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Dark Mother

Bleed your colors to the ground, let them swirl in the vortex of your breath. The gathering chill escaped from your lungs whispers the green earth into death. Dark Mother, keep the spirits you hold within your hands. Souls eternally bidden, soaked and seeped into the land. Dark Mother, keep your fury quivering deep within the ground. Harm us not, but let us hear the power of that sound. The wheel is turning, always turning as the sun falls from the sky. Mother can you tell me, oh can't you tell me why? Dark Mother, stir your cauldron deep living waters of rebirth. Wash clean this wretched wreckage we have wreaked upon the earth.

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Dark Mother by LadyofGaerdon, literature

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Dark Mother

Writer's Tip: Mary Sue's by DarlingMionette, literature

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Writer's Tip: Mary Sue's

Mary Sue. It’s the phrase that makes nearly every writer cringe. To have a character labeled a Mary Sue is probably one of the worst feelings in the world, but why is that? What exactly is a Mary Sue? The term Mary Sue originated as, yah you guessed it, a character named Mary Sue in the 1973 Paula Smith story entitled “A Trekkie’s Tale”. The story was a parody fan fiction centered around a 15 year old girl who epitomized the Mary Sue term we know and dread today. She was the youngest, smartest, prettiest, most well-trained teen ever to grace the Star Trek universe. Not surprisingly, the character was so ridiculously o

Writer's Tip: Show, don't tell. by DarlingMionette, literature

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Writer's Tip: Show, don't tell.

Show, don’t tell (SDT). It’s one of the few consistent pieces of advice that all writers have heard at one time or another. Even the most amateur of writers parrot it back, but knowing the phrase doesn’t necessarily mean that we understand it, or how to implement it. So what does “Show, don’t tell.” really mean? SDT is the idea that instead of telling your readers what’s happening in a story, you show them. This seems like an abstract concept to most of us, but what it boils down to is this: using words to give your readers an idea without having to directly state it. There are many ways good writers

Writer's Tip: Writing Effective Sentences by DarlingMionette, literature

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Writer's Tip: Writing Effective Sentences

Sentences—if the plot is the backbone of a story, then sentences are the muscles and tendons keeping it glued together. Unfortunately, writing solid sentences isn’t easy for everyone. As Human beings, we don’t speak the same way we write. Unless you do a lot of writing, you may have trouble putting together even the simplest of sentences. The last time you took a good look at a sentence and broke it down into its individual parts was probably around 3rd grade. Don’t worry—I’m here to help. There’s More Than One Type of Sentence There are (roughly) four different types of sentences, and we’re g

How To Write - And Love It by DarlingMionette, literature

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How To Write - And Love It

Darling Mionette's How to Begin To Write Welcome to my tutorial on how to start writing. This tutorial isn't going to teach you the rules of grammar, or punctuation. Let's face it – there is a plethora of such tutorials already out there. Instead, this tutorial is going to teach you the tools you can use to get a head start on writing. You Are a Writer First things first: acknowledge that you are already a writer. What? You're not? You could have fooled me. Let's face it; from the moment we're born, we're unwittingly taught to become writers. Language is one of the first tools we learn, and along with that, story telling. You may ha

Words To Avoid by DarlingMionette, literature

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Words To Avoid

"Words To Avoid In Creative Writing" We've all heard there are some no-no words in creative writing - these are words that you want to avoid "at all costs" some people say, but do you know which they are, and why you should avoid them? Well, I didn't the first time I saw a list of "words to avoid", and not surprisingly, a lot of people who write these lists don't know why either. (I know, SHOCK! GASP! just because someone wrote a guide doesn't mean they know what they're talking about.) So, this morning I went on a word-finding spree to find these "word lists" and find out WHY I was supposed to avoid these words - and more import

A Writer's Guide: Believable Characters by DarlingMionette, literature

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A Writer's Guide: Believable Characters

I know a lot of you out there are aspiring-writers (I’m one myself!) and sometimes we get so caught up in this “must publish!” attitude that we get lost in our stories along the way. Sometimes there comes a point when we stare at our half-finished novel and say “I’m stuck. “ Usually these moments happen when we don’t know where we’re going next with our story, and usually that’s because somewhere along the line we’ve strayed off the path and we aren’t quite sure how to get back. One of the things that you may find helpful if you’ve never done it before is to take a reall

The Six Questions for Rewriting by Droemar, journal

The Six Questions for Rewriting

Jul 20, 2014

I have a book on writing! http://www.amazon.com/The-Sarcastic-Guide-To-Writing-ebook/dp/B005TOCC1C/ref=pd_sim_kstore_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0EBPNWS0SC846Z737DYE Go buy it. I’ve been doing rewrites a lot lately, and for each chapter I do, I sit down and write these seven questions on the back of the last chapter page. Every. Chapter. (And I just did all 52 some-odd chapters of Mark of the Conifer last night.) If you can answer these questions with one sentence or so, you are in good shape to do a good rewrite. If you are rambling, writing paragraphs, you are losing focus and probably have too much going on in the chapter. You probably ne

Story Writing for BEGINNERS by OokamiKasumi, literature

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Story Writing for BEGINNERS

-----Original Message----- I want to write a story. I have a couple of ideas, but no idea what to do with them, or even how to begin! Help?! -- Newbie Writer So when you wanna write a story, where do you begin? With your PASSION! Write what you KNOW & LOVE What do you KNOW, really? What do you love to Do, to Study, to Think About, to Talk About...? Whether it's cave-diving, model trains, skate-boarding, sewing, horses, mythology, ghost legends, or particle physics your passion is where you will find your most unique and powerful work. Make a list of all the things you know well and all the things you've done -- seriously! Mythology

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