A Piece Of My Heart

by Emily

Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #2166092

A blog to house my musings, curiosities, and fascinations.

#986949 added July 30, 2020 at 4:07pm
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2020 is Half Over...

I don't understand how half of 2020 is over already. I must be getting old.

Before getting into this, I need to take a moment to thank the entire Quills team for putting on the 2019 Quill Awards ceremony last month (read the ceremony notes here: "Quill Ceremony Notes"

). It was my first time listening in live, and it was so impressive all the work Elle, Kit, and the panelists do to keep the thing running. Thank you!! If you're reading this, remember to keep the "Quill Nomination Form 2024"

bookmarked so you can nominate worthy items for next year's Quills Ceremony!

I was blessed to receive 3 Quill wins, 3 Honorable Mentions, and place as a finalist in 2 additional categories. Notably, "Callused Hands"

won two Quills for Best Medium Length Poem and Best Medical/Health!

Wow-oh-wow! Much thanks to "The Not-So-Daily Poem"

for supplying the winning prompt for that poem! I'm very happy that contest is back for July

"It's a Journey"

won Best Single Person Activity.

"The Winning Color"

received Honorable Mention in the Action Adventure and Short Story categories. "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"

received Honorable Mention as well for Best Contest. Go Bloggers!

I was also very happy to be selected as a finalist for my Portfolio and for my poem "All the Things You've Given Me"

And this shiny is pretty sweet too

In June, I managed to keep up with the "Promptly Poetry Challenge (2023-2024)"

- woohoo! I'm really enjoying taking the prompts and making them my own. I know I will not feel inspired by all the prompts (that's just a given), so I'm glad I can find ways to spin the prompt to something that does inspire me. I always want to write things that make me feel something. I don't want to share a poem on here that is an intentional "throw-away." That is, if I struggle on a poem and it comes out poorly, that's okay. But what I don't want to do is intentionally put something out onto the internet that I didn't even try to make good. Anyway, here's what I was able to write in June:

STATIC

Cyclic

(E)
How we understand time is how we make sense of our lives.
#2223718 by Emily

STATIC

Little Tree

(E)
Lessons of neighbors across worlds
#2223863 by Emily

STATIC

Escape

(ASR)
Only when I can't remember how far I’ve gone, do I stop in a little town without a name
#2224943 by Emily