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One Hour

By Gate Keeper | Posted: 14 May 2010

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I kinda just wrote this as an excersise, so it probably sucks and there are probably a lot of typos. I don't know writing has become so frustrating resently, I'm not sure what to do with myself so I just write random little tidbits. Anyway, here it is.

An hour. Such a small amount of time, and yet so much could be done with it. It could be used to love or to hate, to destroy or to create, to live or to die. And one hour a day? 365 hours a year. Two weeks. 15 days. So much time that so much could be done in. But what to do with it? What could this great power be used for? Solution: Writing. If I wrote just one hour every day, oh the wonders I could create! The lives I could live, the castles I could build, the dragons I could tame! And all I need for these wonders is some paper, a pencil, and my hour. My hour. One a day, more if I want, if I can, but never any less. And if it is less? Don't let it be! Write gibberish! The hour doesn't even have to be together, like the stars; always in the same sky but always apart. The point of this exercise, this faith, this religion? To write, and through it live. How many hours do I waste everyday, watching TV, surfing the web, sleeping, when I could be living! And not just my life. The life of all my characters, the adventures they experience, the hardships they bare, the bravery and love and knowledge they discover! I might not write well, but I write! And what I write is my creation, and now one else's! No one has the same thoughts, the same ideas, the same feelings as I do! No one else is quite as crazy as I am! Are two people ever truly alike? Never! For as I write, and as someone else writes, we write from two different minds, two different hearts. And all this in just one hour. One thread in the fabric of space and time. In that hour a star can be born, a star can die, a star can shine. I can shine! And through that shining, I shall be complete, and my writing will complete. All with my 2 weeks, my 15 days, my 365 hours. An hour. My hour.
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churchmouse
14 May 2010
Hi Gate Keeper. I would not worry about writing for an hour each day. If you discipline yourself to writing for a set time each day it will begin to feel like work and the fun will go out of it. Possibly better to stop watching TV and spend the time reading or walking or in conversation with someone, that way the stories will come and you won't care whether you spend five minutes or five hours writing them down. The downside to it (If you are still at school) is that you wont known what half of your classmates are talking about during break-time.
Nanoniet
15 May 2010
Well written. Can't wait for the follow up- One Minute!
TLParsons
21 May 2010
I voted for this piece because I feel this way alot of the time, I'm not 100 percent sure I agree with it all but I do think that whatever you think helps you should definatly embrace. My best ideas don't happen when I'm sat in front of a comupter typing away but are usually spontaneous. I can go for ages without even looking at my work because I got annoyed not being able to figure out how to move on, you can plan a story out from A - Z but sometimes you just get stuck making connections etc. I think I have finally found what works for me. I'm writing the fifth chapter of my novel and when I'm stuck I work on correcting previous chapters. Anyway I love how you put yourself into this piece and hope your writers block clears up soon, if writing is what you love, then never stop and never let people make you feel like you should.
Gate Keeper
25 May 2010
Thank you very much for all your comments ^.^ I really appreciate the feedback!! It's nice to know that someone cares
you"re welcome. don't doubt yourself. you are an excellent writer.
wolfy
jfergusson
26 May 2010
I liked this, and thought it was well written.  I often feel the same, that I have so much time available but I'm not doing anything productive with it!  Just keep writing your "random little tidbits!"
audreyhepburn
14 July 2010
Nice!!! Really nice!!!  Very powerful.  Don't doubt your power as a writer- you are an amazing one!

Audrey

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