I haven’t been posting much on this blog lately because I started another web-based project. While researching that project, my vision for unashamedwriting.com (UW) has been getting progressively more clear. For the next several weeks, UW will stay my playground for my writing games. I love being able to post random bits of thoughts and […]
Don’t blame the fire By Ada Ireland Don’t blame the fire for getting hurt. It never moved an inch towards you. You were the one getting close to it, Adding more fuel to see How bright you could make it. Then you laughed at the flames And jumped right in, Into a crazy dance […]
Not old enough yet By Ada Ireland I feel like the sky is falling and, Although I’m old enough to know that someday, After the dust settles, I’ll see another sky, I’m not old enough yet to know How not to be heartbroken about this one.
I’m reading Elements of Wit by Benjamin Errett. It’s a very interesting book with some surprising stories in it. I’ll write a longer blog post about it by the end of the week. In the meantime, here is something that most writers will appreciate: a witty dedication. “To my children, Helena and Theodore, without whose […]
A few days ago, I went on Souldier Girl’s blog and came across this quote: “I don’t write poetry. I write you.” I loved it and felt inspired to write a poem, only … I couldn’t. I had too many ideas going through my mind and couldn’t make them fit together. I struggled with it […]
I wrote the story behind I don’t write poetry here. What was supposed to be a simple poem turned into a few days long struggle whose end result I trashed and then changed my mind about it. Here are those rescued verses. I don’t write poetry By Ada Ireland I don’t write poetry … […]
Venting By Ada Ireland I started writing a poem And it turned into pretentious junk. Sometimes I try to embellish my feelings, Sometimes I try to sound smart. (That’s when my writing basically sucks.) So I trashed it … That useless piece of fake writing that it was. I’m starting over now. In the […]
I took a break from writing. It wasn’t planned. It just happened. I went to my home country for five weeks and, while there, I didn’t write anything. Even though I came back from vacation two weeks ago, I only felt ready to get back to writing today. All in all, I haven’t written anything […]
Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules of Writing is exactly 1,055 words long. I know that because I’ve just finished copying it into a Word document. It took me about thirty minutes. I first heard about it from a writer friend. I also read about it in Stephen King’s On Writing so I decided to buy it. […]
I tried my hand at a different style with my last few poems and it showed. They were confusing and bland. Here is something straightforward. I managed to sneak a couple of figures of speech in there, but the end result is still close to my raw, bare bones voice. I love you By […]
Ada Ireland is a pen name I came up with for myself. Unashamed Writing is a name I came up with for my blog.
The pen name is fake. The writing on this blog is real ... as close to real and truthful as I can get it to be. Read More