This is my latest poem. The idea for it came to me about a couple of weeks ago and it has been teasing me ever since. Today I was finally able to get it out and give it a form I was happy enough with. Here it is: I love you most when … […]
Yesterday, I read the poem I always knew by Rod McKuen. According to his website, it’s one of his few unpublished poems. I liked it. By the time I finished the second verse, I already had an idea for a poem of my own. Mine had a completely different message though! I always knew […]
Yesterday I spent a good amount of time working on my latest piece of flash fiction. I struggled with it a lot. Something didn’t seem to flow the way I wanted it to. Anyway, long story short, it took me several hours to get to the point where I felt comfortable enough to post it […]
If you’re going to fail, then fail hard and fast! That’s a bloody good piece of advice that I followed thoroughly for my fifth flash fiction challenge. The challenge was to come up with a 1,000 word piece of fiction that had the following three things in it: a talisman, a comic book, and a […]
I had a flash fiction piece due today and I failed to finish it. This is my second failure as far as this weekly challenge goes and I have to say that I’m a little disappointed. I love writing but my mind is all over the place. I write whatever strikes my fancy at any […]
I read something beautiful today in Ray Bradbury’s Zen in the Art of Writing. […] when a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry. -Ray Bradbury Give any man a chance to talk about his dreams, about his passion. Watch him sputter for the first few minutes like a […]
I can’t believe this! It finally happened: my prompt for this week’s flash fiction challenge is actually forcing me to think X-rated thoughts. Is it me or did it get hot in here? For this week, I’m supposed to come up with a story that has three things in it: a talisman, a lost comic […]
I’m reading Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury. It’s an excellent book – a collection of essays on the art and joy of writing. At one point, Mr. Bradbury talks about the stories you write while trying to imitate your favorite authors versus the stories you write in your own voice. There’s […]
You already know that I cheated on my last flash fiction challenge. I couldn’t get it done on time so I posted something else on the page where my story was supposed to be. I’m still not done with it, but, at the pace I’m going, it’s probably going to be a while before the […]
I’m cheating today. The deadline for my flash fiction challenge is just minutes away and my piece is not done yet. So, I’ll post a link to this page but don’t expect to find anything good to read yet. By tomorrow at noon, I’ll have something about James Bond meeting Twilight. Until then, I’ll write […]
Ada Ireland is a pen name I came up with for myself. Unashamed Writing is a name I came up with for my blog.
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