Hi.

So apparently, even though the rest of us normal humans go around thinking normal things like: "Gee, wonder if I should go buy

some new vegetables, this stuff in the fridge is rotten..."

Philosophers run around thinking: "What if none of this is real?

How do I know I'm not…

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Okay. So it turns out I'm writing a trilogy.

I wrote a novel. I was so happy with it. It had three parts and lots of action and likable characters and a nice concept. Then it decided to become a brat. After I spent all my time nursing it, making it presentable, I leave it alone for a second and then I come back and all of a sudden it's making demands.



-Novel-"Hey, Aleya, I was just thinking... since I'm a three part novel... why don't you flesh things out a bit and make me into… Continue

I'm not a poet or anything but since the first went over well I decided to put up this second one as well. I wrote it a couple years back within a writing workshop that I assisted after Hurricane Dean. Had some help with it but I quite like the outcome:



Instinct A slow breath brushes the landscape

making animals and vegetation quiver

through the sixth sense we humans lack.

Nature knows what the village doesn’t;

a storm is approaching.



The… Continue

[Just found this and thought it would be a shame to lose it when I move. It really speaks to the whole writing process and how an idea gets messed up as you try to express it and it's always at its best in your head.]





Words



There are no words to express

The things inside my head

Perhaps this pen’s point’s too fine

Perhaps there’s too much on my mind…



Out there I see a world of wonder

These shutters capture as they… Continue