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My hands are tight.

Six fingers wrapped around,

the other four are twisted.

They all cling to what they can

whispering a silent prayer in their strength

Closer,

each second closer.

My eyes dart from the blazing emerald,

and all its false security, to

the empty space just beyond it.

Cross the line,

into the ring.

There are no rules in this fight.

There is no guarantee to life.

My stomach drops, and

with it every thought of safety.

A leap of faith,

jumping into a sea of

unknown possibilities.

A million and one seconds

separate the shores of safety.

Keep going,

keep pushing forward.

Hesitate and death

becomes imminent,

sure to follow you 

right to the grave.

That little infinity,

that pocket of time,

the one that didn’t seem

to end, is over.

I’m in the clear,

yeah right,

because here comes

another blazing

emerald green

The Grand Illusion: Arrival at Versailles, 1682 We are in the month of May in the year 1682, a moment of absolute historical rupture. Your physical presence is crossing for the first time the threshold of those massive entrance gates, decorated with a thick layer of gold leaf, of the gigantic complex called Versailles. Your field of vision is immediately occupied by a monumental building front,…

Picture courtesy of Google.com I have studied numerous characters in books and in real life, worked myself through psychology studies, and added respective education to my portfolio, partially for my career, and partially because I wanted to make sure my flawed characters were flawed the right way. What do I mean by that? Even mental health problems often show certain patterns, and I would like…

5 Ways A Timeline Helps You Write Your Novel – Written By M. L. Davis

M. L. Davis provides us with an excellent article about how a timeline helps us write our novel. We can find the post published on the ‘Uninspired Writers’ blog. Thank you, M. L. Davis

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Some writers are plotters. Others are pantsers. There’s no right way to do it. There are pros and cons to plotting, and it’s up to you to decide…

(GUYS IF SOMEONE COULD MAKE THIS A FIC I WOULD HONESTLY CRY)

imagine both enjolras and grantaire are graffiti artists.

grantaire does legal, paid stuff. he gets hired to paint amazing murals on the sides of aquariums and other buildings. his work as absolutely fantastic, and he’s quite famous for it.

enjolras does the illegal kind of graffiti. the kind of graffiti with strong political messages that appear overnight, signed with a simple “rousseau” in red spray paint,

all is fine and dandy until one day, grantaire checks on one of his older murals, and there’s a distinguishable “rousseau” on the corner, and a red X over a man and a woman holding hands. below it reads “DOWN WITH HETERONORMATIVITY” 

needless to say, grantaire is fuming.

he stakes out the location for two days, never leaving (and if so, he has to keep it in vantage point). the guy has to come back some time, right? and he does.

oh, he does.

wielding more red spray paint, he begins to paint lines under his tag, using a flashlight like a fucking idiot. R is about to pounce but then the flashlight shines in the man’s face - and fuck, he’s hot.