access right now (as in I only have it at my bf's), so my writing is flopping and so is my blogging.

But I AM alive. Yay.
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Writing Work

January 14th 2008 16:11
I'm coming back with a vengeance. I'm writing again-yay-and I'm looking for places and web opportunities to submit to. I'm looking for places to put my writing again.

Right now I'm praying that somehow I'll find a way to become a writer within two years, a way to earn the money to get out of this hellhole I'm forced to call home


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Been Sick But I'm Back Into It

January 14th 2008 04:16
I've been getting hugely back into my writing as I recover from my stress sickness. I'm getting seriously into it because I want to make a career out of this.

This is my life, this is my dream, this is my career. It is everything to me and it is my only passion-honestly, it's the only thing other than my spirituality that I care about


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...Silence...

January 11th 2008 01:47
The words of the mind are silenced and darkened by those of the world around you; the fury at being here is too much for you to bear. You leave, you run away, you stay away.

And then you go back. They come to see you-and ask to see your forearms


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