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Alis Volat Propriis: I’d like to start at the beginning, but who can say where it really...
I’d like to start at the beginning, but who can say where it really began? Between one breath and another, I fell in love. It would be to cliché to say it was love at first sight; it would be too cheesy to say we were kismet from the moment we met. But most importantly it would be wrong. For…
This is a beautiful response to today’s Daily Theme! (“I’d like to start at the beginning, but who can say where it really began? Between one breath and another, I fell in love.”)
Reblogged from frommytokyoheart
Your Daily Theme: Opening Line
“Life isn’t kind,” my mother would always say, “so why should you be?”
Use this line as inspiration for a short story or poem.
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The stuff I was writing at 11 and 12 years old is remarkable not only for its awfulness — it ranges in subject matter from Agent Prudence Shen joining forces with Mulder and Scully to Solve Crime! to thinly veiled versions of me and my then-crush falling in love…and then joining forces with Mulder and Scully to Solve Crime! — but that I remember adoring it.
When I think back to being this age and writing dumb stories with crumbling narrative structures and zero ability to edit, all I remember is being ravishingly in love with the writing itself. I loved everything about it, tumbling head over feet like a new parent with an ugly, verbose baby. I loved being able to commit this late-night fantasy to paper and reread it the next day. It felt more real, substantive. I loved the way my handwriting filled up a line. I loved having an idea and watching it bleed out across a page in ink. I didn’t think about how my characters didn’t make sense or how — fifteen years later — my No. 1 turnoff would be the same giant chunks of expository dialog I was writing.
Read more: Prudence Shen, author of “Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong,” on why being a bad writer is good (for a while)
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Time is running out to get a handwritten letter from your favorite poet
From the Academy of American Poets.
Your Daily Theme: Smiling
People smile during every type of emotion. It is a cover, or a front, or an instinctual/sarcastic response. Write a scene in which a character smiles, but he or she is not happy. Think about how someone smiles when they are angry, or sad, or frightened, or nervous. Pick one of these emotions to portray with a smile.
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Celebrate National Poetry Month by getting a letter from a Chancellor of the American Academy of Poets.
Your Daily Theme: Opening Line
“She had cold hands, but warm feet. He looked young, but felt old.”
Use this line as inspiration for a short story or poem.
What is it like working behind the scenes writing for a sitcom, like MODERN FAMILY? Read: (via What Does A TV Sitcom Writer Do? | The Daily Fig)
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Your Daily Theme: Opening Line
“His breath was coming in short bursts. If he had known that society was going to collapse violently, he definitely would have done more cardio.”
Use this line as inspiration for a poem, scene, or short-story.
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Your Daily Theme: Photo Prompt
Write a poem, scene, or story inspired by this picture.
Photograph source: public domain image by HUMANWINE
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