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[deborahdeshoftim5779]

Another Sara Lubratt video, this time on building a writing schedule, and planning multiple series at the same time. 

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[queenofsilverlinings]

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10:52 PM, 4/6/2019

Topic: What kept you awake at night?

I recently attended a seminar about Mental Health Awareness called Labyrinth and I learned a lot about how to deal with mental health, how you should handle it or how can you help other people who has issues. And I have realized what a terrible friend I am because I made numerous mistakes, I told the wrong things to my friends, it probably was my fault why they don’t share their problems with me because I wasn’t really the best adviser nor a listener. This thought kept me awake at night, am I really a terrible friend?

In the seminar they told us that you shouldn’t always bring up God and say that “don’t worry, God has a purpose” or “pray ka lang” because it is not always appropriate but of course me being uneducated had always told that to my friends, I thought I was bringing them closer to God, because I couldn’t do anything so maybe I should just leave it to him, since He is almighty as we know then it would be easy just to have faith and believe in Him but of course I am wrong, they said it’s good that you have something that you believe in but let’s face it not all people view God the way you do and maybe after sometime you may talk about God to your friends who is suffering from depression, anxiety etc. but not the moment they open up because it’s not always appropriate.

I always compare my problems to theirs, I know this was a huge mistake because we have our own individuality, our own strengths and weaknesses that what I deem easy and small isn’t always the same with my friends, every time that they say something about what bothers them that I may have encountered already I always say “Eh bat nung ako kinaya ko naman?” or “Yun lang? Yun lang problema mo?” (Heckkk just even writing about this makes me feel bad), you should never belittle other people’s problem, because the impact of such problems varies from people to people, I didn’t know it back then. I thought letting them know that I have suffered the way they do will make them feel better, apparently not always. When your friend starts opening up, remember that it’s about them not about you, let them talk, let them take their time to pour their hearts out, let them hear themselves and just listen.

Another thing I want to highlight is this phrase that my Gself instructor told us “doesn’t mean that if you don’t experience it it’s not true” (Hindi porket di nangyayare sayo, hindi na totoo). Huge is such an understatement when you describe the world, the universe rather to think that it revolves around you, I know it’s easy to get caught up in the moment, but in reality just like how the sun shines on the other side of the planet the other side is in darkness. This was a realization that I had a few years back but I never really thought that I will write something about this because I thought its insignificant because people will realize it soon anyways, but I think I need to become a catalyst, I need to tell people that the world is different now, there are certain things that you must be aware of, you must be sensitive to other people’s suffering because our greatest nightmare is slowly turning into reality. This is the truth, we cannot change the world, but we can make a difference. Empathy. Everyone knows about it but not everyone has it do you? I hope I do have it in me because if not then what am I here for?

I don’t know if my friends know this but I love them so much, every single one of them. That every night I lie in bed my mind keeps on reflecting on the things that I did, was it bad? Was I insensitive? Was I wrong? Should I apologize? Should I? I wanted to apologize to them because I wasn’t matured enough to listen to their problems, not courageous enough to actually be there for them. But I’m all better now, I promise. I’ve learned a lot, you can now share your problems with me again, do you still trust me? I hope you do.

[ibukunwrites]

. . . 'cause it feels so good to be back to blogosphere. . . and because I'm bringing them personal/travel diaries back. . . SEPTEMBER is all about my experiences as a carless Nigerian Single Girl😉. . . Episode 1 is up tomorrow. . . set, ready. . . who's looking forward to this?????😊 ___________ . . . And yes, I'd be taking features to be shared on the blog every Thursdays! So, if you have a Public Transport Diary and would love to share, why not! Write and send it to my mail in bio and be very sure I'd post them (I hope you guys won't leave me hanging😁😁😁)! Looking forward to them. . . _________ #ibukunwrites #nigeriangirl #publictransport #traveldiaries #publictransportdiaries #personaldiaries #diaries #blogosphere #blogger #writer #writing #lifestyle #art #blogging #blogpost #instawrite #writersofinstagram #lifestyleblogger #personalblogger #christianblogger #writersofig #nigerianblogger #writingseries

[poodleshares-blog]

This is a 3 Chapter series, diving in some old memories and making the new ones.

[otherpplnation]

777. Sloane Crosley

Sloane Crosley is the author of the novel Cult Classic, available from MCD/FSG.

Crosley is the author of The New York Times bestselling essay collections, I Was Told There’d Be Cake (a 2009 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and How Did You Get This Number, as well as Look Alive Out There (a 2019 finalist for The Thurber Prize for American Humor) and the bestselling novel, The Clasp. She served as editor of The Best American Travel Writing series and is featured in The Library of America's 50 Funniest American Writers, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Phillip Lopate’s The Contemporary American Essay and others. She was the inaugural columnist for The New York Times Op-Ed "Townies" series, a contributing editor at Interview Magazine, and a columnist for The Village Voice, Vanity Fair, The Independent, Black Book, Departures and The New York Observer. She is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Her next nonfiction book, Grief Is for People, will be published in 2023. She lives in New York City.

