Tag: writing
group name: lifeissue
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March 10, 2008 07:27 PM EDT --
I just got done reading "True Notebooks" by Mark Salzman. A published writer stuck on a juvenile delinquent character in a book he is writing approaches a friend that teaches writing . . .
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June 01, 2007 02:20 AM EDT --
Don't let the people fool you,
Don't let them make you think,
That they are better than you,
Or that they know the missing link.
Doesn't matter what you wear,
Or what fancy car you drive. . . .
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June 11, 2007 12:25 PM EDT --
I want to write. I want to write stories, books, poems. I keep telling myself I dont have the time. Truth is I'm sitting here on this computer for hours a day doing nothing. I have . . .
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May 29, 2007 11:32 PM EDT --
To dare to dream,
To want to seem,
To live to be,
To hear to see,
To love to feel
To be too real
To care to give
To dream to live.
(Critique welcome)
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October 12, 2007 10:08 AM EDT --
I got picked up yesterday morning along with a bunch of my peers and then dropped right back off at the grocery store. I was a little disappointed and I was looking spiffy and new and I just . . .
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August 31, 2007 10:09 AM EDT --
Clearing the Writing Palate
Last night my wife and I had a long walk on a secluded beach in Maine. It was about
6 PM, 75 degrees, clear, . . .
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May 11, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
I live in the tampa bay area of Florida. As you may have seen on the news my state is on fire in many places. This morning when I woke up I noticed a funny smell in the hallway. I looked . . .
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May 29, 2007 11:14 PM EDT --
I have only been a member of gather for a short period of time. I find that when I select the publish button that even if I have no idea what I am going to write once I see the blank space the words will . . .
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May 26, 2007 10:20 AM EDT --
The snowy page awaits
The first words unleash my thoughts,
A haiku is born
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December 12, 2007 03:44 AM EST --
People stop and leave wonderful comments about my work. I like to think that I am some how making a contribution that others find valuable. It certainly makes me feel like I have work I can do since there . . .
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March 16, 2008 10:57 PM EDT --
Stress has been high this year what with work going full tilt, needing to do Promo for myself and the new books (which is far far behind), scraping time to write, and dealing with getting all the stuff . . .
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May 10, 2007 10:44 PM EDT --
In conversation I heard this line..."my mother just doesn't understand." Later from the mother I heard this line..."my teenage daughter just doesn't understand." It struck . . .
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June 15, 2007 04:44 AM EDT --
When sleep eludes me
And I'm up late
I dream and write
On my electric slate.
My fingers slide
Over keys so fast
Writing thoughts
Of an endless task.
What will they read?
What should I say? . . .
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June 06, 2007 02:36 AM EDT --
If you could have one wish come true, what would it be? A new job, a new house, a new car, a healing, a million pesos? Tell me what you would want your wish to be...
I'll start:
My wish would . . .
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August 23, 2007 07:33 AM EDT --
Creativity is a weird animal. Not only is it a muscle that must be used in order to hone it and get it to give you more, but it can also be very capricious. It can drive you to distraction, prove stubborn, . . .
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June 10, 2007 07:22 PM EDT --
It's time for me to shout and celebrate...a little short story I wrote is to be published by ...A Long Story Short...in their July issue of their e-zine. I am so happy, never thought I would see the . . .
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May 23, 2007 11:43 AM EDT --
Once again, I have begun to live.
I don’t know, why?
I was lifeless but now,
I feel myself alive.
I don’t know, why?
My life was just like desolated flower garden . . .
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June 06, 2007 02:56 AM EDT --
Recently someone commented on one of my poems and said they wished they could write a poem like I did. This got me thinking and I decided to write an article about creativity.
First: Beauty is in . . .
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October 04, 2009 07:08 PM EDT --
Every November for the last eight years I've participated in NaNoWriMo . This November will be no different for me.
I had a great plot come to me while I was journaling a few weeks ago and I'm going . . .
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July 24, 2007 07:01 PM EDT --
Hi New Person,
Welcome to Gather! I haven't been here that long myself but it has been a great experience for me.
I have written poetry for many years and I get in to a several year lull here and . . .
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