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AnnaLeBelle posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 1 month, 4 weeks agoWriting is complex. It both binds you and sets you free. The key is to write for your own sanity, your own pleasure, instead of other’s. If a writer strays from this path, he/she would become lost and manipulated by other people and his work wouldn’t have the same quality. A writer expresses his/her own feelings in one of the most raw forms: it’s the cleanest one, but also the most difficult. Writing anything takes a good head and a extreme heart.
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Mark Irving posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 7 months, 2 weeks agoA writer is a prostitute. Putting words on paper is how we sell ourselves. Instead of letting the customer run a tongue across our body we offer up our souls. You need to be on the corner, waiting on the motel bed, or posing for a pornographic picture on the internet to make money as a prostitute. You must ENTICE the John and cannot rely on the fact they will be coming to you. So it is for the writer. You must constantly present yourself in order to inhale the profit. I’m here to find a customer. Want to lick my mind?
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”Want to lick my mind?” – What a great line! And, what an offer!
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Abra posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 7 months, 2 weeks agoWhat I see grabs at my heart and gets pulled inward. Empthay and sypthamy follow observation time after time again. But there’s something about experiencing through your own eyes…not through a book, or a website page. I don’t think experience gets enough credit. When you read or are told a story about an experience you don’t feel with your own sight or see anything first hand. But when experiencing you see not only through your own eyes, but you feel with your own hands; you feel with the hands on your wrists and the hands inside the pupils of your eyes. When you experience life all your senses are alive, none are suppressed, in fact, you start to create more. Living in the moment is feeling, seeing, touching, hearing, and tasting with your eyes. You have to surrender to what you think is possible. When you actually start to live, you start giving what small slither of the universe has caught your eye, one hundred percent of your precious and limited time. Living in the moment is sinking into your sourroundings and realzing how perfect the universe’s conditions are just then, just now. Chemistry and physics present to you, the privallalge to sit and be at peace here and now. If there is peace inside of you, you are apart of the mission to spread your being. Spread and create new sciences and senses. Surrender to your limitations. You are only as smothered as you allow yourself to be. breath easy.
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5arahZ0ey posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 9 months, 4 weeks agoWriters need determination – the pen may be mightier than the sword, however, struggles with blank pages are still constants of everyday life.
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Dingus posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 10 months agoI always make more sense when I see the words in front of me. I speak in cryptic sentences mostly to myself no matter how large a crowd I am in. Letting my fingers interpret my brain is easy and much more interesting than what I hear when I open my mouth. I think therefore I write.
It has something to do with the fact that I took typing 3 times in high school. A trail I was able to go down because I went to 3 different high schools and 1 of them twice.
Each year the registrar at the new school would come up with a ”free period” and offer me a choice of ”electives” to take. I always chose typing because the odds were good I would be the only or among a very small group of males who would take the course. And the odds were always just as good that the balance of the class would be taken up by girls, looking to reach independence and get out of the present Dodge they found themselves in and move on to womanhood with a skill to make money right away. Get their own place preferably as far away from where we all sat each day typing away and thinking of being somewhere, anywhere, but where we were.-
I often do the same – people often ask what I mean or where I get these ideas from! I did not go to more than one high school, however, I have been to seven schools altogether. Only did a typing class twice though (I was rather unsuccessful at touch typing both times, can still only type ”normally”).
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Despite the repeated lessons I have never been able to and still cannot type normally. Once I engage a keyboard my brain takes a vacation. What I am coming to realize that it is a very nice vacation worth the plane trip and cost of admission.
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Abra posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 11 months agowriters and coffee go well together. hello 1o’clock in the morning..
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unkitjc posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 11 months, 2 weeks agoA good mix of words to make a piece worth reading never came by force. Inspiration or subject always lead the way. Follow one’s instinct, never try hard to write something your talent doesn’t agree with.
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unkitjc posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 11 months, 2 weeks agoTo be a writer, I write as if i were reading not my work but someone else’s, to me I am my easiest critic, but to someone else’s work I am more critical
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Solanaceae posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 1 year, 2 months agoTo be a writer… you don’t have to be famous. People like J. K. Rowling or Stephan King are called ’famous writers’. In truth, anyone can be a writer, as long as they have a passion for writing and enjoy doing so. Now I’m not saying you have to enjoy writing everything you have to write, but that you like to, and do write in your spare time.
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zoe posted an update in the group
To be a Writer: 1 year, 3 months agoIt’s winter, mid January, though it’s some 60 odd degrees outside. Even though it’s 6 o’clock, the sun is out, slowly setting over the tree filled hills. Bringing daylight somewhere else. Locking the industrial doors behind me, leaving the cage I’ve known as work. I feel free, no longer a mold of myself. Striding off to my wrangler, inhaling the unusual warmth. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say it was the beginning of summer. Key in the ignition, takes a few choked tries until it finally turns over. Sublime blares from the speakers, I go nostalgic. Taking me back half a year to summer. It’s strange, how half a year can feel as though it was only yesterday. Lost in the memories; the music, the parties, the places, the people, and you. Instinctively I turn my head towards your house, a quick trip through my mind plays out all of the twists and turns, hills and fields that lead to it. So tempted to take that drive, though that was a different time. I drive home, and let the memories flood over me. The windows of the wrangler are open wide, hair blowing through my hair, caressing my face. I wonder about you. What you’re doing now, though I can predict the answer. Half a year ago, I’d be sitting in the passenger seat, and you’d be in control. Taking me places, taking me heights, I’ve never been before. The blaring of a horn behind me snaps me to attention. The light changed to green, it’s time to go. To move on. Home.
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Public Group active 1 month ago agoRequires inspiration at inopportune moments, many drafts, and good editing. Look for constructive criticism here, on fiction, non-fiction, or poetry.
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