Facing The Monsters

“Out of doubt, out of dark to the day’s rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope’s end I rode and to heart’s breaking:” Tolkien Fear is a powerful thing.  It can make you move mountains, or allow you to hide beneath them, or bury you.  I miss the ignorance of youth.  I miss when everything was

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It Should Have Rained Carnations

The sterile fresh scent of carnations permeated the air.  Reds, yellows, white, and red striped flowers danced starkly against the grayscale backdrop of my world. Feeling like I was in an old slow B-movie, I looked down at the lifeless body of my mother.  I wanted to scream this can’t be real.   She wouldn’t leave me.   I might have

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Battling Writer’s Block And Dancing In The Rain

It’s funny everything you read and learn about writers block tells you to let go, give yourself permission to write bad, make mistakes to set yourself free.  They say do something else, and then go back.   I tried that, but always wondered why doesn’t it work for me?   Why do I find  myself mourning my writing, because I

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  Changed added words   Changed-Crop original   General: Creative Common License Photos Used Are Public Domain Creative Commons Acquired from such sites as: Pixaby.com and morguefile.com and Stocksnap.lo BigStock.com and Photopin.com & some personal.   Other Photo Credit: I love these ravens.  This artist did a wonderful job.  Check him out. Photo Credit: Raven Wearing Glasses: Die Mykologen – Glückspilze –

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Links! Tools, Gadgets & Software for Writers

Links I used and recommend. Many are free or very reasonably priced, a lot are shareware, check the link to be sure. WRITING COURSES:  HOLLY LISLE WRITING COURSES highly recommended & used by ME  Holly Lisle is the only link that I am an affiliate (see disclosures top menu) Udemy Courses How To Plan & Outline Your Novel Using Scrivener

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THE FALL

Photo purchased from Big Stock Photo—An attractive young teen mid-air, falling (or flying) with hands and head first. On a white background. by McIninch c By Juneta Written 021094 I slipped, I stumbled, I fell. I learned my lesson very well. I reach, I jump, I leap. I’m not going to land in the same ole heap. I skip, I hop, I

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ELAN VITAL

*Photo purchase from Big Stock Photo—butterfly sitting on grass with dew drops close up on the background spider web by volrab vaclav c By Juneta January 25th, 2002 Whirling, Black cancerous void, Ravenous, Gnawing hunger, Greedy soulless cur, Falling, Falling, Falling, Sinking depths, Lost, Empty hollow pain, Resonates, Involuntary screams, Returned echoes of silence, Mortar wounds of absence, Cavities of isolation,

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