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Trying Something New
I'm trying something new. My entire family is very musical and well...I'm not. My new neighbor has now convinced me to learn how to play the recorder. You know, that kiddie flute thing children learned to play in second grade. I can't read music. I write the note letters above the score and fuddle along. I must say, there's a lot of squeaking and squealing if that's what you call music. I plod along, doing my best. It's not like I have a recital or a concert I need to learn. It's something I wanted to try. I'm old, shhh, but there's no reason I can't try, right?
Ask my cats, they run from the room. They might disagree.
Trying something new isn't always easy. Starting a new contest or trying a new activity can be daunting. Try finding a mentor willing to take a look at your efforts and listen to their suggestions. It gets easier with time. The best advice I can give is to go in with ZERO expectations and have fun with it. If it bombs, well...you gave it a shot. And hopefully learned a few things along the way.
In all, you're writing, participating, and hopefully reviewing. Keeping active on the site and writing will help you improve your skills. You'll have fun, even if you stumble a little along the way.
Write On!
This month's question: Have you tried anything new lately? Send in your answer below!  Editors love feedback!
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Character Prompt for March 2024: Write a story where a sidekick/supporting character
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Pick one theme per month from the list below. Themes will change monthly. Submit only ONE project each month. You will receive the corresponding Merit Badge for your completed project. Complete three projects in consecutive months and receive an exclusive Merit Badge in addition!
Here we are, many years later, fighting for the throne again. Will it be you? Will it be your team who'll win this time? Only the Gods know, the old and the new. Question is, will you join? And how?
Join! This starts soon! "Whatever your musical tastes may be, most of us can agree that music plays an integral part in our lives. Many of us can remember where we were or what we were doing when we heard a particular song, of how it inspired us, brought us to tears, or made us giddy with happiness. This contest hopes to recapture those memories by encouraging you to listen to a favorite album again and allow the songs to inspire your creativity through writing."
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This month's question: Have you tried anything new lately? Send in your answer below! Editors love feedback!
Last month's question: Is it possible to write about romance if you've never had a deep relationship??
Beholden  : Certainly it's possible. But would it have any value? It would offend against the dictum of "write what you know," obviously. Yet you could read a few Hallmark novels and conclude (with some accuracy) that you could do a fair imitation.
However, I doubt just anyone could read Pride & Prejudice (for instance) and then write something equally good. It all depends on how talented the writer is in the first place. And that applies to any genre, doesn't it? In the end, it's going to help if you have some experience in what you're writing about, but it's not essential.
Gaby ~ Finding my way back  : Oh, yes!
Samberine Everose  : yes, but it is more unique and deeper if you had.
oldgreywolf scribbles  : There's sufficient evidence to demonstrate that, no matter the topic, there'll be someone who totally faked their way through the writing and publishing processes, and many someones who'll take it as gospel.
D. Reed Whittaker : Probably better if you hadn't. Imagination can be more Ipowerful than experience. How many of us have had 'deep' relationships which anyone would want to read about? Well, there was one. And then there was Sue. And. ..
Simply Me  : What about Jane Austin?
Dad : Fortunately, I have been as deep relationship with Mom, my wife, for 39 years. Can someone who has never been in a deep relationship write romance? Yes. I've never been in outer space, yet I write convincingly (hopefully) about outer space. Maybe not a perfect analogy, but still a valid point. I think.
TheBusmanPoet : You can imagine it but actually feeling it, in my opinion, would be extremely hard. I'll disagree with Love isn't an emotion. It's much more deeper than any emotion out there. But it's just my opinion and been living it since 1982.So what do I know. I'll proclaim that "Love" is an emotion and a very powerful one.
jackson : If you have a command over language and a willingness in your heart, no subject is beyond your reach.
s  : That's what imagination's for...
Alex Morgan : Of course! Fiction is easy!
JACE  : I never really thought about this in those terms. It seems to be a pretty clinical (or maybe cynical) way to look at love. But it certainly helps explain many of the screwed-up things going on in the world at present.
Some might say love is not an emotion in the way we usually understand them, but a behavior, a necessary physiological drive. I like to believe love is more, and focus on the passion and intimacy, commitment and trust, and just plain attraction.
keyisfake : We write about murder and we never did that so why not.
Bob : Romance is imagination stimulated by hormones.
oldgreywolf scribbles : Bob - I think it was Berkeley BREATHED (cartoonist, Bloom County) who used the term "percolating" hormones.
Bob : oldgreywolf scribbles - forty-roger old gray
deemac : Technically, yes. Convincingly, no.
elephantsealer : Without a "deep relationship", there is really, actually no story....
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