#Literary Blog

[selenepluto]

"We humans are so obsessed with escapism, through movies, books, art, music , and daydreams. Our souls truly aren't made for this world."

~unknown

[gildedbearediting]

Writing Exercise: Flashback

Today’s cue card writing exercise is straightforward and quick. Remember, if you recognize these cue card exercise then let me know where I got them from in order to properly credit the source. Alright, let’s get to it. Start with these memory prompts: 5 years ago… When I was a teen… My father used to… Keep it short, use the senses. Include important setting details and dialogue. You can use…

[shoppersinsight-blog]

When William Shakespear said:

[shecrowss]

Frankenstein

my opinion on the creature

In one of my classes we are currently reading Frankenstein and everyone in my class hates creature, so I’m here to play the devils, pun intended, advocate for him. The creature is quite literally just misunderstood. I don’t agree with the murders he’s committed because yea, but at the end of the day he’s just a victim of his situation. Victor is so self abosrved with himself that he believes the creature to be “evil” because he is not capable of holding himself accountable, and mind you he doesn’t get no where near as much hate as creature when it could be argued Victor is at fault for all of it.

He was the one who made creature and maybe if Victor had some human decency at took responsibility for essentially the child he made, creature wouldn’t have gone onto murder William. All creature wanted was a friend after his father abandoned him but no, because humanity shunned him and thus made him foster a resentment for humanity. All of his actions stem from a result of Victor creating and promptly abandoning him. So maybe what he did isn’t right but it sure as hell is justified. He didn’t even mean to kill William, sure kidnapping a kid isn’t much better, but that only reason he did that was so he would have a friend who would shun him for being ugly because he raised him.

My last point is just proving how creature isn’t that bad when you compare him to Victor. I could make a whole list with the crimes Victor has committed: grave robbing, child neglect, improper disposal into a body of water, and that list probably goes on. But no one talks about this because it doesn’t compare to murder, and while Victor hasn’t murdered anyone, it does not make him a saint by far. He neglected his child and only when he was going to make a second one realized “yea maybe this isn’t a good idea”. He generalized the creatures species because he was to self absorbed to take creatures account into matter, which he heard mind you, and say that he must be evil even though he heard both sides of the stories because he is incapable of admitting his fault.

So yea creature is not evil and arguably in my opinion Victor is worse than creature will ever be.

ps. pardon all grammar mistakes i wrote this in like 10 mins after my class

[amouriterature]

"...there is something so awful, something so gross about watching someone who loves you struggle to believe what you both knew, deep down, is partially a lie."

-An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender (pg. 148)

[spillinginkwells]

About

I feel as though the inked pages and the written word and the worlds that exist in between them, have always been my solace. I remember, as a preschooler, crawling into my mother’s lap with my storybook in hand, begging her to read to me. I remember starting my first novel at the age of seven and never looking back. Books became my religion, flipping through their delicate pages, my sacrament.  

It is almost impossible to be spared from the compulsion of penning down your own words when you make the written word your holy communion. And so I, too, succumbed to the inevitability of becoming a wordsmith. Perhaps not one with indomitable skill but definitely possessing a beguiling passion for her craft.

Spilling Inkwells is my personal sanctuary where I create a landscape of my musings, experiences and love for the written word.

[diastolicprose]

Shades of Man

Exhibit 1: The Burgundy Hour

Welcome to the Burgundy Hour

The time and space where love and desire blurs

When shame and guilt come in second

Where passion and broken hearts are currency

Flesh burns with hunger

Heaven is just a downtown drive

Velvet shirts clings to skin like sin

Peppered with tiny holes

Like bullet wounds to the heart

Night smells like old perfume spilled

Lungs filled with cigarette smoke

And blinding scarlet mist

Intoxicating rum, cedar and regret

In alleyways, backdoor restrooms

Inside fleshy mounds of skin and heat

Strangers feels like lovers

Bruises hidden in sad neon lights

Cheap wines and expensive hobbies

In the burgundy hour,

Broken hearts, longing and grief - comes in excess

Beware of the Burgundy Hour - it consumes and consumes

[vangarcia01]

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[bluexari]

ARI BLUE BLOG

ari blue

Sobre mi!

