Part 2
wherein I do a little fieldwork at the bookstore in search of the source of my angst and a way to break past patterns where I kicked opportunity to the sidewalk when it knocked on my door.
Some context:   more...
In part 1, I explain how a big opportunity has come along and with it, so has a rising sense of fear that I may fail in the endeavor.
Part 4: "AfterThoughts"
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FEAR of HAPPINESS, the Series:

Part 1-
An invitation from a successful writer (writes for a living) to join a writer's group brings to the surface a fear of...success? failure..? Not sure...

Part 2-
I go looking for some answers in the self-help section of the books store

Part 3-
Before the first meeting of the writer's group, I ask myself what I want from it

Part 4-
Reflections after having returned from the first meeting.  less

Every other Sunday, we will add a new writing challenge for writers and non-writers alike to participate in!
Have fun!

Just a video to point out that we don't all have to agree to have valid points and different ways of looking at things. (Syd)

A response to Syd aka LVbianSynic, this is what I use to do when I had something bothering me, its been a long time coming thank you for reminding me, this is very therapeutic for me, I simply write my   more...problems, toubles, worries down on paper, light them on fire, watch them burn and then let them blow away in the wind.  less

This interview was a while ago, but they never sent me the reel, so I just recorded it and posted it.

This is the SOLUTION of WRITING YOURSELF to freedom. And I am here to give perspective of how writing yourself, assist and support you within your individual process of realizing self through self insight   more..., self observation.
And in that, in moments of self realization, and self insight, setting your free, as the purity of expression in innocence of life as who you are.
Lets take a look at how the mind works. First, the mind stores memories. What are memories? Memories are recordings of moments of experiences that has occurred in the past......................  less

Part 3
Just before leaving for the writer's group Julie, the writer, has set up.
I'm wondering what the heck I want to get out of this journey- this new commitment.
Part 4: "AfterThoughts"
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  more...
FEAR of HAPPINESS, the Series:

Part 1-
An invitation from a successful writer (writes for a living) to join a writer's group brings to the surface a fear of...success? failure..? Not sure...

Part 2-
I go looking for some answers in the self-help section of the books store

Part 3-
Before the first meeting of the writer's group, I ask myself what I want from it

Part 4-
Reflections after having returned from the first meeting.
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Three self-penned poems...

Hearts On Fire

Hot blood comes coarsing, fast, through my veins
"Hold on tight boy, hold onto the reins."
Yesterday's burn remembers the unbargained wager
Hot dice rolled,   more...eyes closed, an imminent danger
Yet, searing blazes ignite, ourselves aglow with fire
As a tendered heart knows of love's ending pyre.
How far must we keep from the inferno of the heat,
To a cost of smoldering embers, our souls never to meet.


Two (To) A Bed

We sleep two (to)
a bed
touching only words
left unsaid
On scortched sheets faded,
from view
amongst no light, color, or hue.

Windswept dreams blown over
passion
winter's cold season
faintly in fashion.
I finally awake
to a textile embrace,
at love's hidden memory
leaving no trace.

SHE IN SIX LINES

And, her vissage with strands of undulating curls, culminating in
golden fire, cooled only by her white smile.

From amidst a vestal’s heart, uniformly consecrated by beams of
Her returning, unending grace.

She walks in steps hinted by fragrence of patchouli, faint clues
To indelible vestiges of her man’s heart.

Her sweet angel’s breath, speaks to the flowers of the field in
Gentle tunes, to the light amusement of time.

A spark of her own, pursued and somehow found, careens throughout
Worlds in unending lifespan, time curving inward, unto a lover’s equinox.

And yet, ashes rain fron an ascending phoenix, riding upon
The sweet edges of a crest, emanating only…from her love, and...  less

Part 4, final in the series

Thoughts after coming back from a first big step toward a dream
- a writer's group.
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FEAR of HAPPINESS, the Series:

Part 1-
An invitation from a successful   more...writer (writes for a living) to join a writer's group brings to the surface a fear of...success? failure..? Not sure...

Part 2-
I go looking for some answers in the self-help section of the books store

Part 3-
Before the first meeting of the writer's group, I ask myself what I want from it

Part 4-
Reflections after having returned from the first meeting.
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Are strength and will enough for one's last days?

Challenge #
"The Elvis Effect"

Create a very short piece of fiction
with the following elements in it:

Setting: Somewhere above sea level
Elvis
and a condiment of choice

Thanks to Axegrinder01 for   more...the ideas on this one!  less

Challenge #1
"Fairy Tales & Bombs"

Create a very short piece of fiction
with the following elements in it:

Setting; A bomb shelter
Characters from a well-known fairy tale
and YOU

Sometimes Jen and Mary ask me to write for them. Here's a little glimpse into that process.

Is the Wicked Awesome gang about to be featured on NBC? What are they talking about?

Hunter sneaks in to a party in North Korea Town, Los Angeles. Z, the love of her life, has joined the Nokokids once again.

A portion from a workshop given by Mills College in 2001 on Non-Fiction Creative Writing

A quick reading from my novel "Gunner Star". Music is by Hans Zimmer from the Black Rain soundtrack.

just some things that happen in my head when I write songs....

Writing

#6 of 10 in the LiveVideo Offensive - 2

Poetry inspired by stories in the news, if inspired really should be used in this sense.

This example is mild, compared to others viewed from the mind of the victim, or even the perpetrator. As I said,   more...too emotionally draining.  less

Just another night without sleep...

A video better explaining what the group is about. Welcome video to A Writer's World group.

Inspired, in part, by LemKuiper's composition, "For You".


For You
Copyright 2007
Ken Gierke

My bond with my father, gone 13 years now.