I want to show you everything.
Desperately, I want to give you anything.
Whether you believe it or not, you need to know I did everything for love.
Outside of the lines
Every once and a while I get the urge to write or share something outside of literature, it spices things up.
Point of View
Even on the brink of death an angle can show the opportunity for resilience.
Taking a week off
Hi Everyone-
I won’t be posting much this week. I have the final project for my Masters in Creative Writing due on Sunday and it’s going to take up a lot of time.
Than you for the continued support.
Alysia
Icicles of a Lion
March comes in like a lion, and goes out like a lamb.
(Proverb)
Creativity Pep Talk
When you stand of the precipice of really going for something it is amazing how many doubts and fears pop up. I am in the final stages of editing and I have someone working on a cover so that I can self publish my first novel. My excitement most days is tempered by this absurd fear of failure. I haven’t even tried and I am worried that it will be mocked, ridiculed and any other negative thought you might be capable of imagining. Yet that isn’t what keeps me up at night. Late at night when my creative muse prefers to do her little dance I have to reconcile myself to the idea that even if it is terrible I won’t stop. I can’t stop writing, I find myself doing it all the time I can’t imagine a day without it.
I have found solace in that I am not alone- writers while it’s a solitary activity are never alone.
Below is a great TED talk from Elizabeth Gilbert that I encourage all writers or people with a creative instinct watch.
As To Be
Six word stories with this photograph in Denver as the setting:
Wall discourse sets us all free.
I was not once seen plainly.
To be everything is a trap.
His proposal under the bridge failed.
Only the shadows warm my heart.
Happiness given by uniquely blue letters.
In the window my reflection soared.
Against the wall she loved him.
The sun dried tears of bliss.
Unseen she was still his world.
On The Other Side
of the mountain.
The storm approaches.
Sunday Morning
At times the weather,
Mother Nature,
understands you better than you know yourself.
Take solace in that.
A
Stumbling Into A Passion
This post might seem silly or even tedious. This blog is after all dedicated for the most part to my writing. However, I now think that I may have been wrong in my labeling it as my passion.
True my goal is to be a published author.
It’s also true that I have a deep love for writing and it gives me immense pleasure to write.
Yet neither of those things could honestly be labeled as what I am most passionate about.
Perhaps it is counter intuitive but those two things I have found are actually the result of one true passion.
There was a moment, an epiphany, when I found that my greatest desire is to tell stories.
There is nothing more that I want than to tell stories. There might not even be anything I wouldn’t risk for it.
How does this change everything?
Does it change anything?
I don’t have the answer to that just yet but I look forward to finding one.
For an unknown reason I feel like that answer if I find it might just be profound.
Thanks For The Follow
Hi everyone I just wanted to say thank you and celebrate my blog hitting 3,000 followers today. There has been a lot of growth and change over the last couple of years and your support is greatly appreciated. There are exciting things to come in 2015.
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