the drawing of breath by YouInventedMe, literature
Literature
the drawing of breath
what makes the change the fang the slope of the jaw we are soft tamped & gentle uncalloused of hand . come circle the portrait an outfitted sorrow all my words leaving him un(a)dressed still he exhales like I do
How to Write a First Draft Without Perfectionism by illuminara, literature
Literature
How to Write a First Draft Without Perfectionism
Maybe you’ve heard that first drafts are supposed to suck, but what does that really mean? What does a sucky first draft look like? How do you allow yourself to suck? Why would you even want to allow yourself to write something that sucks in the first place?
Because otherwise, you’ll most likely be crippled by the writer’s arch nemesis: perfectionism.
Did you just cringe? We all experience it when we sit down to write, arrange everything just so, type a sentence or two (or a bit more if you’re lucky), and then it strikes—your inner editor. It smacks you across the face and demands that you fix that grammar mist
Please join me in thanking HugQueen (https://www.deviantart.com/hugqueen) for her care and dedication to the literature community :)
Thank you HugQueen (https://www.deviantart.com/hugqueen) :heart:
Mentions and a word of thanks! by Ghanstrom, journal
Mentions and a word of thanks!
Just over two months ago, I started posting poems here as a personal project. I love poetry and felt like putting my words out there for others to find and muse over at their leisure. I was pleasantly surprised by both the amount of traffic my page saw, and by the feedback and interaction I've received from those who've stopped by to read my work. I had considered writing a journal like this when my page hit several milestones for views, but decided against it because my goal isn't so much to harvest views as it is to share thought and reflection with others. However, I felt now would be a good time to express my thanks and excitement at
(2015) NAKTARRA'S RAD AS heCK ROUNDUP by Rose-Em, journal
(2015) NAKTARRA'S RAD AS heCK ROUNDUP
Rockin' it in at three years being actively a part of the deviantART community. And next year I'll be making an article saying I've been hanging around for four years. Then at one point I might even learn how to count past four and we'll figure out what comes after that together. It's been rather lovely watching people come and go over the past few years. I get to meet a lot of people from a whole lot of different countries and a whole lot of different backgrounds. Makes for an exciting world when everyone and everything is at my fingertips.
What at my plans for 2016? Well, for a personal goal I've picked up a copy of 1001 Movies You
My teenage years are narrowing to the tip of an arrow, and I'm not sure who they are getting ready to pierce. I wonder if it's me? Soon I will be 19. The year after, I will be the adult who has no more excuses. And I look at myself, burying myself under teas and coffees and Korean dramas and blanket-burritos, and I wonder how the heck every other adult I see did it. Growing up feels like decomposing. I already feel like a shell of what I used to be, and forgive me for being an extremist in saying I have fed parts of myself as fodder to the machine of capitalism. The cute little quirks I had are gone. I no longer smile easily. I had someone na
Holidays, DDs, and White Feature by spoems, journal
Holidays, DDs, and White Feature
For me, the holidays are always a time to reflect on the state of life and things. I look on this past year, and in spite of whatever happenstance I might consider as negative, such as health issues or the general and seemingly unending malaise of the world, I am forced to conclude that it was, in fact, as good a year as I could want. As joy often goes underreported, I’m here to say that good things did and do happen. And they will continue to happen.
In the realm of DA, I received a DD feature on my poem Pertrichor http://spoems.deviantart.com/art/Petrichor-469483593 , thanks to LiliWrites (https://www.deviantart.com/liliwrites) . Considering the recent changes to the
in the dreary briar, along western fields
our eyes beheld a bright canopy
of wild stars
and all the boroughs we imagined therein
were burning in the light--
how could they not
when everything is fire, heaving
against the black backdrop of the universe
crawling up the curled, charred paper?
and some say I am the unspoken regret
of never telling you, of always telling you
but I will sit back and watch
walls fall hungry into pastel weeps
those avocado green, leaded pools
with eyes uncovered, most afraid