Proceed with caution
Be aware
Blue eyes feel kind
Soft words fill empty spaces
Love lives here?
I should have recognized the storm clouds
Cumulonimbus
Thunderheads.
He honestly didn’t even try to hide them.
Building. Growing. Looming.
The darker the sky became,
The more I stared into his eyes.
A blue window to a soft soul.
A kind heart in a good man.
Who took and took and stole
EVERYTHING that wasn’t bolted down.
What could I possibly have to offer
The next set of sky blue lies?
Suddenly,
The late nights didn’t matter.
The laughter and joy and intimacy
We’re gone.
Not faded.
The fire burned it all away
Before she even knew it’d been lit.
All at once
She was cleaning up old photographs
And dusting off old memories.
It had become time to put those away.
She might be able to revisit them someday,
But for now it was best to quiet them
For a while.
Instantly,
He left.
She had no sooner taken a breath
Than watched him walk away.
Vanish, really.
The decision was made.
The years were worthless.
It was over now.
She could move on.
If I had a choice,
I would only remember you with me.
Chuckling when I smile
Because you can tell I’m fighting it.
I want to remember the tranquil safety
Before waking.
There was a silent comfort over the room,
Which was neither easy to accept, nor deny.
You waited.
You gave me time to want it too.
There was enough space between us
For me to explore first.
You were not the boy I had always imagined.
You are not the man of my dreams.
But for once,
Those dreams were quiet.
You took away my ache,
And it was lasting.
My work, my mother, my fears were silent,
Unless I simply grew deaf.
I prefer the memory of
Sweet cinnamon whisk
Stage 1
I'm anxious.
My hands are shaking, and my heart is beating too fast, and I'm thinking too much, and I can barely even breathe. I can't think straight; I can't think at all. I'm excited and I'm scared, and more thrilled than I could ever imagine. I can hardly wait.
Stage 2
I'm alive.
More alive than I've ever been. I can literally feel every inch of my body. Every bone, every pore, every single hair follicle is bursting. The world is moving too fast and too slow all at once and I don't think I could stop it if I tried.
Stage 3
I'm exhausted.
In the midst of recovery, I am finding everything I've lost. I found my breath behi
how to write like a writer by Amynnah49, literature
Literature
how to write like a writer
Sarah was a girl with too many dreams.
she liked to say that she kept her heart in a little box to keep it from breaking.
she liked to say that fragile things were never meant to be broken.
she liked to say that if you watch the stars long enough you can see the god's dancing.
Jason was a boy with only one dream.
he liked to wonder about the finer things life had to offer.
he liked to wonder how long he could run before he ran out of time.
he liked to wonder when his turn would come around.
and then he met Sarah.
Sarah made his days a tangled mess of amazing.
he tried to catch her wide and hopeful, golden eye.
he left "i lo
Sometimes I just get lost in a song.
I feel the music in my toes, and let it tingle up my legs. The lyrics climb up my spine and dance around my shoulders, and then they make their way all the way through my arms to my fingertips. The music drapes over me like a blanket and covers and fills all the holes and broken places I've come to know so well. And for three glorious minutes, my world is whole. And everything good and decent and wonderful is dropped in my lap. And my whole world is perfect.
Sometimes I just get lost in a sunset.
When the sky is gold and the clouds are pink, and my backyard looks like it could go on forever behind that
When I see her picture all I can think about is how unfair it is.
All I can see are my mistakes highlighted in her hazel eyes, my failures tangled in her curly blonde hair. All I can hear is you. Laughing and telling me how silly I'm being. That the idea that you were ever out to get me is insane and I must be off balance because all you ever did was love me, but only as a friend, a sister. You were careful to include that last part. That way you could do anything and everything else to confuse me, but keep your boundaries.
I told you once that I didn't understand. That you were all hot and cold and I wasn't ever sure where you were coming
Oh, the things you do that break my heart in the best way possible.
The way I smile when you tell me I'm not good enough because we both know deep down I'm better than "good enough."
The way I miss you so much when you aren't here.
