It was on 3:00 pm, a gorgeous Wednesday afternoon, when the world came to its end. The first thought I remember having when it happened was, why 3:00? The bloody middle of the day? Why a Wednesday, the oddest day of the week? And why for the love of Heaven did I have to be in the shower?
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I was so bored :D I create terrible prompts :D
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Harry Potter © J.K.R and WB.
Art and Manips © Dhesia
2 Draco Malfoy - Manips
1 Dramione: Draco and Hermione - Manips.
1 Draco - Watercolour.
1 Hermione - Watercolour.
7 Draco Malfoy - Digital art. 2 Dramione: Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger - Digital art.
1 Draco Malfoy and Bellatrix Lestrange - Digital art.
2 Drarry: Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter - Digital art.
4 HP Group: Draco, Ron, Hermione and Harry,Severus, Albus, Lucius, Draco and Voldemort - Digital art. 1 Harry and Ginny - Digital art.
1 Harry Potter vs Voldemort - Digital art.
1 Hermione Granger - Digital art. 1 HP next generation: Albus, Rose and Scorpius - Digital art.
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I've gotten some nice review's on this piece but I think it needs an error check! It seems like no matter how many times I re read my works theres always little mistakes here and there that I don't seem to catch. I'm thinking about submitting this so it needs to be at its absolute best. -Let me know what you think! (It's fairly short) -And for all you grammar junkies out there, fix away :) | |
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Does anyone have any advice on how to write a compelling query letter?
I know chances are so slim of an agent actually responding to me, since I am so young and have nothing published. But it can't hurt to ask advice!
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With everything else that's been happening lately, I completely forgot to post this: pictures of the two pictures I have up in the campus art gallery. One of the professors here, Jeff Dalton, was putting together a pinhole camera show: taking paint cans with film in them, you point your can at your subject, brace it, lift a strip of electrical tape for 10-20 seconds depending on the light, then quickly seal it again. I volunteered, took my shot--a family graveyard next to an old farmhouse across the street from campus--and then volunteered for a second after some of the cameras didn't coming back. The second shot was of the remains of a chimney deep in the forest behind our house, which I've posted pictures of here before. My pictures of the two shots aren't very good--though honestly, the originals aren't exactly digital quality! But I still had a lot of fun doing it, and the second picture included a 45-minute hike around Ferrum Mountain, so it was even better. The showing included the photographs on top and the original negatives on the bottom.
The graveyard.
(I don't know what caused the swirling effect,
but I like it.)
The chimney.
(Which you really can't see here,
but it's in the dead center of the shot.)
A sampling of our cameras
(with instructions still pasted to the cans).
If we do this again, the woods that contain the cemetery also contain another cemetery, complete with iron fence, that I discovered last year. I may make that my next subject. | |
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PROGRESS REPORT FOR 11/23/09
New Words: 1300 on chapter 3 ("The Hardscrabblers, 1929") of The Great Valley.
Total Words: 118450.
Reason For Stopping: Late start, getting a bit sleepy, and ended the scene.
Book Year: 1930.
Mammalian Assistance: None.
Exercise: Walked with Laurie and the dogs around campus.
Stimulants: None.
Today's Opening Passage: “The secret to not getting caught,” Boone Gillespie told his 10-year-old son Bobby, “is to not look like you’re doing something that needs catching.”
Darling Du Jour: As long as the moonshine flowed, the Gillespies could keep their heads above water, and their chins up while they were at it.
Non-Research / Review Books In Progress: Creation by Gore Vidal. | |
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It was late in the afternoon, at that moment of day when shadows of everything are at their longest. Those shadows, together with the darkness that was slowly but surely extinguishing the waning glow of the ether, crept unobstructed into my room through the open window. I was sitting on the soft, ever welcoming mattress of my bed; the bedclothes already neatly arranged in place from when I awoke in the morning, erasing all sign of my ever having slept in it last night. My figure was reduced to a mere silhouette in what little light remained to illuminate the room, fighting a futile battle against the overwhelming darkness. Somewhere inside of me a part of me started urging myself to leave my comfortable spot on my bed and turn on the switch for the electric light, but my legs remained dangling downwards, stationary, as if they were lead. The rest of me were completely content to just continue sitting quietly at the foot of my bed in the surrounding darkness. My hands were folded neatly, one atop the other, just above my knees. Just across from me, a mere few metres away, a wall stared back at me. On its spacious surface resided tens and tens of photographs, all arranged in neat rows. Every one of them taken by myself, every one of them personally plastered onto the wall by myself. Every one of them portraying one same single subject. One hand broke its position and rose towards the wall, resting just below a boy's face. I didn't know what I was searching for, after the infinite number of times I've stared at your face like this, one would think I'd have found what I was searching for by now. But there I was, silently studying your face yet again on another darkening afternoon. I let my fingertips linger against the glossy surface of the photograph for a few more moments, feeling the weight of my fingertips upon your two-dimensional face. Then I slowly pulled my hand back to me, returning it to its original position. Just as I had done exactly so on every previous darkening afternoon. Everything came to be the first time I saw you. ( click for the rest. )--- visit intangiblewords for personal comments and more previous works. and if anybody would bother to, i would also greatly appreciate somebody evaluating my works throughout this year and how my writing style has evolved, or whether it has improved. | |
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Up until Saturday I was occasionally getting slapped with the doleful thought, I'm almost 40.
