SPICY LIT NIGHT CAP! Word Play: Spiritual!

It's amazing what comes to people's mind when this word is tossed around: "Spiritual."

When I think of this word, it takes me back to going to church with family, and studying the bible more times and than I can count. At the time "spiritual" meant very little, but now it means more than going to church.

This word is sexy in a sense, that you engage in something that's very important to you. It says "I'm confident" and no one can break me down. It says "I'm secure in myself and I know myself."

In your storytelling define "spiritual" in your way.  How you describe, and portray it in your story doesn't have to be on a traditional level or anyone elses level. Take it and roll with it and use it in a creative sense, and remember to take it to the next level.

Remember; your way of being spiritual is your way and your way only.

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL!

If your a writer think how to take your storytelling to the next level.

Telling stories is an amazing gift that most have in them. However, it's how they take those stories to the next level that seperates one writer from the next.

Take the time to get to know your story, it's characters, and how you want your message to be received by the potential readers. When you do this, it enhances your thought process and allows you to be more creative in building your story from begining to end.

Today, take it to the next level and turn your story into a phenonmenal one.

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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SPICY LIT NIGHT CAP! Poetry Play: Harlem Wine!

HARLEM WINE BY: Countee Cullen

This is not water running here,
These thick rebellious streams
That hurtle flesh and bone past fear
Down alleyways of dreams

This is a wine that must flow on
Not caring how or where
So it has ways to flow upon
Where song is in the air.

So it can woo an artful flute
With loose elastic lips
Its measurements of joy compute
With blithe, ecstatic hips.

 






By: Cherries And Strawberries
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GETTING PHYSICAL FOR LITERARY INSPIRATION!

That's right let's get physical for literary inspiration!

Take a walk, ride a bike, or a hike to gain inspiration for your next novel. Doing this will not only get you that much needed workout, but it will get you out of the house and get back to nature.

Nature inspires us in so many ways with beauty, sounds, and alot of things to look at!

Today, take time to get a much a needed workout and get inspired by the natural beauty that nature has to offer. It can definitely inspire your next story in more ways than you can imagine.

By: Cherries And Strawberries
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SPICY LIT NIGHT CAP! Poetry Play: Touch!

TOUCH BY: Octavio Paz

My hands
Open the curtains of your being
Clothe you in a further nudity
Uncover the bodies of your body
My hands
Invent another body for your body
 

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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GETTING TO THE POINT!

Taking your storytelling just got better as you immerse and wrap yourself up in what you want your message to be. Your message is from within and you are the messenger, so put some fire in your lit step and get to the point.

Getting to the point, with your storytelling and not waisting time is something that most writers fight. Many are procrastinaters as they start and then stop. Again please get to the point!

Don't let "your point" fall back and miss out on the joys of having your message put out so your readers can enjoy your story.  It's time to put it in high gear and "get to the point."

By. Cherries and Strawberries
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SPICY LIT NIGHT CAP! Poetry Play: A Thing Of Beauty!

A THING OF BEAUTY BY: John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleepFull of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Therefore, on every morrow, are we wreathing
A flowery band to bind us to the earth,
Spite of despondence, of the inhuman dearth
Of noble natures, of the gloomy days,
Of all the unhealthy and o'er-darkened ways
Made for our searching: yes, in spite of all,
Some shape of beauty moves away the pall
From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon,
Trees old, and young, sprouting a shady boon
For simple sheep; and such are daffodils
With the green world they live in; and clear rills
That for themselves a cooling covert make
'Gainst the hot season; the mid-forest brake,
Rich with a sprinkling of fair musk-rose blooms:
And such too is the grandeur of the dooms
We have imagined for the mighty dead;
All lovely tales that we have heard or read:
An endless fountain of immortal drink,
Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink.

