Light Dreamer

Cheeks be laden with crusted salt

eyes the colour of rain

oh, but to see the sunshine.

She sits upon the common sheets

so late this hour she keeps

and from the open window across from her

and through the fabric cast aside

gentle fingers sift through the glass

between where charging beams would mount

to cast the shadow on the wall.

Still, the shepherd's breath,

painted be her thoughts

captured, kept a moment

lain to waste with the morning sun

and renewed for the glory of the night.

Unending for tears wept

and forgotten. 

My 10 Tips for Writing

1. If you find that you have a story in your mind, and that it you loose all motivation to write it after the first few lines try finding a story or idea in your mind that's still developing, develop it as you write your first draft. This avoids you having a developed story grow boring, like a movie you've already seen twenty times before in your head. You don't want to grow tired of your story before before you reach the second chapter.
2. Allow room for change. Sometimes great ideas will come halfway through writing your story.
3. When you hit a block, try skipping ahead. Remember, you can bridge sections later.
4. Or, in a block, try to develop a new character or add depth to a current character. Add a layer in and write it out properly, integrating it into the draft.
5. Gain a proper, in-depth understanding of all your characters, the more real and believable they are, the more engaging it is for the reader.
6. Make them real, with faults, and don't simply try to live through them, make them different from yourself, but close enough so you can write them truthfully (check with Mary Sue test)
7. You don't have to have solid themes beforehand, it's great if you do but otherwise, once you're part way through check what themes are developing naturally. You can then choose whether to work form them and/or to keep them running through the book.
8. You also don't have to make themes to obvious, and you can have more than one, you can have several main themes and others in the background, remember, the more well thought-out and in-depth layers you have to you work, the more interesting it is.
9. Read your book out loud to yourself to check your writing, and read parts backwards, sentence by sentence to check them, (reading backwards helps prevent you from reading what you think is there and helps you read each word objectively).
10. Lastly, write fearlessly. Remember that writing is power, you can always come back and change your work, but the more you write the better at it you will become naturally. Also, cultivate your mind, look at how other writers write, find new material and be unafraid to try new things out in your writing.

Character Profile

Character - Lucy
From - The Order's Experiments

Lucy is a computer technician and warrior-in-training with the Order. She is a bright, outgoing, friendly and considerate person, with a generally casual and happy attitude. At fist she seems like a shallow, bubbly, unthinking character, but she is also intelligent, diligent, and sensitive when required. Out of all the trainees she has the least trouble dealing with the Order, having joined of her own free will and possessing the greatest ability to use the Order to her own advantage. This is shown by her ability to hack into lower systems of the Order to track other trainees, find and use the subway system, and understand the mind drug the Order puts in their food. Because of her ability to see the Order's security cameras she is the most informed of all the trainees, but because of her immediate value as a computer technician she is not made to suffer many of the hardships most the other trainees do. She is the character other characters go to to feel better, having the most knowledge and the healthiest attitude towards the Order, she is able to console and often distract people when they have been effected by the Order. She also keeps an element of normality about her, not only being talkative and humorous, but with a continued interest in music and socialism making her an ideal loyal friend.

Famous Writers

Routine Writers

I only write when I am inspired. Fortunately I am inspired at 9 o’clock every morning. ~William Faulkner

And I’m a slow writer: five, six hundred words is a good day. That’s the reason it took me 20 years to write those million and a half words of the Civil War. ~Shelby Foote

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I’m sick or well. ~Arthur Hailey

All through my career I’ve written 1,000 words a day—even if I’ve got a hangover. You’ve got to discipline yourself if you’re professional. There’s no other way. ~J.G. Ballard

I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five. ~Nicholas Sparks

I have to get into a sort of zone. It has something to do with an inability to concentrate, which is the absolute bottom line of writing. ~Stephen Fry

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. ~Barbara Kingsolver

- From Tumblr 

The Distroying

Blurb

It’s depression; depression has swept the world reducing it to what it is now. Even though years have past since the initial Destroying, cities weep in their sleep. Strays litter the streets of towns gone and cities under strain. Rust clings to the buildings, the smell of blood stains the ground, everybody fears the Repetition, everybody knows it will come.



Prologue

Four years ago the earth was thrown into turmoil when the Destroying came to be. Many believed it the work of God’s wrath or Satin's, others called it the Earth’s revenge, some simply left explanation behind and tried to bear through the time. Whatever it was thought to be, everybody went through the same phenomenon no science or scientist could explain. Even after the Destroying the pain didn’t end. The Riots then came so man could prove it was still its own worst enemy. Many died from the Destroying, many went to join them during and after. Then the Riots came to an end and the Depression crept over then swept over the world quiet as breath.

But a new promise came, a promise of Repetition. The Destroying to come again, one perhaps even worse than the first, with a violent Rioting, followed by a worse Depression, some don’t even think it’ll get that far, they believe the apocalypse will come first and grant the world peace from mankind at last. Nobody wants to think of it, nobody says anything, they just try to live and pray, pray that somehow it will be all right. Some, maybe the smart ones, don’t bother.

Right now I'm working on a novel I left years ago, trying to update what I've done and then hopefully finish it. If no one minds I'll post completed parts here, please feel free to comment and criticise, any feedback is a gift!

Character development

A concept every writer should be familiar with is the character idea of Mary-sue and Barry-sue. Most of you will probably already know about this character trap, of making your characters too perfect. They become almost like ultra ego's for yourself and you make them perfect and fantastic versions of yourself that everyone likes, or regrets not liking. There are different types and variations of Mary and Barry sue characters, and thankfully ways of testing how believable or unbelievable your characters are. A friend of mine showed me this great website, you can use it to check the believability of your characters. The important thing is to get people your readers can relate to, real people, with flaws and shortcomings and quirks. 

Mary-Sue test