The way I remember you with such great fondness, and I can't imagine ever holding ill feelings towards you.
The way your absence makes my heart hurt, and my anticipation of your return makes my soul ache, and somehow knowing you'll be in my arms soon makes that pain bearable.
The way a slow, sad song sends an average girl into a downward spiral, but it brings the best and biggest smile to my face.
The way you
Proceed with caution
Be aware
Blue eyes feel kind
Soft words fill empty spaces
Love lives here?
I should have recognized the storm clouds
Cumulonimbus
Thunderheads.
He honestly didn’t even try to hide them.
Building. Growing. Looming.
The darker the sky became,
The more I stared into his eyes.
A blue window to a soft soul.
A kind heart in a good man.
Who took and took and stole
EVERYTHING that wasn’t bolted down.
What could I possibly have to offer
The next set of sky blue lies?
Suddenly,
The late nights didn’t matter.
The laughter and joy and intimacy
We’re gone.
Not faded.
The fire burned it all away
Before she even knew it’d been lit.
All at once
She was cleaning up old photographs
And dusting off old memories.
It had become time to put those away.
She might be able to revisit them someday,
But for now it was best to quiet them
For a while.
Instantly,
He left.
She had no sooner taken a breath
Than watched him walk away.
Vanish, really.
The decision was made.
The years were worthless.
It was over now.
She could move on.
If I had a choice,
I would only remember you with me.
Chuckling when I smile
Because you can tell I’m fighting it.
I want to remember the tranquil safety
Before waking.
There was a silent comfort over the room,
Which was neither easy to accept, nor deny.
You waited.
You gave me time to want it too.
There was enough space between us
For me to explore first.
You were not the boy I had always imagined.
You are not the man of my dreams.
But for once,
Those dreams were quiet.
You took away my ache,
And it was lasting.
My work, my mother, my fears were silent,
Unless I simply grew deaf.
I prefer the memory of
Sweet cinnamon whisk
Stage 1
I'm anxious.
My hands are shaking, and my heart is beating too fast, and I'm thinking too much, and I can barely even breathe. I can't think straight; I can't think at all. I'm excited and I'm scared, and more thrilled than I could ever imagine. I can hardly wait.
Stage 2
I'm alive.
More alive than I've ever been. I can literally feel every inch of my body. Every bone, every pore, every single hair follicle is bursting. The world is moving too fast and too slow all at once and I don't think I could stop it if I tried.
Stage 3
I'm exhausted.
In the midst of recovery, I am finding everything I've lost. I found my breath behi
how to write like a writer by Amynnah49, literature
Literature
how to write like a writer
Sarah was a girl with too many dreams.
she liked to say that she kept her heart in a little box to keep it from breaking.
she liked to say that fragile things were never meant to be broken.
she liked to say that if you watch the stars long enough you can see the god's dancing.
Jason was a boy with only one dream.
he liked to wonder about the finer things life had to offer.
he liked to wonder how long he could run before he ran out of time.
he liked to wonder when his turn would come around.
and then he met Sarah.
Sarah made his days a tangled mess of amazing.
he tried to catch her wide and hopeful, golden eye.
he left "i lo
Sometimes I just get lost in a song.
I feel the music in my toes, and let it tingle up my legs. The lyrics climb up my spine and dance around my shoulders, and then they make their way all the way through my arms to my fingertips. The music drapes over me like a blanket and covers and fills all the holes and broken places I've come to know so well. And for three glorious minutes, my world is whole. And everything good and decent and wonderful is dropped in my lap. And my whole world is perfect.
Sometimes I just get lost in a sunset.
When the sky is gold and the clouds are pink, and my backyard looks like it could go on forever behind that
When I see her picture all I can think about is how unfair it is.
All I can see are my mistakes highlighted in her hazel eyes, my failures tangled in her curly blonde hair. All I can hear is you. Laughing and telling me how silly I'm being. That the idea that you were ever out to get me is insane and I must be off balance because all you ever did was love me, but only as a friend, a sister. You were careful to include that last part. That way you could do anything and everything else to confuse me, but keep your boundaries.
