Moving to Richmond was scary... it's not that far from home, but I was leaving behind what little I had in life.  I'd only moved HOME a few months before that, so moving again was a big thing, but it had to be done. I didn't want to leave my friends... but I did... and since I've been here, I've made NEW friends, and gotten closer to old friends, ( Read more... )

 Strings, attached to my insides, being pulled in ten different directions.  A weight on my back that's crushing me ever so slowly.  Liquid seeping from between eyelids squeezed shut.  Life stresses beating me from every way.  What he wants. What she wants. What they want. What I want. It all feels so trivial... my heart and my head scream at each ( Read more... )

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My second creative writing class in college... my professor was this amazing woman named Lauren Groff.  My first creative writing professor, who shall remain nameless, almost had me convinced that I should never write again simply because the genre I chose ( Read more... )

Sometimes it's hard to communicate on paper a story that you love because the words that you write don't convey the depth of feeling you need them to... It's such a challenge. Sometimes I think it's better to just leave it in my head, so that I can't disfigure the idea beyond recognition on paper... but then it's stuck there, stagnant, and what ( Read more... )

It all really comes to down to making your own decisions and accepting the ripple they create without remorse... Learning from experience is one thing, regretting everything is something else entirely. By living this way we'll make mistakes, but in real life you're going to make mistakes regardless. You can let the fear of making those mistakes ( Read more... )

They say to be a good writer, you have to write everyday, whether it's a poem, or a journal entry, or prose... so that's what I'm gonna do. Write ( Read more... )

---You know what the first rule of flying is? Well, I suppose you do since you already know what I'm about to say ( Read more... )

I wrote a book. 35 chapters. 274 pages.

I'm very proud... & I love Foxy Shazam... & Head Automatica... even Tyler loves them, which is odd.

Uh huh.

My friend Alisha Gregory just became Alisha Kelsay!! Her wedding was at 2pm today, and it was a beautiful ceremony. But the thing is, when I see her so happy with Thomas after only being together a year and then I look at my own relationship of three years, I wonder what the difference is between my relationship and hers, that Thomas was more than ( Read more... )

So I read the Banned & the Banished series... all five books... straight through... I barely took breaks to eat and sleep... okay, I lied, I ALWAYS took breaks to eat... but that's beside the point... the books were flipping amazing and EVERYONE should read them. 'Nuff said.
Rock.