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We All Start Somewhere
I look back on the first piece I ever wrote and I cringe. I force myself to read it, however. I force myself to read it not because I enjoy self-induced pain—I've had enough of pain to last a lifetime, thank you very much—but because I think it's essential, as a writer, to look back on just how far you've come. I think it's essential for all aspiring artists to hold up, every once in a while, a brutally honest mirror and be our own self-appraisers, whether or not you like what you see within.
By Alvin Ang2 years ago in Writers
Love stories.
1. Eternal Embrace In the realm where time is but a fleeting breeze, Exists a force that brings humanity to its knees.
By Glitch2 years ago in Writers
Reflection on 4K Reads, AKA "How Writing is a Bit Like Sex". Top Story - September 2023.
I recently wrote about hitting 3000 reads. It felt like kind of a big deal. And then, in one month, I got another 1000!
By L.C. Schäfer2 years ago in Writers
Lesson in the Sky
🔴✈️ An AIRBUS A380 commercial airliner flies over the Atlantic, heading towards its destination. It was a very calm and stable flight flying at 900 km/h and 30,000 feet in altitude. It is then that he is interrupted by the sudden appearance of an F-18 fighter plane at nearly 2,500 km/hour.
By Ali Bah2 years ago in Writers
So It Sucks, Now What?
I had never intended to revisit my first real attempt at writing a book, and now I have done it twice in as many weeks. Thanks, Vocal, for prompting me to reflect on that disaster.
By R.S. Sillanpaa2 years ago in Writers
One day a man killed a big ox and roasted it.
One day a man killed a big ox and roasted it. Then he said to his daughter: “Go out and invite our friends and neighbors to come and eat beef with us.”
By Ali Bah2 years ago in Writers
Someone owes me €50,000 but refuses to pay me.
Me: Lawyer, someone owes me €50,000 but refuses to pay me. Lawyer: Do you have proof to this effect (money loan)? Me: No, we didn’t sign any documents!
By Ali Bah2 years ago in Writers
Validation in school
When I was 17, I wrote a story without much thought or meaning to it. Not that I didn't try; I tried very hard. But now that I'm older, I realise that my story had one missing component. One consequential piece of the puzzle that without it, is it even really a story?
By Dana Hambleton2 years ago in Writers
Neon Unicorns
I was young. Grade school young. I knew writing was fun. My father and I did my language arts homework every night, and my favorite assignments always included writing our own stories. I come from a long line of storytellers. People with imagination and creativity woven into their bones. My grandad could easily weave a tale so fascinating, I never minded when he repeated one twice (or three or four times).
By Abigail Adams -The Mad Cow Mob Boss2 years ago in Writers
The Goddess Who Turned into a Cow
Picture it: seventh grade hallways smelling of a mixture of old book pages, coffee lingering on sleepy adults' breath, and the mix of Victoria Secret body mist and Axe body spray. The walls lined with blue lockers, a young girl, feeling frumpy in her Aéropostale jeans and sweater, clutching a stack of books against her chest. She avoids her locker due to the unseemly crush she has on the boy who lives on the other side of the tracks.
By Myrna Collins2 years ago in Writers
On Holiness
In 2010, I wrote a poem and called it Holy. I wrote it for my English class and was astonished to learn it won a school-wide prize. There was some furor: I was a lowly Fourth Former, and prizes were typically handed to departing Sixth Formers. The William Otis Smith Prize for English Verse was my first major award, an achievement I remain achingly proud of years after the fact.
By Suze Kay2 years ago in Writers
Valuable Lessons
The first story I had ever written was while I was in Jr. High. I had a great idea to write a story about a young woman who went to another world when she dreamed, and the working title was 'Harganoph and the Tree of Life.' In the story, a teenager named Marie would project into another reality in her dreams. This other world was a place with magic and adventure called 'Harganoph.' One night, she finds that she doesn't wake up from her dream. In fact, she's stuck in Harganoph. She's informed by a scientist that her living body must have slipped into a coma and she needed to get back to that body before she dies. Marie and a group of her friends start their journey to the Tree of Life, which is supposed to have the magic needed to bring her back to her real world, but as she finds the fantasy more appealing than reality, she starts to doubt if she even wanted to be saved at all.
By Jean Bruce2 years ago in Writers