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Author has written 47 stories for Love, Mythology, Life, Romance, Horror, Nature, War, Fantasy, Friendship, and Humor. Hello. I'm a college senior studying life. I write poetry, unfinished fiction, and fanfiction that you can find over here. Thanks for reading my stuff. I feel I should let you know that you will make my week if you review anything. And you will get cupcakes and hugs and good fortune will shower upon you. And also review replies and returned reviews. But of course those wouldn't matter; I know everyone really reviews for the cupcakes. :) tips, from a master: You ask whether your verses are any good. You ask me. You have asked others before this. You send them to magazines. You compare them with other poems, and you are upset when certain editors reject your work. Now (since you have said you want my advice) I beg you to stop doing that sort of thing. You are looking outside, and that is what you should most avoid right now. No one can advise or help you - no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. And if this answer rings out in assent, if you meet this solemn question with a strong, simple "I must," then build your life in accordance with this necessity; your whole life, even into its humblest and most indifferent hour, must become a sign and witness to this impulse. Then come close to Nature. Then, as if no one had ever tried before, try to say what you see and feel and love and lose. Don't write love poems; avoid those forms that are too facile and ordinary: they are the hardest to work with, and it takes great, fully ripened power to create something individual where good, even glorious, traditions exist in abundance. So rescue yourself from these general themes and write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty - describe all these with heartfelt, silent, humble sincerity and, when you express yourself, use the Things around you, the images from your dreams, and the objects that you remember. If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is not poverty and no poor, indifferent place. And even if you found yourself in some prison, whose walls let in none of the world's sounds - wouldn't you still have your childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories? Turn your attentions to it. Try to raise up the sunken feelings of this enormous past; your personality will grow stronger, your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes by, far in the distance. - And if out of this turning-within, out of this immersion in your own world, poems come, then you will not think of asking anyone whether they are good or not. Nor will you try to interest magazines in these works: for you will see them as your dear natural possession, a piece of your life, a voice from it. A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it. So, dear Sir, I can't give you any advice but this: to go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept that answer, just as it is given to you, without trying to interpret it. Perhaps you will discover that you are called to be an artist. Then take the destiny upon yourself, and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what reward might come from outside. For the creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted. But after this descent into yourself and into your solitude, perhaps you will have to renounce becoming a poet (if, as I have said, one feels one could live without writing, then one shouldn't write at all). Nevertheless, even then, this self-searching that I as of you will not have been for nothing. Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to question that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer. --Rainer Maria Rilke, from "Letters to a Young Poet," Letter One if you're in the mood for... my favorites, in no particular order: something short: something long: love: the depths of despair: lust: the one who doesn't love you back: whimsical nonsense: | |||||||||||
1. whisper reviewsi like to sleep in a bed full of books; the smell, the papercuts, the off chance of knowledge gained.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Poetry/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 544 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 4-9-09 - Published: 4-9-092. conversation, evening reviewssing to me, i say, wishing, as always, to fracture time into this one moment when i can be enough.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Spiritual - Chapters: 1 - Words: 922 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-8-08 - Published: 12-8-083. endymion reviewsthe night is never long enough. the dawn beckons. but please--stay with me.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 381 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 4-5-08 - Published: 4-5-084. lust, caution reviewsit's the morning after, and he can't pull himself away. oneshot.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 522 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 2-10-08 - Published: 2-10-085. paper voices reviewssometimes, the ache just grows and grows until all you can do is touch pen to paper and let it spill out.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 324 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-2-07 - Published: 11-2-076. love song reviewsfascination is distraction, and infatuation in the form of you is so easy to play with for a little while.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 294 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-2-07 - Published: 11-2-077. once upon a time reviewsa surreal fairy tale between a girl who thinks everything has to end someday and a boy who doesn't.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Fantasy/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,510 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 11-2-07 - Published: 11-2-078. drowning reviewsyou're so deep underwater that you can't even see hints of the sky.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 420 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 11-2-07 - Published: 11-2-079. interview reviewsyou're the applicant, i'm the employer. can you offer what i want? we'll see. a bit fluffy.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Poetry - Chapters: 1 - Words: 147 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0710. suicide note reviewsbecause, sometimes, it all gets to be too much. entirely fictional.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 157 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0711. retail therapy reviewsthe dangers of working in a mall.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 25 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0712. iridia reviewsif you would: please color my world.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 370 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0713. blasphemy reviewsif i died, i'd rather not be remembered for being perfect, because i'm not. i'd rather be remembered for my humanity.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0714. sunriseprom poem no. 2, or, why prom is not what it's cracked up to be.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 241 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0715. circular logic and an apology reviewsthe dangers of taking your favorite gay boyfriend to prom. prom poem no. 1.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 205 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0716. streetlight reviewsnighttime is when the denizens of the dark come out to play.