Thank you brother! I thought I'd share something else with the family today... This one I wrote well over a decade ago, & it's probably still one of my better ramblings, or maybe just the one I personally like the best... Lemme know whatcha think! :)
Kryn

Inside...
The machine rolls on, Relentless,
Cold & dark, stifling all senses.
Inside...
Blood turned Oil,
Flesh turned Steel,
Soul turned Spark.
Electric Life of Death Walking.
Inside...
Can we stop the wheel's turning?
Can we keep the world from burning?
The answer lies
Inside...

Outside...
From Leaf to Bark to Root to Soil,
Water of Life from Freeze to Boil.
Outside...
Plant turned Animal,
Animal turned Soil,
Soil turned Plant.
Chaotic Life of Spirit Waking.
Outside...
Can we keep the cycle going?
Can we keep the waters flowing?
The answer lies
Outside...

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You should read the works of Lord Dunsany, I think you would like them. I've only poked throught The King of Elfland's Daughter, but it was beautiful. He is one of those terribly unknown authors that authors still know about and very few readers. It's a conspiracy I tell you!
Another author little known these days, though Bram Stoker pretty much ripped him off if you ask me, is J. Sheridan LeFanu.

Both of these guys wrote collections of shorts stories, though LeFanu tended to Gothic and horror only, while Dunsany went all over the place, apparently. I only knew about him as a reference for source material in Exalted, a White Wolf Roleplaying game. The first sections of their games have a list of books, films, etc to give you the feel of where they are coming from, and I have found some real gems there. That's how I heard of LeFanu' s Carmilla and The Monk by Mathew Lewis, one of the best gothic Novels ever.

I am writing, (well i was, seem to be stalled after about 13000 words, I WILL get back to it) my first novel, and part of it deals with Faeries. If anyone would like to share any specific books that I might reference or has some stories kicking around, let's talk. I think I am going to make a series out of this, and there may be room for multiple writers, or a collection of works.

I also have my website started www.mymusetellslies.com and would like input on how it looks and such. I plan on having a writing section soon, so you can get an idea of what I am about. I have been toying with the idea of doing a serial or two while I work on the novel, as well as a comic.

Wow, tangent there I went. MIght as well keep going.

The single best book, I really suggest you get an audio version of it, not the actual book, I have ever encountered about writing that I actually liked, finished and applied was Stephen King's On Writing. I credit it with me getting 12000 words done in 2 weeks ( I have written the same story for years and never had anywhere close to 12000 words, always did little blurbs) and I curse myself for not taking his advice about staying on track by NOT letting people read it before the first draft is done. The book is funny, informative and real. Read by the Dude himself. Oh, by the way, I have never read any of his books, so if you don't like his work or you do, I don't think it even matters.

Ok, I have hijacked this thread enough, you got me excited with seeing people write. i love writing. I love seeing others do it. I am not gonna say that everyone is awesome at it, most are passable, some I cannot take at all. But I think literature is a dying craft, and that is not good. If all we ever do is read non-fiction, our dreams become stale. Television and movies, even music cannot replace the power and magic(k) of a good piece of fantasy.

Hey, I just had an idea, well maybe two.

Would people be interested in:
1. Starting another tribe called something like Rainbow Writing for the literary workers amongst us. OR
2. Keeping a continual thread going involving writing and such, perhaps sharing, perhaps collaborating.

The thread idea would be simple, just use people already here, but the group idea would be more organized, maybe do both?

I know I said sharing your work before first draft is done is a no no, but short pieces don't take long, and people work differently. Vonnegut apparently worked out a page at a time, no drafts, just worked each bit till he couldn't work it anymore.

Oh, one thing I really, really, don't want to do is, the "I say a word and then you write a sentence about it and passalong game, or any variation of it. BLEH! They usually turn out stupid very quick. BLEH!

As for paragraph passing, that can work ok, but usually the best stuff is Variations on a theme, such as Let's write a scifi story, I write the first section and you write the next, but must use at least one of the previous characters, as in Arabian Nights.

I don't actually think most of this stuff makes anybody a better writer, and that is the darn tootin truth. Sorry, I agree with Stephen King that the only things that works are writing a lot, and reading a lot. What this interchange can and hopefully does do is make people get off their butts. I''m not so worried about critque as i would like to see myself and other young talents get out there and get cracking in the art world.

If you read this far, you rock. i've been on quite a roll.

Conclusion: Earthy Fun is awesome, but I am at heart a Gatherer of People and Ideas, maybe even Souls. The urge to Do Great Things, and Make Great Works burns rather fiercely in me and I am glad to have this place that doesn't judge me and perhaps even likes me. I am an attention grabber, freely admitted, but I am sincere in my desire to push independent art in the United States (I speak for them for they are my home) to hold itself in High Regard and not take the excuse of. "I'm Indy, so I can suck a bit, that makes me even more Indy and gets me clout on the street." As my good friend Josh says, "Screw that Noise!" D.I.Y. Do or Die, Damn the Man. but Have a Plan. Organize to get Power to the People and stop being a complacent peon. "I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."- Martin Luther King Jr.

Over and out
AJ Mars aka Anthony aka ReblCommander aka Chicken aka The Fanz aka Rising Buffalo