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Paul's Super Fun, Multi-part Unofficial Challenge
So, I'm really dragging my heels with completing prizes for the winners of my last challenge. But, please be patient because I am not Rembrandt, Huizenga, Carravagio, Munch or Bosch. I'm not even Andy Warhol. But I am an arsehole.
By Paul Stewart2 days ago in Writers
I Am Alexandra Grant
The Journey I started writing 17 months ago, after our son moved out to begin his life’s journey. After 20 years focused on our child and my husband, I felt purposeless. After 25-plus years, I picked up my drawing pencils again and started writing. I have a lot to say, it seems, since I am still at it. The road has been long and full of rejection. If constant rejection doesn’t teach you how strong or strong-willed you are, I don’t know what does. This new purpose has also brought success.
By Alexandra Grant3 days ago in Writers
Recovery Mechanics
For a long time, my post-breakup survival script was written in advance. The moment the silence became too heavy, the routine took over. I would reach out to an acquaintance or find a technical stranger, using someone else's body to temporarily dull the sharp edges of my own trauma and validate my existance as a desirable woman and nothing was wrong with me. It was never a quick fix, But a familiar way to numb the ache, but it always left me feeling more disconnected from myself than before Always resulted with me in a downward spiral of self loathing.
By Syl De'Vil4 days ago in Writers
The Sovereign Ink
There is a common delusion among phantoms that because they occupy a corner of a memory, they somehow hold the pen. When a name ripples through a piece of writing, or an old echo from twenty years ago provides the raw spark for a paragraph, the ghost often mistakes themselves for the creator. They look at the architecture of the prose, the depth of the emotion, and the fierce gravity of the words, and they flatter themselves with the belief that they are the ones driving the current. But a muse is not an architect; a muse is just a passing stone thrown into an ocean that was already infinitely deep.
By Syl De'Vil4 days ago in Writers
Fault Lines
Fault Lines The pain of a mild dysautonomic storm is a constant, grating, pounding friction, that if you do not manage in time will turn severe in a moments notice. On paper, today shouldn't be a total loss. The symptoms aren't catastrophic, but they are entirely debilitating all the same. It is a quiet undercurrent of exhausting physical pain that keeps my body locked in a state of high alert, hijacking the energy I need just to think, let alone create.
By Syl De'Vil5 days ago in Writers
Want to Get Healthy?!
Just finished two books that must be read together for one is the workbook to the main text entitled "Dr. A's Habits of Health" written by Dr. Wayne Scott Andersen. These are two books that will make one think about how one chooses to live their life and how their life can affect others that are a part of their living life. Do you want to live a healthy life in many ways physically, emotionally, and socially? Dr. A. guides you through these two books in a very detailed manner. When completed you will have earned a doctorate in health.
By Mark Graham5 days ago in Writers
