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10-4-2012: Added categories. Minor curtailing of initial introductory message.
10-5-2012: Added "The Elements", a 6 part Haiku under poetry by request of Tasuke. Fixed poor grammar in "10-2-2012".
10-17-2012: Added "IC/DC" & "As a Result" to Educational Ramblings.
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Here is where I'll keep a small collection of works which I've authored, and will continue to author with time. I invite comments of all types, from constructive criticism to appreciative remarks.

I don't promise that these will be perfect, I don't promise that they'll be my best pieces of writing, or the best things you've ever read. Just that they are mine. My own. To start with, something which reflects my recent look on life, hidden in constant metaphor.

Categories: Where the writing belongs.

Rambling: Ramblings about my life, about society, about how I feel, etc. They don't really follow any pattern, they're just stuff that happens to come out of my head if I slam it against a wall enough times, spew it out, don't edit it at all and save it.

I feel completely alone, in a sea of monotone. All around me are smiling faces, haunting places, little graces that elude and do collude to delude me into believing the strangest of lies. The strongest of ties, ropes on my mind, words, thoughts, plots. Am I dreaming? Was I dreaming? Am I rhyming, or whining? The thing is, I don't know anymore. The beautiful two who did understand, one is dead and the other a visage trapped in bondage with the courage to carry my luggage, though savage an image he creates and portrays of the putrid and sickly world which I live...

Long since gone are the days of innocence, of which I would play and then be flayed, scarred underneath the surface, a bard made backless, bootless, and brainless from all of dream's little lies. It is cruel to be told you can do anything in a world which detests you should you do as such. To set children up and knock them down, are we clowns? Jesters long since left to fester, pestered by the actor of good intentions, poor execution?

My heart and I are silent.

Isn't that gallant.

At least there was Paris, though such a name gives me chills, for it drills into my mind abhorrent memories of pain I couldn't fix through the pane, though I wracked my brain I had to refrain from being profane towards the source of such selfish amenities. Yet now I find my heart remains dormant, though to be blunt it was months ago, perhaps... Silence is appropriate?

My family ably and awfully argued in a bawdy, blindly manner, tearing through fabrications of albeit blurry images of happy homely lovely life. What's left is pushing me back against a wall, I'm about to fall, yet when I reach out, only the air is there.

I am alone.

Yet I feel nothing.

Yet I trust in the end, I won't be alone.

...I hope at least, else the crows will have a feast.

Educational Rambling: Like rambling, except about my education, primarily where it concerns language arts and creative writing. Here you can get some insights into what I'm thinking, and learning at the present period of time if you really care about that kind of stuff.

Huh. Who knew grammar was so complex. Co-ordinating conjunctions, subordinating conjunctions... On top of this there's even formulas for sentence length on words, and advice given about the use of simple versus complex language. (Hint: Simple = Better 90% of the time). Bovine, versus cow, feline versus cat. Style, tone, voice, essay, rhetorical essay, ggyaaahhhh~

On the bright side, this is vastly improving my knowledge of literal pen to paper writing. Not the content so much, but how to make the surface more appealing. Yet the more I learn, the more I find it contradicts some of the basic tenants of role playing, such as interaction being priority numero uno. Alas. I don't have time to fully explain here.

No, this is not a pun on ACDC. IC is in an independent clause, DC is a dependent clause. DC's require IC's to function, whereas IC's can stand on their own.

IC: Spot ran down to the park.

DC: To get his ball.

The IC can stand on its own as a sentence. If you pulled it out of a paragraph and said it to someone, they would understand what you are saying completely. However, when I say "To get his ball", taken entirely out of context, nobody will understand what the heck I just said. However, using a comma instead of ending the sentence, you can combine a DC and an IC together.

IC/DC: Spot ran down to the park, to get his ball.

In fact, you don't even need the comma in that particular sentence.

IC/DC: Spot ran down to the park to get his ball.

Every time you read a sentence, take it out of context. If it fails to function on its own, combine it with another line. "Malaki stabbed an intruder in the stomach." Versus... "Falls down the stairs."

Decided to do some homework. Stumbled on this little gem from "They Say, I Say" on chapter eight that could help role players and writers alike, as it concerns sentence structure and how to make each sentence logically string to another.

Sentences must logically come together to form a coherent paragraph. However, there are a lot of sentences on RPG constructed like this.

"Spot is a good dog. He has fleas." <- What the hell does Spot being a good dog have anything to do with the fact that he has fleas? Combine the two sentences with a clause.

"Spot is a good dog, but he has fleas."
"Spot is a good dog, even though he has fleas."

It combines the two thoughts together as one thought, which makes more sense than what it was before.

Flash Fiction: Stories which are ultra short, which fit on 1-4 pages generally speaking.

None posted yet--working on one for WOTM though, which I'll likely post here AFTER this month's contest is done so as to avoid breaking the no spoiler rule.

Poetry: Generally speaking I'll stick to haikus, ABAB, and AABB formats. My knowledge of poetry tends to be rudimentary. I know the basics. Not much beyond that.

Fire, air, earth, water
Gently gliding and flying
My way homeward.

Red with intense love
Burning so passionately
Lighting my way home

Clear but powerful
Invisible and youthful
Never tiring wind

Ancient and wisest
Through all of life's woes and growth
To forevermore

Soft yet hard as rock
It flows through all existence
Binding all as one

Life is all or none
Passion and war, life and death
All silent in time

True Stories: Stories which actually happened to me. Some day I'll write them down, like the time a family member came at me with a lead pipe, when I was food poisoned intentionally, some of my more mentally unstable moments, etc. The list goes on.

None posted yet. May not be for a while, I have to pick the right ones to write about.

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Update (10-4-2012), added categories, reclassified 10-2-2012 as rambling, added some educational rambling which I'll probably expand on later.

[Tasuke]

We require more minerals in the form of haiku.

Construct additional pylons!

Pretty please? ._.

The line "Am I rhyming, or whining." seems to lack a question mark. o.o

Unless I'm missing something.

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@Tasuke: Ah. Yes. I must have missed that, but then, I didn't proofread it.

5-10-2012--"The Elements"

Haiku -- Classical/Contemporary rules 5:7:5, abstract concepts.

Fire, air, earth, water
Gently gliding and flying
My way homeward.

Red with intense love
Burning so passionately
Lighting my way home

Clear but powerful
Invisible and youthful
Never tiring wind

Ancient and wisest
Through all of life's woes and growth
To forevermore

Soft yet hard as rock
It flows through all existence
Binding all as one

Life is all or none
Passion and war, life and death
All silent in time

There you go, a whole set of Haiku.

[Flames]

I like. ^ ^

[Brovo]

10-17-2012: Added "IC/DC" & "As a Result" to Educational Ramblings. Will study more on sentence structure when I have the time/when my class gets there.