Creative Busyness

Writing

I used to make a joke that my parents gave so much creativity to my older sister, who turned out to become a writer, that I got just a enough to allow me to be a translator and write well, but without actually creating the stories.
In this blog I’m trying to change this and make my creativity grow.

  • Weekly Writing Challenge: Snapshots of Gold and Silver

    Straight lines. A few horizontal, most vertical. Some cutting the landscape diagonally, but always up, reaching for the sky. They are brown or grey. Occasionally disrupted by a fighting leave, trying to hold tight in spite of the wind. But today there is no wind. And the sky today is blue. If you look really,… Read more

  • Daily Post Challenge: Haiku, entry #5

    This week’s daily post writing challenge is to post a Haiku for each day of the week, until Friday. I made it! Here’s my fifth and last one. sandy beach, warm sun inviting us to relax, life can’t be better Read more

  • Daily Post Challenge: Haiku, entry #4

    This week’s daily post writing challenge is to post a Haiku for each day of the week, until Friday. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make them all, but I’ll try. Here’s my fourth one. when the sun sets down golden takes over the sky breath taking beauty Read more

  • Daily Post Challenge: Haiku, entry #3

    This week’s daily post writing challenge is to post a Haiku for each day of the week, until Friday. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make them all, but I’ll try. Here’s my third one. benches on a trail inviting meditation feeling well at peace Read more

  • Daily Post Challenge: Haiku, entry #2

    This week’s daily post writing challenge is to post a Haiku for each day of the week, until Friday. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make them all, but I’ll try. Here’s my second one. sad eyes on big face walking slowly towards me massive elephant Read more

  • Daily Post Challenge: Haiku, entry #1

    This week’s daily post writing challenge is to post a Haiku for each day of the week, until Friday. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to make them all, but I’ll try. Here’s my first one. big mountain over us it’s always there day and night watching us with love Read more

  • Weekly Writing Challenge: Dear Abby

    Dear Abby, I’m 37 years old and I’m aware that I have a great friends, wonderful nephews I babysit sometimes, an awesome job on a great company. A good life, most would say. But somehow sometimes I feel everything is just plain wrong in my life. My best friends are irritating and do everything wrong,… Read more

  • Weekly Writing Challenge: Blue gecko!

    With this week’s challenge, I just realized I’m not too much of a things person. I do have a hard time throwing stuff away, but I guess it’s more because I always think they could be useful someday, rather than for being attached to them. But I did find an item I like very much.… Read more

  • The sound of the bacurau

    From ages 5 to 27 I lived on a big house with a huge (and I mean HUGE) backyard, full of fruit trees, big rocks to climb, lawn space to run, a tiny soccer field even, and of course a big variety of wild life. The ones we saw more often were the animals that… Read more