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 382 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0717. le jardin reviewswhat pretty flowers you have around your neck, they say, but you haven't had a garden for such a long time. inspired by eire rain's equinox.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: T - English - Angst/Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 341 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0718. castles and crumpets reviewsbecause of course the world revolves around a spoiled, silly princess who lives in a glass castle.Complete - Humor - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 333 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0719. mondays and maybes reviewswanderings of a mind in unrequited love.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 339 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0720. fences reviewsthere will always be invisible barriers between you and i.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 197 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0721. five am reviewsthe realization you're in love with your best friend is when you start cursing your existence. almost.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Angst/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 161 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0722. in transit reviewsbecause if you think about it, life is just searching to find that one place you belong.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 258 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0723. symphony reviewsthere is always one summer and one guy who 'scuks' that you'll remember for the rest of your life.Complete - Friendship - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 436 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0724. heart of darkness reviewsi want to see beauty--raw, horrid beauty that is too hard to be touched. inspired by conrad's heart of darkness.Complete - Fantasy - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 140 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0725. danse macabre reviewshades and persephone have a little chat about children in the midst of war. inspired by vonnegut's slaughterhousefive.Complete - War - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Supernatural - Chapters: 1 - Words: 243 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0726. on the nature of a storm reviewsthat feeling you get when the world goes black and rain lashes at your windowpane.Complete - Nature - Fiction Rated: K - English - General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 123 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0727. lovers reviewsit's a little bit painful when you realize the one for you's already met the one for him.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 235 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0728. hymne au soleil reviewsthe part where you are saturated with light is the part where you are most in love.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 222 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0729. sing to me reviewsa wideeyed innocent's wish for love.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 206 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0730. tonight reviewssometimes it's what he doesn't say that makes you pick up that glass of wine and follow him out the door.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 156 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0731. today reviewssometimes, it's just one of those days.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 154 - Reviews: 2 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0732. believe reviewsall the things that make you want to.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 91 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0733. april showers reviewsi'm only ever happy when it rains.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0734. freefallthat breathless feeling of being on the edge? that's love.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/General - Chapters: 1 - Words: 23 - Reviews: 0 - Updated: 10-20-07 - Published: 10-20-0735. sonata reviewsa musical interlude in sonata form.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 633 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-17-05 - Published: 12-17-0536. alarm clock reviewswaffles about the frustration of the clueless, occupied opposite sex. oneshot.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 378 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-05 - Published: 12-17-0537. tango reviewslate at night, in the smoky darkness of a club, and suddenly you're entranced.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 742 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-17-05 - Published: 12-17-0538. angels reviewswhat people think of you and what you are usually isn't the same, especially if it involves white wings and insane asylums. oneshot.Complete - Horror - Fiction Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 443 - Reviews: 3 - Updated: 12-17-05 - Published: 12-17-0539. the night of the falling stars reviewsfairytale of love, stars, and voiceless wonder.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 319 - Reviews: 1 - Updated: 12-17-05 - Published: 12-17-0540. carousel reviewsround and round we go, and where we stop, well, that's up to you. inspired by a dream.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 353 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 12-17-05 - Published: 12-17-0541. Reflections Under a Silver Moon reviewsinspired by mooncakes. no, really. oneshot set during the chinese cultural revolution.Complete - Romance - Fiction Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 808 - Reviews: 10 - Updated: 9-23-04 - Published: 9-23-0442. a day in september reviewsfor those who died, and for those who lived, and for the humanity in all of us.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - Tragedy/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 513 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 9-11-04 - Published: 9-11-0443. goodbyes reviewsfor the one who keeps coming back.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 264 - Reviews: 9 - Updated: 9-5-04 - Published: 9-5-0444. poème reviewsmemories of a time when art and beauty and poetry existed for you and me.Complete - Life - Fiction Rated: K - English - General/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 300 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 3-11-04 - Published: 3-11-0445. stars reviewsbecause little boys and girls always remember the swingset where it all began.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 167 - Reviews: 6 - Updated: 3-11-04 - Published: 3-11-0446. Polyphemus vs the Ithacan Idiot reviewsthe poor, misunderstood cyclops polyphemus' pov on odysseus' visit to his island. written for my highschool freshman lit course.Complete - Mythology - Fiction Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 679 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-27-03 - Published: 7-27-0347. Sometimes I Dream reviewsonly keeping this up for archival purposes. it's a little bit of highschool crush angst.Complete - Love - Fiction Rated: K - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 106 - Reviews: 4 - Updated: 7-26-03 - Published: 7-26-03
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