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    Points of View - The Ultimate Personification of an Object

    By Cole Matthews

    Points of view are so important in stories.  As writers, we have to pretend to be someone else, feel what they feel, and ache with their longings.  As an exercise, let's pretend to be something not alive.  You can fill the object with whatever you feel or think.  The object will become a character, a witness, and your sounding board.     #215 - You are a porch swing.  You must describe the events that unfold around you, but only during times of great emotion.  That's when you awaken.  
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I have to keep moving

Ok, so a lot has happened this weekend, and it hasn't been easy. But I know I have to keep moving, and I'm going to. Myr just posted the Anthology today, and I was proud to see my story there. I'm not saying it was all that, but to have a story posted on the same page as Lugh and RHawes and Viv was amazing to me. Also, I have goals and I have to keep working to get them accomplished. I started almost a year ago on xanga, posting What's the difference for about 5 readers, but that grew to about

NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

Best of time, worst of times

Sumbloke is getting married! I am delighted for him. He is a sweet guy and deserves all the success and happiness that life offers. For this I am delighted.   As much as this Sumbloke's news pleases me, I am stinging over the loss of Green. I thought very highly of him. Sure he had his issues but he was a bright guy, talented writer and a person of great promise. I am going to miss him.   This my friends is life- joy and pain, success and loss, yin and yang. Treasure the ones you care about,

JamesSavik

JamesSavik

Sad

The news of Green and David's accident followed by Green's death and Chaz's suffering has me devastated, and I'm trying to work out why. I don't know them in real life, I hardly know them here. It's not as if we talked in live chat. I've only been here a short while and only know of them through blog and stories.   I think it's because this is a site for fiction, and this is not the way the story was supposed to go. I'm very angry at how unfair life is, and very, very sad.   ------ Lo! some

Camy

Camy

Bipolar.

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Conflagration

Conflagration

No way to describe it

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NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

A "Wordy" Entry

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AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

The Taiwanese postal service is evil

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LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

g.l.a.a.d. to be here!

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viv

viv

So I might change my profile name

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NickolasJames8

NickolasJames8

Wow. It's a schooner.

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lagomorph

lagomorph

In their next life, maybe they will be pond scum

I just want to say that I think people who use other people as pawns in head games are the lowest form of life. Especially when they use vulnerable people. There are people like this. They can smell who is useable and who is not. I suspect they spend much of their conscious time sniffing the air

Luc

Luc

Things keep churning slowly

Real Life's been kind of kicking my ass lately, and I've not been getting nearly the sort of writing done that I'd like. The rewrite of the last two chapters of Yankee, any of Carpe Diem (though at least I've got the background research I need done for that one), Wild Life, What Lies Beneath, any of the little interstitials with Justin and Rob... all just sitting there.   Not that I've been un-busy -- it's been an eventful month, what with having my dog euthanized, the separation, landing a po

TheZot

TheZot

Nothing Specific

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vlista20

vlista20

My Hips Don't Lie

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AFriendlyFace

AFriendlyFace

Thesis editing and itchy legs

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LittleBuddhaTW

LittleBuddhaTW

Easter Sucks

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Mark Arbour

Mark Arbour

Speed Skaters

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Mark Arbour

Mark Arbour

We had sex, but he made love to me first

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viv

viv

God or the Girl- GMAFB!

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JamesSavik

JamesSavik


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