Mistvieh

Bio:
Hello! My name is Cheyenne! My writing journal is relevant_text, and this is my Showcase! Weeeee! I had considered coming at this Showcase thing from several angles, all of them pretentious, self-assured, and predictable. Let's see how well I do as I pursue a conscious effort to avoid that. I love to write, even if I don't do it as often as I'd like. There was never a time when I thought I didn't want to write, or at least to create. I have always been a very artistic person, in a sense. It's almost like a vent for madness. I have a very crowded, very difficult mind that almost never shuts up or gives me peace. This constant mental jabber coupled with my amazing ability to procrastinate and lose focus makes for a very typical artist: brilliant, but lazy. I think writing makes sense to me because language makes sense to me. I put incredible stock in words. Funny thing about words… everyone uses them, but not everyone can wield them. I think that's what I love most. You really have to understand words before you can bend them effectively to your will. I like to think I've got a leg up in this skill, if only a small one. By age 13 I was sure I wanted to write a novel. The characters for that novel (and about 9 others since, vying for attention) have been plaguing my thoughts ever since. I'm hoping Brigit's Flame will become the orifice through which I expectorate my creative congestion. ;-) I joined the wonderful Flame in the last week of April, after a period of arm-twisting I endured at the hands of our very own awkward_ostrich. I finally gave in, made a Live Journal, and submitted my Week 4 entry for April, a piece entitled 'Reap', of which I am still quite proud. I love this community for more reasons than I can babble about here without being abridged. It's pushed me to expand my horizons a little, focus on new avenues, and incorporate new elements into my writing. I try to do something different every week, so that I never get 'type-casted' or lose the nerve to challenge myself. I have writing-from-life pretty much nailed. Reality makes sense to me; it's easy to manipulate into something I like – it's Genre writing I really need to master (i.e. horror, sci-fi, mystery, fantasy). I am learning quite a lot from my fellow Flames, and I am very grateful to be a part of something that brings so many different writers together so that we can learn from and teach one another through a conduit that makes so much sense to us, on such a personal (almost spiritual) level. I want to write about everything, all things, in every way, and with every possibility. Limiting myself would be a great and terrible sin. As I press on, aiming to better myself as an artist, I hope to help others do the same. Oh, and… I wanna win too! ^___^

The Chosen Piece:
The entry I've included for this Showcase is an entry I wrote for the prompt 'Morning Glory', for which I refused to write about flowers. I went through a stubborn phase in which I was obstinately avoidant of using the literal definition of the prompts, though it is possible I may have failed somewhat. This piece is rather special to me because it speaks from a personal place (though the story is fictional), a place of confusion and personal skepticism. The narrator is based on myself and speaks with a voice similar to mine, and the 'co-star' is based on a friend of mine who requested to be the 'inspiration', haha. Also, Kathy really likes it so I thought it was the right choice because it really did get a great response from a lot of people. I got some wonderful edits for it, but I didn't have the heart to go back and change it, not yet. Enjoy and feel free to comment even though it's old!

The Link:
http://relevant-text.livejournal.com/1179.html

 

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