Nor do we merely feel these essences
For one short hour; no, even as the trees
That whisper round a temple become soon
Dear as the temple's self, so does the moon,
The passion poesy, glories infinite,
Haunt us till they become a cheering light
Unto our souls, and bound to us so fast
That, whether there be shine or gloom o'ercast,
They always must be with us, or we die.
Therefore, 'tis with full happiness that I
Will trace the story of Endymion.
The very music of the name has gone
Into my being, and each pleasant scene
Is growing fresh before me as the green
Of our own valleys: so I will begin
Now while I cannot hear the city's din;
Now while the early budders are just new,
And run in mazes of the youngest hue
About old forests; while the willow trails
Its delicate amber; and the dairy pails
Bring home increase of milk. And, as the year
Grows lush in juicy stalks, I'll smoothly steer
My little boat, for many quiet hours,
With streams that deepen freshly into bowers.
Many and many a verse I hope to write,
Before the daisies, vermeil rimmed and white,
Hide in deep herbage; and ere yet the bees
Hum about globes of clover and sweet peas,
I must be near the middle of my story.
O may no wintry season, bare and hoary,
See it half finished: but let Autumn bold,
With universal tinge of sober gold,
Be all about me when I make an end!
And now at once, adventuresome, I send
My herald thought into a wilderness:
There let its trumpet blow, and quickly dress
My uncertain path with green, that I may speed
Easily onward, thorough flowers and weed.

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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ONE WORD: WRITE!

It's all about writing for many writers as they release their creative energy on paper with hopes and dreams to follow.

Writing provides us with an open mind and the ever expanding of thoughts to keep creating over and over again. It's magical and appetizing when your creative spirit releases the passion of your words and explode into what you want your message to be.

Today write and write, and feel the explosive energy of your own creative spirit.

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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SPICY LIT NIGHT CAP! Poetry Play: Your Feet!

"YOUR FEET" By: Pablo Neruda

When I cannot look at your face
I look at your feet.
Your feet of arched bone,
your hard little feet.
I know that they support you,
and that your sweet weight
rises upon them.
Your waist and your breasts,
the doubled purple
of your nipples,
the sockets of your eyes
that have just flown away,
your wide fruit mouth,
your red tresses,
my little tower.
But I love your feet
only because they walked
upon the earth and upon
the wind and upon the waters,
until they found me.

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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YOUR CREATIVE RAINBOW!

It's all about motivation, inspiration, determination, aspiration and creativity. Yes, we are talking about your creative rainbow!

Your creative rainbow is your thoughts, muses, sayings, and your bag of writing tricks. It's what allows you to spawn story after story to produce something great for your reading audience.  It's what gives you that spark of "I'm ready to create" for that moment.

Using your creative rainbow will be up to you the writer as you continue to write. Just like the original color rainbow where you can mix two colors together and come out with a totally new color; yours is the same. It simply means you have a foundation, that you can expand and mix together and get something new.

Today, look at your creative rainbow and work with it, play around with it, and mix it up a bit. I guarantee you will discover something totally new to add to your storytelling.

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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SPICY LIT NIGHT CAP! Poetry Play Moreover, the Moon:! 3/5/11

MOREOVER, The MOON By: Mina Loy

Face of the skies
preside
over our wonder.

Fluorescent
truant of heaven
draw us under.

Silver, circular corpse
your decease
infects us with unendurable ease,

touching nerve-terminals
to thermal icicles

Coercive as coma, frail as bloom
innuendoes of your inverse dawn
suffuse the self;
our every corpuscle become an elf.

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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OPEN THE DOOR TO YOUR CREATIVITY WITH A SIMPLE LETTER!

Creativity is magic and innovation. It comes from the individual who takes time to explore and has the need to turn nothing into something.

Opening the door to your own creativity can start with anything. You can definitely find anything to spark your vision to create something spectacular. For many it's this or that, but for some it can be from a "letter."

The one "letter" of creativity can spawn an award winning novel, poem or a large following.  When doing this choose any "letter." Place the "letter" in the middle of your paper (this requires writing by hand). After that, build what you can from the "letter" and place it around the "letter in a circular motion." Remember it can be anything from: a word to a sentence to a short story. After you have completed it, take what you have and put it together into a story or poem.

What you create from the exercise will be something to remember.

Today, "open the door to your creativity with a simple letter" and create something out of this world. As you know, it could be your next big story.

By: Cherries and Strawberries
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