I told you once that I didn't understand. That you were all hot and cold and I wasn't ever sure where you were coming
Oh, the things you do that break my heart in the best way possible.
The way I smile when you tell me I'm not good enough because we both know deep down I'm better than "good enough."
The way I miss you so much when you aren't here.
The way I remember you with such great fondness, and I can't imagine ever holding ill feelings towards you.
The way your absence makes my heart hurt, and my anticipation of your return makes my soul ache, and somehow knowing you'll be in my arms soon makes that pain bearable.
The way a slow, sad song sends an average girl into a downward spiral, but it brings the best and biggest smile to my face.
The way you
Proceed with caution
Be aware
Blue eyes feel kind
Soft words fill empty spaces
Love lives here?
I should have recognized the storm clouds
Cumulonimbus
Thunderheads.
He honestly didn’t even try to hide them.
Building. Growing. Looming.
The darker the sky became,
The more I stared into his eyes.
A blue window to a soft soul.
A kind heart in a good man.
Who took and took and stole
EVERYTHING that wasn’t bolted down.
What could I possibly have to offer
The next set of sky blue lies?
I feel confident and assured.
I am attractive and invincible.
The ground shakes when I speak,
the tectonic plates shuddering
with intimidation,
shying under an ocean’s weight.
Mountains form stairs,
rough-hewn hurriedly
into their chests,
and the clouds part to form light beams,
heavenly,
down upon my shoulders,
bright and wide,
a shelf of worldly strength
which Atlas himself would admire,
sweat tracing the furrows
of his ancient brow.
And yet, you forget me.
an exercise in giving up by paperheartsyndrome, literature
Literature
an exercise in giving up
I don’t know what I’m doing in this place.
My bones ache to take me away – to take me anywhere but here. But my heart remembers this place and its beat is racing, pumping blood into the far corners of my body, making my limbs too heavy to move. But I want to leave so badly, with every part of my being, but the one. My heart still belongs here…even after all these years.
I don’t remember the last time I saw your face.
But I can tell you that I still hear your voice in my dreams. In the deepest of sleeps, you’re still alive inside of me, deep within the folds of my heart, the dark spaces of my imagination
Creating Plot Outlines by BritishMan00, literature
Literature
Creating Plot Outlines
The Plot Outline
Ok! So you just had a super intense brainwave and believe it would make a great story. You have the inspiration, the energy and the excitement and cant wait to go ahead and write it! Great!
Now STOP and back off from the pen paper or keyboard. Diving into your writing headfirst works for the very very few, what you need is a plot outline. Without a plot outline, writing a story is like building a house with no blueprints to follow. A plot outline is your blueprint, the skeleton to provide the basic support for everything going on in your novel.
Now making a plot outline is very easy, you just need to put the t
Writing a novel is different for everyone. However, here are some things to think about during the journey of writing your novel.
STEP ONE - Prewriting
What message do you want to send the world?
It may sound like an obvious question, but the message of any literature can be very abstract or become lost in the literature. Keep the "message" or theme specific. Every event that occurs, every character added to the story, ask yourself whether or not it helps delivering the message you want to your readers.
Characters
Characters are vital to the book. You cannot have too many, nor too few. Choose characters that people can easily relate to.
maybe you never belonged to me by paperheartsyndrome, literature
Literature
maybe you never belonged to me
I can still feel the weight of your lips on the curve of my collarbone. Sometimes, it feels paralyzing, crushing, absolute. Sometimes, it feels like home. Like everything.
I once heard that when you can't fall asleep it means you're awake in someone else's dream. I wonder which one of us was dreaming that night, because everything was too quiet, too easy, too perfect. You used to fall asleep next to me, your body curled against mine. It's a warmth that's not easy to forget. A hidden smile tucked into pillows and sheets. It's easy to think these things will last forever when you're tangled up together. For me, the strings of my life will alwa
That's so incredibly sweet. Got a full time job and I'm going to school and my life is a giant ball of hectic nonsense. But your support means the world to me. I'm working on something, I'll try to post it soon. <3