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Saturday, September 21, 2013

Discover

You, my darling, are so very important.  Make your mark.  Put your phone away for a day, discover you, discover the world, feel your place and change your view on something.  Watch the universe churn around you, feel your place, so small but oh, so very big.  Never doubt something that makes you happy and make it happen.

Live your life - it's yours.  Now go!

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

A new direction

I have decided to take my adventures in blogging to a new direction.  I recently signed up for a writing class at my local community college and I attended the first class on Monday.  I am truly inspired, but as I'm a little (more like monumentally) timid, a little (again, severe understatement) afraid to truly publish the fact that I seriously want to pursue writing, I'm not going to actively tell my friends/family of this fact.  I'll just write about it.  Here.  In secret (and yes, I absolutely see the contradiction in that statement, I'm just going to ignore it).

There is - as I'm sure you can deduce - going to be a change in the concept of my blog.  This will be a place for me to experiment.  A place for me to really try to grow as a writer.  I may post some of my silly 60 second writing exercises, or I may post a story in its final draft, but I will post SOMETHING.  What will that be?  We shall see. 

In the meantime, I'll leave you with this silly little exercise from http://www.oneword.com/(go try it)!

The word: TIMID.  The time limit: 1 minute.  The rules: don't think, just write.  My result:

She began her life rather in awe of all around her. The blooms on the trees in spring allured her so deeply that she never came out of her mind, she stayed there, captured by the beauty of the earth. Until. She was shocked so completely by the inhumanity of mankind, that she left her timid nature behind and spoke out. She saw the things she loved so completely destroyed by man, the tress she loved, the flowers blooms that captured her soul so strongly as a young girl no longer bloomed in spring, no longer did she hear the buzzing of bees. Now, the earth was being destroyed by those that were supposed to keep her safe.

Until next time...