Marie Daniels is Writing
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3 days ago
I am now publishishing some of my articles on Bukisa. If you would like to freelance write and earn some money you can sign up here: http://www.bukisa.com/join/32907
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How to write more
It made me
Serene and euphoric
 "The books "Right to Write" & "Writing down the Bones" plus working on completing NaNoWriMo2008"
How I did it: I am making writing into a daily practice. I write every single day now...anywhere from 20 to 100+ minutes per day. I do "morning pages" every day, and have for quite a few years. I read about them in Julia Cameron's "The Artist's Way". Then I read books like "The Right to Write" and "Writing down the Bones" and I make sure to complete at least one or two of the exercises every day. In addition, I use art as therapy and try to write down any difficult or overwhelming emotion, positive or negative, all throughout the day. I write prayers, lists, poems, single lines that just "come to me"...I record my dreams. I keep a notebook with me at all times, and try to keep in the writer's mindset at all times by writing whenever I have an extra few minutes. I go to Starbucks a couple of times per week before class, and I write for an hour or two there. Now I am trying to write for 10 minutes every night before I go to bed, in addition to all this. They are like morning pages, but done late at night, right before sleeping. I read about them in "The Right to Write"... Lessons & tips: Get good advice from good writers. I highly recommend anything by Julia Cameron, as well as "Writing down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg. Schedule your writing in every day, and make it the strongest, most set-in-stone commitment you have. Do your morning pages every day, and do your artist's dates every week...make your health and happiness and creativity your top priority above all else...a little narcissism never killed anybody ;)
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wildcreations has much to do.
Deadlines are good
3 days ago
I am loving the Advanced Creative Writing course. Ok some of it is hard, the next assessment is to turn a short story into a play, I’m sure I’ll work it out.
But now I’ve got all these ideas and I’m really starting to think about doing an MA, except that reading about all the courses it looks like I need a degree first! More work then.
dreambig0608 Live for today...
Untitled
1 week ago
Note to self:
Just remember as your working on this goal to also write up lists on your favorite websites, movies, etc. as well.
My newest site discovered thanks to another member is futureme.org
a few first steps
1 week ago
one : i’ve gotten back into xanga. here, i just write about my life and my feelings. my exbest friend, who i still trust with everything, is the only one who really reads them, but they’re just giant rants to get everything off my chest.
two : i’ve signed up for a fanfiction.net account. as a freshman/sophomore, i avoided fanfics like the plague, not wanting to “ruin” the original story. however, i read “broken”, a harry potter fanfic that moved me to tears, multiple times, and everything changed. i’ve been reading a new one every night, frequently staying up past 4 in the morning to finish the last few chapters. i’m going to start writing tonight. maybe a harry potter fanfic, i’ve been really into those. i feel like a giant nerd doing it, but i have to.
three : a few weeks ago, i went out and bought a huge pack of spiral notebooks. i’ve been jotting down the beginnings of stories, working on old ones. i’ll write a seperate entry about that in a few minutes.
i feel like, if i blog every day or every other day, and if i update fanfics daily or every other day, and if i write in my stories every night, i’ll probably be writing somewhere around an hour a day, maybe a little more. i feel like i can improve my writing greatly. that’s my goal here.
Scarlett has the mean reds
writing - the act of creating written works;
2 weeks ago
Slowly, but steadily, I’m starting to get back to the miraculous world of creative writing (or creative nonfiction, if you please) and it feels wonderful. I have a history of getting excited and then losing interest but I hope I continue writing this time around. As much as I love this site, keeping a blog here never felt too natural, entries written here are meant to track the process of completing a goal and that’s the way I like it. Of course I’ve posted a lot of thoughts under different goals but it feels a little weird to have entries scattered around the site, although they are all under my name on my page. I felt like I needed a proper blog, too.
What I’ve noticed is that I absolutely love writing reviews, especially of books! I might not always follow a traditional way of writing a review, but expressing my thoughts and feelings about a certain book (or a movie or an album) makes me feel exhilarated, and I love it. When there is no pressure of deadlines or minimum word count or the likes, it also makes the whole writing process that much more enjoyable. I used to love book reviews in high school and I was fairly good at writing them as well – in Finnish, that is. Now that I’m trying my hand at English reviews, I also hope to perfect my writing skills and increase my vocabulary!
Here’s hoping. :)
arensonam is mad no one cares
anymore
2 weeks ago
can u feel my pain anymore…. can u hear me anymore… can love me anymore… there is more me than anything… so i ask u if u love me anymore…. i would love to love u all the time… the time to stop loving anymore… before i go i want to know if u love me anymore…. i can’t u anymore… ur heart beats gone or evermore….but why can’t u love me so how can i hold on to u… here my love and here her’s who do u want in life if she can’t and i can’t clean…. what does want anymore becaus i’m i’m tired…... i refuse to be ur slave anymore to bad u cry for her but as always i’ll love u for ever and ever… sso please tell me if u love me.
Rose1029 “Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.” - Patricia Hampl
Random Modern Musings
3 weeks ago
Sometimes on my phone, I’ll just quickly text a note to myself about random thoughts. So here are just a few of them…
- Is it easier to be a martyr than to be brave? Does settling mean giving in?
-The day will never come when I need to say what I want to say. I push it down until it becomes a black hole in the pit of my stomach.
-We let it die so why don’t we bury it together?
-I almost choked on your words because they sounded like a joke. Sadly, they were not.
-I think our happy endings have different characters in them.
-Why do I laugh the loudest when it’s silent elsewhere.
-Time is beginning to eclipse this usual ebb and flow.
-My heart stops when I hear that song even though I know it shouldn’t. It hurts to know that melody is for someone else’s love.
-Your condescending ways make me want to punch you in the face.
-It’s not a favor when they’re your kids too.
-Why do I feel bad about loving you?
this works
3 weeks ago
NaNoWriMo
fersure!
www.nanowrimo.org
the problem is keeping up the habit for the other 11 months XD
LIFE
1 month ago
Every day man kind strugles
To survive in this pafetik world.
And for what?
For finding peace of mind
And love.
It is pontles.
To find true peace you must be
A calm person and beleve that
This world is perfect and
Nothing is going to destroy
It’s beuty.
But then you must lie to your self.
Ewery day we hurt our self by
Thinking we can one day fall in
Love whit someone
It migh be for ewer,
But eventualy that love faints
And we are left whit just a
Memory of it.
And if that love is reseved it
Might leed to somthing but it
Also may brake your heart
Once again.
We are cuting our life short buy
Macking stupid choises.
But life whit out love is empty
And shalow.
It is the point of life.
Living whit out it is worse than
Living whit a broken hear.
When your heart is broken it
Hurts for as long as you love
The person that you where with.
But when your heart heals you
Understand that life is pontles
Whit out sufering.
You would newer know what is
True pain.
And if your heart brakes when
You are an old man it hurts more
Than haweing your hear broken 7
Tmes whil your still young.
It is a beutiful thing one way
Or an other. When you realy
Love somone that love stays
In your heart 4Ewer.
ira_pacifist is staying at home & happy!
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1 month ago
A friend and I have just started a novel, o that may spur me on. I have been on hiatus for a while. For almost two years, coming to think of it.
