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Tear Down the Wall!

Dusk Treader

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since 1999-06-18

Posts 1187
St. Paul, MN

0 posted 2002-01-07 09:43 PM

I need help, and I'm hoping you wonderful poets and writers out there can help me. I just cannot write lately, a few poems have passed my pen, but I can't write a story for the life of me. I can't breathe live into one character, scene or plot. It's all stale and lifeless. Can someone give me an idea to write about... Give me a scene, a character, an idea or some bone to divine a future from...

My thanks in advance to all who try and help me break this mental block.

"A hard, cold wisom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil" - Robert Heinlein

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

1 posted 2002-01-07 09:55 PM

Here is the scenerio:

He sits at his computer(or typewriter). The screen (or paper) is blank. He hears children outside. He hears music somewhere in his apartment building. He gets up, walks to the window. Goes back to try and write. He remembers the last time he COULD write.. that rainy night....

Kethry
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-07-29

Posts 9082
Victoria Australia

2 posted 2002-01-08 05:44 AM

In a dark cavern at the end of the world, the people cower in fear waiting for the end or a new beginning. Sunlight gleams weakly down but it is sunlight without strength, from now on the strength will have to come from the people. They look to the sky crawling on their hands and knees, shield they eyes from the sun's glare and...

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown