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    Emotional Rescue

    By Cole Matthews

    Ahhhh!  The plot is thickening.  The characters have developed perfectly.  You have balanced your pace so there is riveting action, informative scene setting, and a richness to your tableau.  Everything seems to be going so well, and yet, your beta reader drops a bomb on you.  "It's just falling flat."   What are you supposed to do?  Where do you turn?  How can you enrich and round out your characters?  How about a little emotional rescue?  Let's try filling in the back story of y
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Warning: Fragile

I feel like if anyone touches me, I'll break. Even if it's a hug, I'll just break. It doesn't matter if they love me or not, at this point enough bad things have happened that I'll just fall apart. I really hate feeling this way. All day today I've been kind of tearing up and then having take a few deep breaths to calm myself down. I'm nearing hysterical, and it's just not fun.   Why?   Some bad shit has happened to me, and I just don't want to talk about it. I'm shamed and feeling a

Razor

Razor

Complete HELL

I posted this last night but it wasn't working so I'm posting it now   I can tell you from the start that this entire blog is going to be nothing but bitching. So if you really don't want to hear me complain and sound like a little bitch, then leave. Other than that, by all means, please do enjoy   So let's start with CJ since that was just a couple minutes ago. I'm sick of reading one chapter every week. He always leaves the things on a cliffhanger and leaves you sitting there for a week

JSmith

JSmith

A new guy, Aaron

A few days ago I was at work and this cute guy sitting at the counter gave me his number, last night (my first night off) I gave him a call and he came over... we went to a little park and hung out for a bit, then headed back to my place and had a couple drinks. As I was walking to his car we kissed...   I was taken a bit by surprise at his kissing style. How to describe it.... well, it was a lot more... aggressive than what I was used to, and quite a bit, um.... sloppier. But, as we continued

Demetz

Demetz in Demetz

Bad News

I'm afraid I'm not going to be able to finish the anthology story. I'm having a hard time writing very much at a time. I'm also going to be moving next week, and that does not give me a lot of time. Add the personal issues I'm having right now, and you have one uninspired writer. I am also not likely to spend much time online except for my classes. I really need to cut down on my online time for a while. I have no idea how long either. I'm not saying that I'll be gone for a long time, but I prob

Tiger

Tiger

Africa...what can they do?

Warning: Rant Ahead   I know I probably could have started this discussion in the Soapbox, but my feelings are too strong to take what I'm about to say there. I feel a real anger when I think about the people of Africa, and what they're subjected to on a daily basis. Not just by outsiders, but their own people.   If you've been following the Global Warming thread in the Soapbox, you can see where I addressed the issue, but I really held back. I don't understand how someone can be against glo

NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

Engima!

Well... figured I would start a blog on here instead of blogger (this one seems cooler!). Anywho I'm working on a short story entitled Alone. It's sorta based on a period of time that I encountered with both my feelings and my well... emoness. I changed around the names and such but I really perfer to use the settings because I don't want to detract of my original setting.   On another note I just got out of the hospital and am feeling better so I hopefully can get Alone finished and get star

Phantom

Phantom

Troy

I'm spending the night in Troy, IL, when I should be further down the road. I had to stop at the T/A to get fuel and going on would've meant logging another 15 minutes for a post-trip inspection. By stopping here, I was able to combine the required 15 minutes for fuel and do a post-trip at the same time.   I finished Chapter 6 this morning. It deals with six different characters in three difference situations. Right now, it appears the character Six is taking over the story. I strongly suspect

CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

Praying for August

So this summer is going to be entirely too busy! I've been dreading it for months now, and it basically officially started for me Monday and now I'm just desperately hoping I can hold out till August.   I have to take THREE summer courses, a major exams (5 hours long!), do observations and curriculum AND work full-time!   Basically this translates into getting up early every morning, working, going straight to class, not getting home till about 8:30 or 9 at night (and that's for right now

AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

Made Marion

I made Marion, IL, tonight instead of stopping in Paducah. My new load delivers tomorrow evening in Sterling, IL, so I wanted to get as far as possible today without messing up my log book. Actually, I was planning on fudging on the book a little, but the scale was open south of Marion so there is a record of my truck passing through it at about the time I wanted to show I was already in Marion. I know it sounds complicated, but running out of hours is a major screw-up and I've been driving long

CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

size matters?

Alright, I suppose it's time for such a blog... After all, the running jokes are 'It's always about size with you guys' and 'I thought you said it was a good size'.   Rich and I were just driving home and this commercial came on the radio that started out...   "Does size matter? OF COURSE IT DOES!!! I lived with four girls in college and listened to them talking about men and their experiences, so I know, IT DOES MATTER! But it's not length they want, it's width and thickness, and now you c

viv

viv

How safe is your job?

