Symbolism. An English teacher's favorite subject. We all remember when our teachers started talking about symbolism, describing colors in terms of moods, setting in terms of historical relevance, even names in terms of character traits. They assign meaning to everything that, in our world, is completely arbitrary. As students just trying to get a diploma …
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Second First Time
Hello, friends! Just a couple of weeks ago, I entered my second year of college. Once again, I packed my bags, patted my dog goodbye, and returned to St. Augustine to attend classes at Flagler. This year, things are different. I know where I am and who I'm with. I have an idea of how …
Dragons and Magic: Writing Update
Hello, friends! I thought I'd let you know how my personal writing progress has been going this summer. So far, I've had about two months off of school and have been using that time to the best of my abilities. So what have I gotten up to? For starters, during the month of May, I …
Let’s Face It…
This blog is not at all what I intended. Rather than being a source of tips and help, this has become an apology blog. Every time I post it's like a new depth of "oops" that I didn't even know was possible. And while I'm confronting my failures publicly, I'm not really being very productive. …
Yikes
This is awkward. Anybody else here feeling awkward? The last you heard from me, I was in the middle of a writing challenge in which I anticipated writing every day of the month of February. My last post was from day 5 and I did not continue on from there. To put it most simply, …
Writing Challenge Day 5: Wounded, A Good Day & An Old Photograph
A photo of two People, and a good day that Left a wounded smile. Hello, friends! Was this a lazy response? Maybe. But I love a good haiku. Today's prompts were: wounded, a good day, and an old photograph. I wanted to do something longer about the story of finding the photograph but then I thought …
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Writing Challenge Day 4: Dwell, What We Inherit, & Dear Diary
dear diary, today we went over my uncle's will. i don't think anyone was expecting to find what was inside. we assumed after so many years of isolation, he would've rejected us and left everything to his husband. but he didn't. uncle peter left half his fortune to jim. and the rest was split evenly among …
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Writing Challenge Day 3: Scripted, Be Still & Diatribe
"That's how it's scripted," he snapped. "Just try to follow direction." Rolling my eyes, I took my position standing across from him and we restarted the scene. The director and rest of the cast had long gone home, leaving only the pair of us on the stage to rehearse over and over. I stayed silent …
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Writing Challenge Day 2: Shadow Play & Who Are You?
"Who are you?" I ask, hands clenched in the folds of my dress, as if they can protect me from this mystery. Her image brightens a little, almost like a smile, except there is no mouth on her ashen face. "Easy. I'm your shadow." Her voice is high and lilting, dreamlike. I wonder if I …
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Writing Challenge Day 1: Crystallize
Water rippled. It shook, shimmered. Then began to change. As if beckoned, it began to curl up. Water climbed the air, twirled. Droplets hardened into fragments, crushed together. The liquid twisted as if drawn out of the water by a string, then tightened along the shape of that thread. Crystals crunched into the outline of …
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