Visual Prompt - Dark Academia Two
This month's visual posts are all about dark academia aesthetics. April is poetry month, and my mind has been wandering to the mystical side today. So I hope you enjoy this free writing time.
Set your timer for 5, 10, or 15 minutes and write without stopping. You can handwrite or type it on a computer if that feels better.
Go…
Photo by Nav Rashmi Kalsi on Unsplash
Are you stuck, or is nothing coming to mind?
Here are some starts for you to try…
The box was left here by…
I have thrown this away 100 times, but…
She never knew what the box contained…
I hope you have been able to get started with a story today. Share in the comments what your story or your story start was about!
Visual Prompt - Cyberpunk Adventure #2
Candy Shop created by CH Schoen on Nightcafe.
Welcome to Free Write Day!
We are back, and I will add an image weekly to free-write with. The theme this month is cyberpunk this is I like to call the candy shop. I love to share this practice with everyone because it is so freeing. It is a practice to allow your mind to wander creatively into new stories. Set your timer for 5, 10, or 15 minutes and keep your hand moving! Write whatever comes to you. Shut off the editor. Have Fun!
Ideas I am pulling from this to get you started or if you are stuck.
I woke up in this place but…
She followed him in here…
If this store could be more…
Five Minute Friday - Strong
I never asked to be strong, and there are many times throughout the day when I question how strong I really am. I have been told many times I am strong because it was a hard time. That is what people say to you “You will make it because you are strong.”
Maybe I never wanted to be strong but felt like I wasn’t given a chance. What do we even consider to be strong in our world?
I wonder…
Is the person who says they are struggling mentally strong or
The person who refuses to have any type of emotion the strong one?
Is the friend who is always there for you even when their world is falling apart strong
Or
The friend who leaves without a word because they know they are too broken?
Can the one who breaks themselves to fit into society the
Or
The one who breaks all the rules society gives them stronger?
Is the mom who stays at home with the kids the stronger
Or
The mom who continues on with a career?
Are we only as strong as our circumstances allow
Or
Are we as strong as the stories we tell ourselves?
In this blog I have taken 5 minutes with the prompt word and above is my free write.
Five Minute Friday - Middle
I'm in the middle of a mess in my mind. My thoughts are being diced into fine herbs lost in a saute of worry. While I grab for these thoughts, like an angry dog trying to stop the water coming out the hose. I look around, longing to see my friends' hope and understanding in these days ahead, but I fear they have lost their way back to me. I walk from room to room, pacing, waiting for my mind to heal to feel something else besides numbness.
I settle in the middle of my bedroom floor while the sun rays warm me before the rain comes. I stare out the window to watch the trees dance in the wind of the approaching storm. I could never understand why these moments felt like seconds in comparison to the years of pain I endure.
There must be something wrong with me. Somewhere in the middle of my life, I made a wrong turn. I chose the wrong path. My mind filled with every bad thing in my world. Some….something is wrong me with me. No matter how bright the sun shines on me, the coldness floods in.
Chills begin to form, and my body shakes from head to toe. The middle of me is full of darkness, waiting to escape into the world. The black haze whispers things out of me to where the darkness lies. But the pain will not leave me because, at my core, I am darkness. I am the night. I am death.
In this blog I have taken 5 minutes with the prompt word and above is my free write.
Free Write - Pineapple Party
Photo by Pineapple Supply Co. on Unsplash
Welcome to Free Write Day!
I will be adding an image every week to free write with.
It is a practice to allow your mind to wander creatively into new stories.
Set your timer for 5, 10, or 15 minutes and write!
Have Fun!
Ideas I am pulling from this to get you started are….
What if you threw a party for the fruit in your life?
So you love fruit this much?
If a pineapple was to talk to you what would it say?
Five Minute Friday - Design
There are so many purses I have designs for, but I have never made them because of the sewing needles aspect. It makes me wonder how I was designed are there pieces of me that needed to come with me, but I couldn’t fit. Even now, I still don’t know what I am designed to do. I could be an excellent clutch for someone. Maybe I am an overnight bag or a long-lasting piece of luggage.
I sit feeling unmade, always feeling like there should be something more happening in my life. Yet, in the same breathe, I’m grateful for the simplicity of my life as a trusted black leather purse. I see myself as suitable for work and play no matter the time of day. I carry in me all the things that people want but sometimes forget they have. They go off to buy a new black bag thinking it would better than me. They always keep coming back to me, though, because I have the perfect strap length, and I’m not too big and not too small.
There are times when I wish I could take the designing wheel to make myself have beads, feathers, or a fun underlay cut out because so many people feel the design of a black bag is blah. In fact, I only own one, and though it is perfect, I find myself grabbing anything else to bring color to my life instead of old black.
