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Poetry Day: Followers of Identity

(I don’t really know what prompted this one.  It deals with people who transform themselves into others.  They don’t create their own identity, but try to turn into a person they idolize.  It can be physical and psychological.  I’ve seen … Continue reading

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Questions 3: Your Author Identity

To be an author, you need to have some understanding of yourself.  Even on the unconscious level, you need to be sure of who you are in order to put pen to paper and create.  This requires creating an author … Continue reading

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7 Tips to Maintaining Your Sense of Self

One of the toughest parts about existing is establishing and maintaining your identity.  We look for things that we can point out and say ‘this is me’.  It gets even more complicated when you add in the desire to stand … Continue reading

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7 Tips to Being the Author You Were Meant to Be

It’s difficult to be an author and carve out your own identity.  There are industry standards, armies of gatekeepers, lengthy histories of each genre, and the constantly gnawing self-doubt.  A negative opinion on our style can hit harder than 100 … Continue reading

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Searching for Identity in the Shattered States

Lloyd-  Wasn’t the author supposed to write about this? Cassidy-  I guess he felt we should talk . . . identity.  Seems he realized during the final edits that the two of us do a little identity seeking throughout the … Continue reading

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Waking Up Lost

Eyes opening as slits In a skin I barely know Yet I see it every day The sensations are wrong Nerves misfiring Causing phantom touches Motivation is lacking Though I still want to start the day A voice says it’s … Continue reading

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Author Life: Find Your Style and Own It!

The theme for this week is ‘Author Life’, which I’m guessing I wrote up while I was exhausting or a little buzzed.  I figure part of the challenge here is to figure out what I was talking about.  Anyway, there … Continue reading

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Dual Nature

Born of pain Raised by fire Now I live A life of opposites Heart of a hero Craving To save all others Soul of a demon Thirsting For the blood of all Hell races through my veins While heaven rules … Continue reading

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