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Just Be There Blog

by DyrHearte writes

Rated: 18+ · Book · Writing.Com · #388967

Daily notes and timed freewrites but mostly my blog

All comments are encouraged, I am interested in what others think and feel along the topics I choose to write about.

Highlighted entries:

[#732826] "In Memory"

Thank-you geja8856 for this wonderful gift

Half Borgevna and half Morivini and destined to save her world.

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10 Most Recent Blog Comments:

Spirit words 🦋📜

Sep 28, 2024 at 6:12pm
In response to "my official first day back from a long hiatus"

Hi 👋☺️ and welcome back 😁. Even though I don't know you, it's nice to hear from someone who found benefits in being here 😉! I read your previous entries and wow a lot of changes in your life. Glad you're well and getting back to write ✍️ again.
I lived in Tacoma for a while and understand the short growing season 🌹 🌽 ( not to mention how not fun working graveyard 🪦 must have been for
you.
Glad you were added to the newsletter fellow blogger.
Write ✍️ on!

Soldier_Mike

Jun 9, 2020 at 4:19pm
In response to "Remember "Tricky Dicky"?"

I don't remember Mr. Nixon well, as I was just a teenager not particularly interested in politics, but I was sitting in my barracks room about 5 miles away from the Oval Office when he resigned. It was a very strange time and strange feeling. The last time I "lost" a President in office was when JFK was assassinated. Nixon's resignation wasn't at all the same scenario, but something had still gone very wrong.

DyrHearte writes

Dec 13, 2019 at 2:27am
In response to "snow, shoveling, scraping off car, wet, slippery snow"

Yes, shoveling, comes with the wet white. I see that it's snowing again a bit. So maybe we will have this around for a while

DyrHearte writes

Dec 13, 2019 at 1:36am
In response to "snow, shoveling, scraping off car, wet, slippery snow"

Yes, shoveling, comes with the wet white. I see that it's snowing again a bit. So maybe we will have this around for a while

MichelleWriteMeow

Dec 11, 2019 at 7:45pm
In response to "snow, shoveling, scraping off car, wet, slippery snow"

I sat down to work on something late last night, and between midnight and 2 a.m. -- I finally looked up to realize there was snow outside. And it kept snowing and snowing. It warmed up a bit but I sort of hope it stays, too. We had that one weird storm in October (they didn't close campus but I was absolutely late for class), and then nothing since! I drove back from a neighboring city last night and got lucky: all I encountered was fog. Now I'm waiting to hear if I have to shovel that sidewalk all the way around the side of the house...

DyrHearte writes

Sep 3, 2019 at 12:30am
In response to "Rescue"

I visit often, but I haven't written for a long while. Today my muse was frisky

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🌝 HuntersMoon

Sep 3, 2019 at 12:13am
In response to "Rescue"

Where ya been? Miss seeing you around. Reads well.

DyrHearte writes

Jul 2, 2018 at 11:45am
In response to "Fortune Cookie Wisdom"

Nah, I'll take the soft pretzel with mustard. Good to see you Ken

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🌝 HuntersMoon

Jul 1, 2018 at 10:09pm
In response to "Fortune Cookie Wisdom"

Glad to see you back and posting something. 😃 First of all, it's from a fortune cookie! 😜 Let me interpret it for you:

Live for today - Eat the damn cookie.
Remember yesterday - You were hungry for something sweet.
Plan for tomorrow - Yuk - this tastes like cardboard. Maybe I'll go with a cupcake!

😂 🤣 Ken

🌝 HuntersMoon

May 30, 2017 at 9:07pm
In response to "Creativity Agenda"

Now you've got it!

Remember, write first for yourself. Who cares if anyone else likes it? That's not why we write. Just remember what Robert Frost said: "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." Yes, it's that's simple

Ken

May 30, 2017 at 3:01pm

#912042

Creativity Agenda

Three days ago 🌝 HuntersMoon

visited and commented on my last entry. Yesterday I responded and my response got me to thinking about the writer's block thing I've been struggling with over the years.

I said something like my lack of self confidence is what is possibly causing the lack of creative energy which equates to writer's block. Lack of self confidence, isn't quite the point, however. Specifically, I have a lot of confidence in my writing ability, but it's the sharing of my creativity is where I falter. You see, I write to feel good and when I feel good I want others to feel good too. So I write to share feeling good. When my last love affair failed I lost trust in sharing myself. Innately, when "my companionship" was rejected then I felt all of me was rejected. I felt as if I was a throwaway person; someone not good enough to be around other people. Thus, if I wasn't good enough to be around those I loved, then my talents for writing wasn't good enough either. So I did everyone a favor and stopped associating with everyone, including those here at WDC.

I have rarely ever received a review or comment on my writings here at WDC that was negative. In fact, here is where I've received the most rewarding encouragement regarding my creative thoughts. (Which is why I'm still a member of this wonderful writing community.) I have received validation, encouragement, and friendship over these long years to help me realize that I wasn't the failure that caused my life partner to leave; but point in fact, her choice to leave was her failing.

My recent experiences coming back into a family circle and receiving unconditional acceptance I think has finally broken the ice around my muse. I've been thinking of warming up exercises to get my muse thawed out and excited again. Things are a bit vague at this moment, after all my muse has been shy for nearly fourteen years and frozen to inaction for eight years.

I know I need to start with small steps.

Step One: Talk about it

Step two: Feel confident enough about stepping out of the safety of the shadows to at least peak around the corner and see what is outside of myself.

Step three: write something creative--BIC and write a scene, a poem, a paragraph, a story--big or small, doesn't matter.

Step four: write something two days in a row, doesn't have to be related to the day before, but it has to come from my imagination.

Step five: BIC--write again and Step six, seven, eight, nine-- Step thirty: keep on writing.

Step 31: If I haven't been taken over by my muse by this time then start looking at my old stories and see if this familiar territory will excite her. (I have this feeling, I won't have to wait thirty days for my muse to wake up.)

Therefore, Step ?: Expand story horizons. I have many to choose from since my muse has played periodically during the glacial years. Here is a partial list:

"Alternate Worlds Explored Archive b/j"

[13+]; "freewrites: prompts, scenes, or teasers"

[13+]; "Failed Magic"

[E]; "Woodland Encounter"

[13+]; "A Phoenix and Her Wizard"

[ASR]; "Dialogue between a Priest and a Magician"

[ASR]; "The Honor of Liondin's Legion "

[E]; "Institute"

[13+]; "The Mighty Steed "

[E]; "The Thornton Mascot"

[E]; "Communion"

[E]; and "Sweet Breaths"

[ASR].

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Step 3 complete

Rescue and other bouts of imagination

(E)
stellar ships react to a planetary emergency/A child and adult discuss sound in space/...
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