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Writing Prompt: The Moving Mountains

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“Hey, you should get up.” Melody kneeled beside her daughter, touching a hand to her arm and tugging gently. When no response came from the child, she tugged a little harder. “Lizzie, it’s time.”

Lizzie let out a quiet groan, then opened her eyes. She sat up immediately. “Oh no! I fell asleep!”

“It’s all right,” Melody chuckled. “You didn’t miss much. Mostly clouds. But we’re nearing the Moving Mountains and I knew you didn’t want to miss them.”

Standing up carefully, Lizzie looked over the edge of the basket of the hot air …

Writing Prompt: Figures of Speech

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Prompt: You’re on a space ship with a bunch of your crewmates. You’re the only human, and apparently metaphors are a strictly human behavior. You’ve learned to cope with this, but today you’ve decided to speak in only figures of speech as a prank on the others.

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“How’s it hanging, Moe?”

The 7-foot tall, thin dark-skinned man from Klorn stepped out of his quarters and looked over at me. “Hello Sarah. How’s what hanging?”

I laughed and continued down the corridor, coffee mug in hand. This was going to be fun.

“Did you make …

Recovering a Sense of Strength

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I just started reading Tehanu by Ursula Le Guin, the 4th book in her Earthsea series. Her writing style is so beautiful to me. It fills me with a sense of longing and urgency: I want to be able to do that. I feel the same way about Tolkien’s works, or whenever I watch the Lord of the Rings movies.

It inspired me to dig out The Artist’s Way again, and continue working through it to see if I can unblock my creativity. Synchronistically, I left off on week 8 which is about “Recovering a Sense of Strength” and it …

Morning Pages

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I have a lot of mixed feelings about writing. At times I get a lot of meaning and happiness from it, and at other times I feel like an untalented failure of a writer and avoid writing altogether. The latter has been winning out for the past few years, depression being one of a few factors. We talked about this in my therapy session today and given all the tools I’ve learned to deal with feelings of failure, I think I’m ready to try writing again.

The Artist’s Way came up, a book by Julia Cameron. The idea of trying …

Writing Prompt: Temple

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Prompt (Image): Temple

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Ethan’s mind was in a haze as he trudged up the last steps of the perilous path to the heart of the temple. The stones that made up the stairs were crumbling and he couldn’t trust his footing, but he ascended them mindlessly, making a series of quick educated guesses. He didn’t have the willpower for anything else, having traveled for days over the most perilous terrain that he’d ever encountered as an explorer, and on top of it all, he had lost John in the process. John had fallen off …

You CAN be a Self-Confident Introvert!

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I finished Felicia Day’s book today, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost)… it makes me sad. I want more! I want to be her friend! 🙁

For those who don’t know, Felicia Day is an actress who has been in a few popular sci-fi and fantasy TV shows. But she is most known for writing the popular web series The Guild. If you haven’t seen it and want to watch a hilarious show about a group of online gamers meeting up in real life, I highly recommend it.

Something that made me think a bit was just …

The Last Moon Elf: Chapter 22

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“Damien?” Whiskey said in disbelief.

Rain could only stare in hatred, thinking of how he’d killed Arok’Amon.

“Oh that’s right,” the Demonmaster hissed. “You don’t know yet, do you, Wizard? It’s Dar’Quath.”

Taking advantage of his surprise, Dar’Quath threw his hands forward at Whiskey, who immediately dropped to his knees, shouting in agony.

Her uneasiness at hurting another being with magic vanished at the sight of Whiskey in pain. Remembering their previous fight, she gathered red energy in her palms and quickly released a bolt at Dar’Quath. She …

The Last Moon Elf: Chapter 21

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They raced across the plains at a gallop with Maruck and Gralin in the lead and Tamrin and Rain following close behind. The clouds looked much like they had when she first came: dark and foreboding. The stale smell from before was also there, blown around by the wind. They’d make it to the door in time, but she was worried that the rain would come before the soldiers could return to Dolmeria.

They took one stop for water. To her surprise, Maruck took an …

The Last Moon Elf: Chapter 20

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Once they returned to the healer’s home, the guards left for their barracks and Faramond went back to the Crone to tell her what had happened. Rain sat at the table with another cup of tea. Lynara stood at her book stand, pouring over the book an elf had died for.

Rain tried not to think about what had happened and sipped the aromatic tea for something to do. As she drank the last of her cup, she looked over at Lynara, who hadn’t budged …

The Last Moon Elf: Chapter 19

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Outside, the wind howled and sent cold gusts rippling through their clothes as they rushed forward. Thunder rumbled overhead. A flash of lightning was visible in the distance, and in that brief second of light, black clouds churned.

“Quickly, Great Mother! We don’t have much time until the rain starts!” Faramond yelled above the noise of the storm. They all picked up their pace.

They followed him to an enormous building along the outside ring of the plaza. The front doors were two or three …