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Why I Write
On Monday I did something very stupid. I say this not with pride, not with shame, but with deep regret. I decided to take the day off from writing. The problem with me is that I wake up early. On … Continue reading
Jump Run Freeze
While going through my old notebooks last night, I came across the following. List Of Writing Tips — 5/5/03 1) Write every day. 2) Observe and listen. 3) Employ all senses. 4) Use strong verbs. 5) Detail! 6) A specific … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged art, author, birds, book, books, characters, creative writing, diary, dreams, emotion, feelings, fiction, happy, heart, ideas, lessons, library, life, literature, love, memories, nature, novel, people, poetry, reading, relationship, run, Stephen King, story, survival, thoughts, truth, words, work, write, writer, writing, writing tips
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It’s Bad Enough
Have you ever woken up early one morning at dawn and quite unexpectedly noticed the twilight? Or some other day quite unexpectedly you saw a sunset, a starry sky, a scenery or the horizon, so beautiful, so exquisite that a … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Amazon, Amazon UK, childhood, children, civil war, death, disease, economic crisis, famine, father, fear, foreclosure, hard times, high school, illness, internet, job, job search, Lebanon, life, memories, Middle East, Montreal, mother, news, night, parent, parents, responsibility, sky, stability, stars, sun, survival, teenager, twilight, unemployment, worry, youth
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Fear Doesn’t Listen To Reason
“Mummy! Mummy!” Dalia heard a scream. Her clothes torn and covered with dust, a little girl stood in the middle of some kind of road, debris all around her. The little girl was screaming at the top of her voice. … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged AlJazeerah, Amazon, author, Bahrain, BBC, Beirut, bombing, book, cell phone, chichikir, child, civil war, CNN, coffee, debris, dream, Dubai, Egypt, experience, explosion, fear, friendship, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, mobile, mother, pain, phone, reason, self published, survival, Syria, The Lost I, UAE, war, yemen
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Who Would Find Their Bodies?
“It’s coming,” she said and there was the whizzing again as if the bomb was passing lower between the buildings; and then there was the deafening explosion. Then another, and yet another. This time the bombs were falling at a … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Air Force, Amazon, Arab world, army, Bahrain, Beirut, bodies, bombing, book, border, building, burn, chichikir, civil war, civilians, dead, earthquake, Egypt, explosion, ground, gunmen, Lebanon, Libya, Middle East, militias, nuclear, OWN, rebels, refugees, shelter, story, survival, Syria, The Lost I, Tunisia, USA, war, yemen
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