Then Saturday, on the hike, the same thought suddenly altered slightly and brightened considerably: I'm almost 40 and I can still hike up to McAfee's Knob and back!
My 20-year-old Self would snerk at me for having a belly...but be secretly proud that 40-year-old Self could still make a 7-mile Appalachian Trail hike.
Now if I can just keep it up for another 30 or 40 years... | |
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I've been discussing antagonists and plot with one of my writer-friends, which has blossomed into ideas for this post. So here are my thoughts on antagonists... ( There goes a black hat now! Get it!! ) | |
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To Writers and Artists, We are accepting works (poetry, short stories, and artwork, including photography) to launch our inaugural issue of our magazine, The Fine Line. The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2010. For guidelines on how to submit please visit our website: http://thefineline00.wordpress.com/ Looking forward to reading your work, Co-Editors of The Fine Line - Mood:ecstatic
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Looking southwest from the Knob.
( +11 )- Mood:mellow
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Adventure is worthwhile.
--Amelia Earhart
The day after Jess' death there was talk of doing a hike in her memory on Saturday--she was zealous about hiking (even more than me in younger years), and it seemed like a great way to honor her. One of the Outdoor Rec students messaged me on FB to talk about some tentative hiking plans; he and I both thought of McAfee's Knob, a gorgeous hike and summit on the Appalachian Trail that she had done before. The next day it came out that her memorial service at home (Winchester, VA) would be Saturday so there was no more talk (yet) about a hike--but I couldn't get to Winchester, so I just decided to do the hike myself.
Laurie and I found a gorgeous day on the mountain: sunny, not too breezy, and highs in the upper 50s. As close to perfect as you can expect in the Virginia Blue Ridge in late November. A wonderful day, a wonderful hike, and the farther we trekked the more I remembered about Jess, including from our first conversation--when we talked mostly, appropriately enough, about hiking.
This was also the first McAfee's hike I'd done in the wintertime since 1995, and I forgot how beautiful the light was, and how much more water runs down the mountainside when it's not so hot and dry out. The whole day was the definition of bittersweet.
My first glimpse of the great sunlight.
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A sudden memory stopped me in my tracks this morning and sent a chill up my spine.
On October 20th I wrote the following excerpt in my daily (handwritten) journal: I got to the (fitness center), spent 20 mins. on the elliptical chatting w/ Jess Goode, then 3 resistance machines, inc. 90 ab crunches.
This was the only time I ever mentioned her in my journal--and I wrote about her in passing, not realizing I'd done it till it was done. At the time I didn't know why I felt compelled to add a note about chatting with her that one time. But the reason it sent a chill up my spine was because I suddenly realized that this session on the elliptical machines with her was the last time I ever talked to her in person.
We swapped some e-mails after that. I saw her at the library a few times, smiling and nodding (or waving) as we passed each other. But October 20th, almost a month before she died, was the last time I stood next to her and we talked. For reasons unknown to me at the time I felt the need to record that we had.
And some people wonder why I believe certain events have meaning--particularly if we don't recognize that meaning at the time. | |
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We've begun to see a lot of Cadillac ads on LiveJournal, which seems like a pretty strange place to be advertising rich old-guy cars. So we asked some imaginary, LJ members why they chose, or might choose, Cadillac for their ride, and thought we'd share a few of those imaginary responses with you. Why LJ Members Drive, and Dream of Driving, a Cadillacname: heather_in_the_dust gender: f age: 16 lj member since: 2007 been driving for: 3 months, 1 week, 4 days estimated total assets: $187.29 + a lot of stuff purchased in the '90s that might have "antique value" in, like, 90 years + two parents who, in atonement for a totally messed-up separation and divorce, have backed their daughter to a platinum VISA card with a $10K credit line why Cadillac: right now im driving moms ... literally ... its saturday night and becky trent and i have the top down as i text this to my lj ... while the beast is doing *looks up* no shit 85 ??!!?!??! ... through the youwhos on western sunset ... heading for the beach ( more ... ) | |
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 This week's new members: hamburgerhop, fictionistawksp, deathcomes4u, cullenbabe86, amberkitsune, vytovoleskaWelcome to Creative Writer!This is your official welcome mat, an introduction to the fun which is our community and an entreaty for you to join in. How does it work?Creative Writer is an online version of a writers' group. While writing itself is usually a solitary occupation, what all writers need is contact with other people who can give feedback, answer questions and, as with all professions, provide guidance and a learning environment. While all artists create their work, they can't create in a vacuum. A writers group provides that environment. Here you are able to post excerpts from your work and receive feedback, here you can learn from other writers, here you can contribute to others, here is a safe place to grow your talent. So welcome to Creative Writer! Jump in, have some fun, any questions, feel free to ask at any time. ( A little history )( Community calendar )( Rules for this community )( How to make an LJ-cut )-o-o-o- Have fun and here's to great writing! Windcharmer & Ayoub (your local Creative Writer facilitators) | |
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