My mind is complex and thrives on more knowledge as well as a balance of rest. I wish to be designed to do the ultra runs of life but keep finding resistance and that my mind will not allow me to go headstrong in one way. I’m forever bound to love everything.
In this blog I have taken 5 minutes with the prompt word design and above is my free write.
Free Write - Hope
Welcome to Free Write Day!
I will be adding an image every week to free write with.
It is a practice to allow your mind to wander creatively into new stories.
Set your timer for 5, 10, or 15 minutes and write!
Have Fun!
Ideas I am pulling from this to get you started are….
Do you ever go through life looking for signs?
How obvious are they for you?
Write a story about seeing this sign.
Free Write - Knight Shoe
Photo by James Pond on Unsplash
Welcome to Free Write Day!
I will be adding an image every week to free write with.
It is a practice to allow your mind to wander creatively into new stories.
Set your timer for 5, 10, or 15 minutes and write!
Have Fun!
Ideas I am pulling from this to get you started are….
Does the knight die?
I will this shoe…
The giants are back….
Free Write - Building in Beirut
Photo by Marten Bjork on Unsplash
Welcome to Free Write Day!
I will be adding an image every week to free write with.
It is a practice to allow your mind to wander creatively into new stories.
Set your timer for 5, 10, or 15 minutes and write!
Have Fun!
Ideas I am pulling from this to get you started are….
who lives here
what is a day in the life of someone living there
if I grew up here how would I feel about it now
Free Write - Blue
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Welcome to Free Write Friday!
I will be adding an image every Friday to free write with.
It is a practice to allow your mind to wander creatively into new stories.
Set your timer for 5, 10, or 15 minutes and write!
Have Fun!
Free Write - Snail Home
Photo by Sarah Trummer from Pexels
Welcome to Free Write Friday!
I will be adding an image every Friday to free write with.
It is a practice to allow your mind to wonder creatively into new stories.
Have Fun!
Free Write - Woman and the Blade
Welcome to Free Write Friday!
I will be adding an image every Friday to free write with.
It is a practice to allow your mind to wonder creatively into new stories.
Have Fun!
Writing What I Felt
I needed to write, but I was experiencing blah. Was that an emotion? It was my form of exhaustion in every way, shape, and form. I am not proud of it, but I have found a lot of my days lately have overflowed with stress. I sat in the morning pondering if I was going to write anything because I have been in a funk. I didn’t feel like writing at all, and I was not sure about the extensive project I promised myself I would finish.
So, what did I do when I didn’t feel like writing? What every good writer does surf the net. I realized email was an excellent place to start my procrastination. I was sent an email for Camp NaNoWriMo, and it was very inspiring for my moment in time. Write what you feel email by Kat Yeh said: “Some people say write what you know—I say write what you feel.”
Through my academic circles, I had studied plenty about writing what I knew, however writing what I felt has been felt out. I had not heard someone approach writing what you feel this way before. When I have been looking up ideas about character emotions, I have come across a lot of writers and artist taking a sharp memory and writing from the feelings you had at that moment — this type of writing I can do with ease. There are days, weeks, and sometimes months when I have struggled with writing. When the thought of a book came up, it felt more like a chore than something I wanted to do. The writing honeymoon was over, and it only took three years.
I am not ready to divorce writing or my muse. However, I needed to know how to work on my relationship when I didn’t feel like being in it. I heard from people give up writing and do something else with your life. What people have not witnessed was how great writing had been the one thing that had carried me through the darkness, and joy I felt in creation. I was at least staring at my screen, I got my butt in the chair, and I continued to watch the blinking curser. How in the world could I write what I feel when I didn’t even feel like writing?
In these moments of blah was when mind dumping and free writing were my lifesavers (suddenly have a candy craving). The email I had read said to take a few minutes to just writing whatever it was you were feeling. Sometimes I need to vent, and there was no one else to listen. So, I vent to the computer screen. With the beautiful world of dictation, I can yell at my device, and it will record every word I say. However, just like humans, it has continuously got some of it wrong.
I decided to do a little therapeutic writing, getting all of these emotions and thoughts onto a page for about 5 minutes. This was when a light bulb turned on for me. I have heard many times from many people, even in my academic writing circles to write what you know but what I knew at that moment was what I felt.
Then from the instruction of the email, I began to write a character in a funk about life and feeling in some way, it will never get better than this. This woman couldn’t see the future for all the things going on in her life right then. They couldn’t see the joy of the light or the relief of the rain. They stared off into the darkness, and it consumed this character like a moth to a flame. And just like that, the main character for my next book was born.
The moral of this story is to just write.