So after a long conversation with Rayna about an incident at my working place I started thinking... (I know, I know it's a miracle right?)   I guess I should start off by explaining what happened then?   So If you didn't already know, one of my jobs involves working with kids, teaching classes etc doing the afternoon. Well during the evenings we have groups who come in and use our facilities, so I pretty much hang out in the office and do some fileing/paperwork and make sure that everyon

Meeko

Meeko

Missouri

You've probably heard me say this before, but I like Missouri. In fact, I like Missouri so much I'd like to see it become the first totally gay state in the United States.   I think we should demand this at the next convention of the Gay Agenda. Missouri needs us.   Look at what this state has to offer. First off, it's mostly green. Well, in the winter the corn and soybean fields do go a bit brown, but there are the trees, no, wait they aren't green either. Okay, it's not green in the winter

CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

Snow!

It's still winter in Wyoming.   Last night I picked up a trailer headed for South Carolina. I have to be there Tuesday.   I stopped for breakfast in Sinclair, Wyoming. If you're familiar with Sinclair gasoline, this is where it comes from. From what I understand the downtown area is quite picturesque from when this was a company town.   It was snowing a little when I stopped. Just a little. I took a little nap. I ate a breakfast cookie, banana, drank an orange juice, and swallowed my meds.

CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

*sick cackle*

I've been sick...unfortunatly. I hate colds. As it is, I can't move from 10 feet from my fan without getting all hot. On top of that, I'm in lots of pain, mostly my back. I'm stuck taking some major pain killers and hoping to high hell that it will go away. It's ebil!! Ebil I say! :icon_twisted: See!!   I hate colds. But at least I've been doing a lot of writing. Finished an entry for another forum and the writing excersise that we had. It was so much fun! Now...I have a story to finish before

S.L. Lewis

S.L. Lewis

2 years old

Its been a little over 2 years since I came out to myself. I hardly even remember what it was like thinking I was anything other than gay. My rebirth as a gay man 2 years ago resulted in a great deal of personal growth and changes, many good but the occasional one a bit more painful to go through.... life before being openly gay is now more of a distant memory, almost as though it happened to somebody else.   In some senses, it did happen to someone else. The me before I came out was radicall

Demetz

Demetz in Demetz

Round 2

A few people know my Aunt is just recovering from a battle with breast cancer that cost her, her left breast. She is the reason the pink racing Strip appeard on my home page. Her Cancer was agressive, and the "suspect" she had found doubled in size in the month it took her to get the mammography appointment. Subsequently it had spread into the lymph nodes on the left side of her body as well.   Those were removed at the same time her left breast was removed. From there she faced chemo therapy

shadowgod

shadowgod

Here's what Obama has to do

So it's pretty obvious that Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee. Unless there's some underhanded deal in a back alley abortion clinic somewhere that gives Hillary the nomination, that is. So, now it's Obama vs. McCain, and the attacks will no doubt start flying his way from the repukes. So what's an extreme leftist piece of crap like Obama to do?   Give the Iraqi's a real date to have control over the violence in their own country Offer incentives to American companies to research a

NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

Some People

Everyone now and then, we read or hear about a reason why more people should practice birth control. This Houston Chronicle story is about such an example. I read the story just a few minutes before starting this entry, but I thought I would share it. I am not sure that sharing this story in the forums would be a good idea. Anyway, what these guys did was not only creepy, it was a reprehensible way to treat another human being who is no longer among the living. What is wrong with people these da

Tiger

Tiger

Motel

I'm in the Econo Lodge in Salt Lake City hoping I'll get my new truck today. There's a chance I might have to take a Kenworth W900 which presents itself a whole lot better than a Volvo 670, but it's a bear to back into tight docks. At this point in time I can't be too picky though. You don't have to take a W900, but it might mean sitting for another day until a Volvo comes out of the detail shop.   No, I haven't written anything. I meant to, I tried to, but not a lot came out. Chapter Six isn'

CarlHoliday

CarlHoliday

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

If you haven't read the book, do it soon. I'm rereading it, and I'm quite fond of this book. Definitely on my top ten list, anyway. So, this is a poem from the book that I thought worth sharing. It's a really important part of the book and you'll understand more if you read the book, but it's awesome even by itself. I hope you enjoy it, anyway.   Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines   he wrote a poem   And he called it "Chops"   because that was the name of his dog  

Razor

Razor

Perspective...

So, the following is something that is intimately personal. Tony, my baby brother who isn't such a baby anymore at 21, wrote this for a writing class in college and I asked him if I could post it here because it was so special and means a lot to me.   It's interesting reading his version of what happened when I was there living it too, and how much his memories are only a tiny sliver of everything that was actually happening. I'm glad I could protect him from remembering those things, cause t

viv

viv


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