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Write Every Day (Or try to)

Write Every Day (Or try to)

It’s not easy. But as a writer, one of the best way to not let those writing muscles atrophy is to keep using them daily.But, Ilzz, how do I do that when the words just won’t flow?Writing every day doesn’t mean working on your manuscript every day. Write a poem, pull out a journal or a diary, jot down a short story. The idea is just to keep working those creative juices. What I’ve found about��

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#29PlaysLater - Day 4 - By and By

#29PlaysLater – Day 4 – By and By

Give me six characters, and gosh darn it, my overambitious soul decided to go whole hog and then some. 34 pages.I didn’t plan on writing that much, believe you me. But then I wrote down the names of my characters. And I wrote each characters background and the interesting way each of their stories connected. Before I knew it, I had a story surrounding two brothers, one of their wives, one fiancé,…

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#29PlaysLater - Day 3 - Don't Touch Me

#29PlaysLater – Day 3 – Don’t Touch Me

I didn’t know this was where this brief would take me. The brief for Play #3 talks about fear. And that fear that has been haunting me is what I write about. I came across the phobias, Contreltophobia and Agraphobia, both of which are fear of sexual abuse. Before I knew it, I was telling my story in the form of song lyrics. Songs, songs speak to the heart and the soul. So I told my story threaded…

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Those Jagged Edges - My First Book

Those Jagged Edges – My First Book

Hello Everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve posted on here, but I figured I’d come back with a bang and share that I just published my first book (self-published) through Amazon. It’s a book of poetry titled, Those Jagged Edges. Currently out now on eBook: https://read.amazon.com/kp/card?asin=B096HFZT5W&preview=inline&linkCode=kpe&ref_=cm_sw_r_kb_dp_3RW0FFJBB00HY35ZN9W7 Life is a series of…

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Everyday Every Day - Play #2 - 29 Plays Later

Everyday Every Day – Play #2 – 29 Plays Later

This was a tough one for me. Tough, not in the emotional sense, but the idea-crafting sense. Tried to see where the words would take me based on Brief 2. I’m part German, so I sort of went back to some of those roots for this one. Disclaimer: Due to the nature of this challenge, research time is limited. So, there would be more extensive research done if this play were to go beyond this…

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#GirlDad - Play #1 - 29 Plays Later

#GirlDad – Play #1 – 29 Plays Later

Reposting: On February 1, 2020, #29PlaysLater, put together by The Literal Challenge, kicked off. I plan to share all of my plays here, but I’m having a hard time posting my first one. My heart is heavy. Even before the first brief was sent out. I already knew what I wanted to write about. The tweeted brief hint was a picture of two peas in a pod. And how perfect it was for what ideas I already…

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In the end...

In the end…

I would like to dedicate my first music posting to the late Chester Bennington.

Songs are a beautiful thing. You can lose yourself in them. You can leave your world, your circumstance, and your pain in them. Songs can whisk you away to another dimension of emotions. Music has always helped me get through the painful times. It…

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Game of Thrones

What can I say, that hasn’t already been said? Actually, quite a bit. As a writer myself, I know the painstaking work that is put into creating something new, intriguing, etc. How do you hold your audience, keep them captivated, honor your story and your characters, and so much more? Building a brand-new world is no easy task, let me say that. And there were so many moving parts the writers of…

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Is love a fancy or a feeling… or a Ferrars? Sense and Sensibility (1995) dir. Ang Lee

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#365Challenge #Day16 #Believe

You took me by surprise

With your big smile

And jovial laugh.

You took me by surprise

With your little anecdotes,

Wise words and witty jokes.

You took me by surprise

When you were there and didn’t leave

When you said “It’s going to be okay, kiddo!”

You took me by surprise

When you gave me shelter from the storm

And hope to dream of the future.

You took me by surprise

When I became yours,

A part…

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#365Challenge #Day15 #Fire

Can you feel my heartbeat?

I feel yours

It’s faster the closer I get.

My fingers tingle at your touch.

Do I do to you what you do to me?

Can you feel my heartbeat?

I feel the deep thuds of yours beating in your chest

As I lay my head against your skin.

Do you feel me near?

Do I set your pulse on fire?

Can you feel my heartbeat?

I think yours skipped one

As I leaned in for a kiss.

Did my fingers…

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#365Challenge #Day14 #Love

What is love? Can you see it? Can you touch it? Is it tangible?

What is love? Is it hard to show it? Does it just come naturally?

What is love? Is it in the simple things? Or the grand gestures?

What is love? Is it from the heart? Or from the soul? Is it both?

What is love? Is it unconditional? Is it forever?

What is love? Does it mend? Or does it break?

What is love? Is it unspeakable? Does it…

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#365Challenge #Day13 #Friendship

“Lizzie,” Amelia called from the balcony. “Come quickly.”

“What is it?” Lizzie called back, running up from inside the farmhouse as quickly as she could.

“Look,” Amelia pointed out into the grassy field.

Little lights flickered and glowed, disappeared, and quickly came back again.

“Fireflies,” Lizzie whispered. “They came.”

“Of course, they did, you goose,” Amelia teased her best friend. “They…

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#365Challenge #Day12 #Jump

Lessie walked through the deep underbrush, parting branches along her way. The rain was coming down so thick that she could barely see her hand in front of her face. She had ignored her commanding officer’s orders to stay at the camp and had gone out into the forest where she had swore she saw a ship go down. She had laughed to herself when she had left, for what could the commander do, pull…

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#365Challenge #Day11 #Outside

“Where is she?” He asked, running his hands through his hair. He looked distraught and disheveled, like he hadn’t slept in days.

Dustin looked up at the man speaking to him, from the table outside the cafe where he sat with baby Emylin in his lap. “Do I know you?” He asked the young man standing there dressed in fatigues and a black beret on his head.

“Lucy,” The military man responded, barely…

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#365Challenge #Day10 #Inside

Pain encapsulated her body from every angle and she felt like was drowning from the inside out. She knew it would be over soon, or at least, she prayed it would. What choice did she have, but to just wait it out?

Lucy opened her eyes and looked around her. The room she sat in was almost empty, save for one person sitting in the chair across the hall from her. They held a book up in front of their…