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I’m moving back to individual poetry/prose posts for the time being. I will be doing a linked series of poems again in the future! . . . . . . . . . . . . . #poetry #hope #poet #poetrycommunity #writersofinstagram #life #poem #instagram #author #writer #newbeginning #metoo #escape #poetsofinstagram #inappropriate #art #poems #thoughts #spilledwords #writingseries #instagood #lackoftrust #justice #stoptheabuse #everyonematters #like #mentalhealthmatters #words #entrapment #likes https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMdh5bloHf/?igshid=1rj9b2aqg5pw1

[girlwiththepurplepen]

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[sfwordsmith]

Sunday Stories 18 - Under the light of the Red Giant

The Finale of my Sunday Stories #FlashFiction #writingseries. Sunday Stories 18 - Under the light of the Red Giant

The walls crumbled after a century of conflict. The cries of statesmen and widows and orphans accompanied the trumpets declaring the people’s freedom. Footsteps of soldiers made the earth quake under their might. The chants of the enlightened rose up against them. The intellectuals receded to their secret circles, knowing well what would come next, a new system, a new culture, a new King to…

[kessilover]

MerganaWritingSeries: They might have failed to keep their love alive inside of Camelot, but Morgana was more than willing to try and save it outside of it.

[stephaxine]

Writing: How to Stay Focused on Your Project

Hey there! Today I’m going to talk about staying focus on you project or book or story. But anyways I don’t really know what to say but my mind just thought of a thing.

Some writers are starting a new book while they are still writing another book. At first I was a victim of this thing. Well I don’t know if I’m only the one. But I found out something.

Your not gonna write another book if your not bored writing the main book your writing. Some people are like these people so find an INSPIRATION to keep you writing the main book.

Tip: IF YOUR WRITING TWO BOOKS AT A TIME, IT WILL GONNA BE HARD. I’VE BEEN THERE AND I’VE LEARNED MY LESSON.

I’m not saying don’t write two books at the same time, if you can and you want too then do it. But beware It’s so hard, it messed up my books 

So back to the main thing.

Stay focused, how?

FIND INSPIRATION, to keep you going and to keep you excited to reach the end.

[willingtomiss-blog]

Keep my old bridges there

I want to tell you guys a little story. I had a friend... His name was Tommy. I sometimes think I was in love with Tommy but I'm not really sure because I was eight and well, when you're eight you can't possibly know what love is. That's what they all say anyway, but who knows maybe I was in love with him and maybe not knowing and being a little clueless is the answer to love all along. 

Anyway, Tommy, wow he was brilliant. He wasn't brilliant in the "I get good grades" brilliant, but gosh even at eight I knew he was something special. He talked about really important stuff and I think it might be because his parents were getting a divorce and so he had this... Different perception of life than most eight year old kids do. I mean, here I was thinking about what dress I would wear tomorrow for school pictures and Tommy, well, he was thinking about how he would afford to get separate Christmas gifts for his parents since they wouldn't be living in the same house. 

So anyway, one day I picked up a flower and I asked Tommy if he thought this flower was pretty. It sparked in a different way in the field. Among the white there was this beautiful little flower and it was pink and I thought, wow, God placed that flower right there of all places. So I asked Tommy what he thought of the flower and he told me that it didn't mean anything to him but that I should keep it. I was a little curious, so I asked him why should I keep it if it didn't mean anything. & I think his answer right then and there taught me more about life than any class or trips to Sunday school ever did. 

He told me, "It makes you happy. If it means something to you and if it makes you happy then you keep those things in your life. You don't throw it away just because it doesn't mean something to just another anyone... You keep it. You'll remember it and maybe you'll smile about it again one day."  & those words, gosh it's crazy to believe that an eight year old boy said that. But that's life right. You keep the things you love and you keep them close to you because one day they'll wilt away or get a divorce or even worse... Just die. & one day you're going to want to remember those things that made you happy. So you keep the happy. You keep YOUR happy. You keep it. You remember it & you smile about it. 

Song: Out on My Own - Gabrielle Aplin 

[sfwordsmith]

Sunday Stories: Volume 4 - Do Not Disturb

Sunday Stories: Volume 4 - Do Not Disturb #flashfiction #writingseries #writer #writingcommunity

A pair of blood shot hazel eyes peered through the blinds of a dingy motel bedroom window, looking down from the second floor toward the parking lot, scanning quickly before darting back out of sight behind the cheap plastic covering once more.

A quick tug on Jason’s sleeve reminds him that he’s not alone.

“Dad, what are you looking for?” Asked the child, just a day over seven years old.…