Hola todo mundo! Soy Ari, una chica de 25 años que todavía está intentando entender la vida a través de la escritura, la música y la lectura. Siempre me apasiono leer (casi siempre sin importar el género), escribir o simplemente crear una pequeña critica/reseña en base a mis lecturas. Soy Beta Reader, Correctora literaria, Lectora Editorial, y en algunas ocasiones he escrito y traducido textos de manera anónima para personas cercanas a mi circulo.

Es por eso que decidí crear esta cuenta en primer lugar. Porque he estado en Tumblr por años –solo que no en este blog-, y creí que era momento de ponerlo en uso para algo mas que solo leer fics. Así que aquí estoy, intentando llegar a ustedes con mis ideas.

Sobre mi blog:

Este es mi segundo blog que quiero usar como un blog literario. (Pueden encontrar mi otro blog sobre fics y one shots en ingles en @aribluedreams) Por lo pronto, aquí encontraran todo mi trabajo; informes editoriales, reseñas cortas de mis libros favoritos, escritos, recursos, consejos sobre la literatura y escritura en general, entre otros.

También, aquí debajo les dejo una guía con todos los trabajos que he hecho hasta el momento, por si quieren pasar a verlos!

-MASTERLIST! (una lista de lo que puedo hacer)

My social media:

Instagram. (bookstagram)

Wattpad.

Fic tumblr

Fable (book club)

Substack

Busca Libre

[lovelettersandjournals]

— james joyce.

[maninmauve]

International Read to Me Day

With International Read to Me Day coming up on March 19th, I’m reminded of a goal that I had in mind for myself when I started my site. I had planned on narrating classical works, and perhaps even my own. It wasn’t a lofty goal that was on daunting heights, but rather something that I could work towards. Something that I could build on, and work on as I get myself settled into an online…

[selenepluto]

"Of course I wanted to see the world, to experience its fullness. I wanted to be a real part of it, rather than the passing shadow I so often felt like. I wanted to devour the world."

Saeed Jones, How We Fight For Our Lives.

[gildedbearediting]

Writing Exercise: Letter to my Love

In this cue card exercise, there will be three steps. First, fill out the following details about Marlene, who’s in love with someone at prison. She has [blonde, brunette, ravenette, white, greying, dyed] hair, and [blue, green, brown, hazel, grey, heterochromia] eyes. She has a voice that’s like [pick your descriptor]. She loves [genre] music and [this] is her favourite movie star. She shops…

[shoppersinsight-blog]

Friedrich Nietzsche, unpublished works

[diet-mountain-dew-nyc]

"I wanted to be unforgettable. Indelible. I wanted to haunt their hearts and minds—to be everywhere and nowhere, spectacular and out of reach. Only in the chaos did it dawn on me. Being remembered is not the same as being missed."

[amouriterature]

review of an invisible sign of my own by aimee bender

Stars: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

LOVED Mona. She is so incredibly in her own world, selfish, perceptive, anxious, realistic, delusional, manic-pixie-dream-girl, truly a walking contradiction. She wants for so much, has a lust for life, while simultaneously being the biggest quitter on the entire planet.

Her relationships with others are beyond interesting because of all this aspects of who she is and I adore it. Her gritty, filthy desire for her crush while being totally ruled by her fear of intimacy and (subsequentially) guilt, is beyond real.

Overall, I've never read about a more unreliable source/ unlikeable MC that I enjoy to such a high degree. Mona is just so girl, I've never felt more connected/ protective of a character in my life.

Not to mention Bender's witty language and impeccable dialogue throughout the entire novel. Her prose and undercutting whit is absolutely lethal and delicious. The whole read was a fever dream and I viciously miss it since finishing.