The Most Awesome Book for a Writer- EVER

So a few weeks ago, I was in a shop in Marietta, OH called Simple Pleasures and I found this book called 642 Things to Write About.  I immediately knew I had to own this book and holy Edgar Allen, am I glad I bought it.  (Okay, technically my Mom bought it for me as a *very* late birthday present, but that is neither here nor there.)

These prompts were complied by the The San Francisco Writers' Grotto in a measly 24 hours (Po Bronson thought it would take the 35 members maybe a month to come up with that many.)  They include the simple "your favorite jeans", the thought provoking "A conversation you regret never having", and the silly "A hopelessly messy  person and an obsessively neat person become roommates" and many more.  As I stood in the shop reading them with my Mom, we were in stitches.  And oh the story possibilities.
This book has been a great way to help me find my creativity again.  I just flip through the book until I find something that makes my Muse say, "Hold on!  I can so work with that.".  I've worked on a few the prompts thus far and who knows, you might see polished versions on here eventually.

A Poem: Time

A Bit of Babble:
While writing this poem I realized that the main event in this poem and the one I posted before happen in January of different years.  This is why I have never figured out if I have seasonal depression or if I get depressed because all the horrible things seem to always happen in the winter.  These minuscule differences are what keep me up at night.

The Poem:

A Poem: For a Former So-Called Friend

The Explanation:
This poem was written about an event that happened during the beginning of January of my senior year in high school.  There are a few mistakes, but I got tired of refilming so yeah...
This poem is a huge accomplishment for me.  I've been trying to write about this event for two years and now that its finally in the world, hopefully, I can start to heal.
Enjoy and Thank You.

The Video:

American Sentences

The first writing  exercise in Ordinary Genius is entitled "American Sentences".  American sentence is a poetic form created by a man named Allen Ginsberg who, basically, believed in the mantra "condense, condense, condense", but felt that the haiku format did not work as well in English as it did in Japanese.  And thus the American sentence was born: one sentence, seventeen syllables.
Here are a few I came up with:

• We looked down on skyscrapers and suddenly the world seemed minuscule.
• She lusted to travel to new exotic cities she had read about.
• His staccato kisses filled her with wicked desire, always.
• The lights of twinkling galaxies shined below in celestial glory.
• Trickling lines of nostalgic melody transport to a gilded past.

Welcome!

Hallo!  This is my new blog.  If you were looking for updates on my life, click here.  I decided to switch urls on these blogs to make that one more personal and indicate that this is my brand spanking new writing blog.
Why a writing blog you ask?  Well, last spring I took a Creative Writing class and I had four textbooks: poetry, play writing, fiction, and creative nonfiction.  Two of these books were used a little and the other two not at all, but they were cheap ($16 a piece is cheap compared to the ridiculous prices of most textbooks) so I decided to keep them and work on my own rather than selling them back to the bookstore.
And now here we are, a month and a half shy of it being an entire year since I decided that and well, I haven't really done anything with them.  But this will soon be remedied.  I'm going to start by reading Kim Addonizio's Ordinary Genius; a book about writing poetry.  Throughout the book there are several exercises, and once I've finished them, I'll type them out here. (What?  I prefer writing things out with pencil and paper still, so what?)
I've been in a funk lately; nothing has been inspiring me to write.  I've misplaced my Creative Mojo and I hope in doing this, and keeping myself accountable by writing here, I can find it again.  And hopefully you'll enjoy reading it along the way.