The practicing writer, the writer-at-work, the writer immersed in his or her project, is not an entity at all, let alone a person, but a curious melange of wildly varying states of mind, clustered toward what might be called the darker end of the spectrum: indecision, frustration, pain, dismay, despair, remorse, impatience, outright failure.

Quote of the Week originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 at 12:22:13.

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Updates! originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Friday, April 14th, 2006 at 10:36:16.

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Creative Fantasy is founded upon the hard recognition that things are so in the world as it appears under the sun; on a recognition of fact, but not a slavery to it.

Quote of the Week originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 at 09:54:07.

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• Attempt to Write by kat.
• Po-po by beks.
• Graveyard Shift by D. L. Packer.
• Trees by three-letters-long.
• Bitter-Sweet Winter by Miss Bluesky.
• The Bounds by Stephanie Amaru.
• Mistress of Uncertainty by Stephanie Amaru.
• An Epic Lead Apocalypse by Stephanie Amaru.
• My Name is Love by Brooke-Ashley.
• There Is A Moment by sam.
• Family Walk by Anonymous.
• Reflection by Anonymous.
• Aerial Aesthetic by FactionParadox.

New Poetry originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Sunday, April 9th, 2006 at 15:42:02.

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For all my longer works (i.e the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on.

Quote of the Week originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Tuesday, April 4th, 2006 at 15:08:46.

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• Omen by Karissa M.

  Every other Saturday, a group of thirty or so 15, 16 and 17 year-olds convened in the Anglican Church on Main Street.

• Happy End of the Everything by IAmBensNetName. GUIDE FAVE!

  All the magazines and newspapers were billing it as the biggest party of the . . . ever.

• Shushing The Beacon by RibcageRomance.

  i never didn't believe in love. i never went out on that limb which said love didn't exist. i sometimes said that love didn't want me, or that i was not meant for love.

• Artificial Living by Emily Jewer.

  Catherine stood by the food programmer while it prepared the tea and scones. Laughter from the visiting neighbourhood housewives wafted in from the back yard as the weekly meeting was coming to an end, and so chitchat laced with a few scandalous rumours of the neighbourhood goings-on commenced.

New Fiction originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Friday, March 31st, 2006 at 14:23:37.

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• Rambling by Willy K.

  Constant movement, I cannot sit still, the blank screen stares back at me, taunting me. A quarter to one right now though it doesn't matter.

• Distance by Aleli Gaddi Roselo.

  As a homecoming present, I stayed up late last night and drew a funny caricature of my best friend Aya.

• The Pain Inside by Monahan.

  Her stare was devouring every inch of my confidence. It was driving bullets of icy fear into my head. Her sneers were deafening, bouncing off the bleeding walls of my mind.

• The Senses of Chrismas Season by Helene.

  The outside, growing increasingly cold, reminds me of the quickly approaching Christmas. The quietness of the outdoors causes me to feel isolated.

New Non-Fiction originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Friday, March 31st, 2006 at 13:03:04.

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. . . it matters that I get it right. That a sword weighs this much, and cuts like that, even if it's being handled by a six-foot talking Rat. That the logical consequences of there being five points of the compass (still all 90° apart) in the city at the heart of the world -- just try drawing the frontispiece map to that! -- are followed through. Naturally the hero keeps getting lost.

Quote of the Week originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 at 14:53:53.

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• My Charge, fiction by Counterfission.
• Beyond the Storm, fiction by Emma L.
• This Is a Poem, poetry by Joel Stein.
• Longing, poetry by DRImp.
• Urban Beauty, poetry by Anonymous.
• blind captivity, poetry by xxloverxx3.
• Surrender, fiction by Boo.
• Splinters, poetry by nikkit_248.
• She, poetry by Lenka.
• True Courage, poetry by Kelsey Gordon.
• It's Sin, poetry by Comrade Penny.
• Blank, poetry by Siena Anstis.

Here they are, the last of the submissions to the Unnamed Abstract Challenge originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Saturday, March 25th, 2006 at 21:53:49.

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Quote of the Week originally appeared on About.com Creative Writing for Teens on Tuesday, March 21st, 2006 at 20:27:22.

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