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I am a daughter, a sister, a teacher, a reader, a writer, and above all, a dreamer. I started this blog as a requirement for a creative writing class, and we'll see whether I keep it going at the end of the year.

Thursday 27 October 2011

Other Blog Stuff

I just wanted to make a post about other blogs you might like to look at. I also have two tumblr blogs their urls are:
I use this first one to post and reblog images of bookspaces and book/reading related things:
http://wallsandwallsofbooks.tumblr.com
and I use this next one to post and reblog images and quotations that I find amusing, inspiring, adorable, etc. it is sort of my catch all blog.
http://smallunderthesky.tumblr.com
Check them out!

Also, I recently discovered this other tumblr blog, which I absolutely love, I don't know this girl, but she takes great pictures and posts interesting rants and such. So, check her out too, I am adding her to my blogroll.
http://mariakonstantinov.tumblr.com/page/3

See you all tomorrow!

Tuesday 25 October 2011

[No Body] Knows the Trouble I've Seen...

It's Sunday afternoon and I am trying desperately to come up with some inspiration for assignment four. It's not as if I haven't been thinking about it for two weeks. I have been. It's killing me that I am so devoid of brilliancy. What do we do with our bodies? We eat, we talk, sing, run, move, make acts of athleticism in general, we have sex and make babies. We kill other people's bodies. We write five page short stories. We create things, destroy things, we see, we hear, we speak, we feel, taste. What would it be like to do these things without a body? Or how would we be content to live without these things if we had no body. What if no body noticed you and you all of a sudden became invisible? Oh wait, that's Buffy. Nevermind. Why is it that when we dream it's as if days or months can pass inside of those brief hours? Have you ever woken up before your alarm, found you still had twenty minutes to sleep and then had an entire universe unfold in your mind during those twenty minutes? I could totally write about this. In fact, I did. In assignment one. So, rather than hand in the same story twice, I find that I need to become RE-inspired.
I'm trying the good old fail-safe of listening to my entire iPod library. So far, no dice. It really is inconvenient to be stuck like this, as I work all day tomorrow, from 7:30 am -10:30 pm with no chance to write a damn thing in between those hours.
I glanced at my blog title just now and thought, well, maybe I could write about that? A character who witnesses/experiences something horrific and retreats inside himself to heal psychologically? Does the audience need to know what it was? Perhaps not explicitly... Oh my god, I could write this story I've suddenly found in my head.... But it might eat me up before I can get it out.
I can't post this until I've sent away my story and I am still editing and it's Tuesday morning. Cutting it close again. I really don't want to be the last workshopped again, but it looks like I've written, or unwritten myself into that corner again.
I finally finished. This story took a lot out of me, and not just because I have the flu. Sada really got under my skin. Now I will post this post and people can enjoy my online presence once again.