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Theme: chocolate / chocolat
Here is the first theme I choose to practice on. The rules of the writing practice are as follows: I give myself 10 minutes in each language to write anything that comes. No editing, no stopping, no re-reading. So the first theme is chocolate. She woke...
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Ghost / Fantôme
It's raining. It's dark already. Days are getting longer, but tonight the sky is so overcast it looks like the middle of the night already. I get out. Walking on the streets is a strange experience. Nobody is out, even though it is not that late. I walk....
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Philip part 2 / Lucie 2ème partie
Philip Part 2 When the coffee was ready he got up, poured himself a mug, added a hint of milk and a couple of sugars, and sat down again. He stared at his "I'm a nurse I need coffee" mug. He remembered how he had bought it for his wife, before she left...
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Random themes / thèmes au hasard
Bon ben hier, pas de connection internet donc pas de blog. Aujourd'hui je commence en français, histoire de voir la différence. Fragment de miroir brisé Elle me regarde l'air étonné. Qu'est-ce que j'ai bien pu faire ou dire? Rapidement sa moue change...
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Les voisins / Neighbors
J'ai des voisins. Ca fait un peu plus d'un mois qu'ils se sont installés dans l'appartement à côté du mien. Un couple de quadra un peu beauf, une caricature des Bidochons, sauf qu'il y a même pas Kader pour rattraper le niveau. Par contre niveau chiens,...
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Mark part 1 / Pierre 1ère partie
Mark part 1 7:00. BBC Radio 2 came on, rocking Mark slowly out of sleep. It took him some time to emerge fully from the dreamy slumber he was in, and realize his head was too painful to allow him to get up. He remembered at once the night before, the...
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Poem / poème
Love and hatred Are so close sometime The border so thin Between life and madness Which one do I choose Now and now and now I choose love I choose life I choose to create And not to destroy Again and again To create To forgive my mis-takes Move on And...
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Mark part 2 / Pierre 2ème partie
Mark part 2 Mark looked at his computer screen for a minute, wondering if he was very lucky, or very unlucky. The blue screen indicated that a fatal error had destroyed his hard disk. There was no way he could access anything in his computer that wouldn't...
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My inner critical voice / Ma voix intérieure critique
Today's exercice is to turn out internal critical voice into a character. So I decided to try two characterizations, one in each language. Here goes. She is tall, very thin. Skinny even. She doesn't bend easily, flexibility is not one of her strength....
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Rain / Pluie
I woke up today on the sound of rain falling on the velux window. Right over my head. That didn't put me in a great mood. I started imagining what it was going to be like to step out of the house to go to work, to navigate between the puddles to get to...
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writer's block / angoisse de la page blanche
I have identified something important today: the solution to writer's block is to write. The solution to fear is to do it anyway. I already knew that in my head. Now I have experienced it. And it feels great. The fear is not quite of the blank page. Writer's...
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Courage
Creativity is courage. The courage to let out what's inside, what's hidden. That's what is most terrifying in the process of writing in particular. To show up every day on the page is courage. It would be so much easier to watch old episodes of Mentalist...
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Style exercises 4 / Exercices de style 4
Onomatopoeia Dogs were barking. Woof woof. They woke me up. Groan. I stumbled up and to the window. Step Shuffle Step. I looked through the window. Peek peek. There were five people fighting. Bang Boom. And shouting. Argh Groar. Sirens on. Weeooweeooweoowee....
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Rose part 7 / Gilles 7ème partie
Rose part 7 Rose was feeling better since she had made the decision of going to her son's. All of a sudden, there was no rush anymore. Her son's place, and Philip with it, was not going to disappear within half an hour, after all, she joked inwardly....
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A birthday / Un anniversaire
It's snowing when we get there. We have been driving for over two hours, and are getting hungry. We drive down a scary slope full of snow and ice, and park beside the village hall where the party is going to be. As I open the door of the car, I see him,...
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Thought / Pensée
He had never thought about it before. But now that the concept had entered his mind, he felt more and more that it was logical. Everything was falling into place! It was the link he had been missing to understand all of his wife's actions in the past...
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Quick / Vite
Quick What can I write Quickly What can I do Quickly Does it even make sense To do anything If it has to be quick? Should I not just give up? I can't I promised I didn't promise it would be good I promised I'd do it Vite vite Il me presse Au suivant Comme...
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Encore le. Silence. Again.
I am longing for silence. Emptiness. Nothingness. I am looking for silence. Actively. Passively. Not answering. Not speaking. Wondering Could I have Silence In my head? Escaping speech, thoughts, words Beyond the words What is there? Images? Suffering?...
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Philip part 5 / Lucie 5ème partie
Philip Part 5 He definitely had a temperature. Not as much as the last two days, probably, but still. He felt awful. He wondered what he should do. He didn't have a good health insurance, and couldn't afford a hospitalization. Thinking hurt his head anyway,...
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Rose part 5 / Gilles 5ème partie
Rose part 5 When she hung up with Barbara, she felt calm enough to manage to fall asleep. She even fell into a deep slumber quickly, and her night was better and more restful than nights had been in a long time. Until a persistent ring ring wormed its...
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Poems / Poèmes
When I woke up It was dark And then bright Too bright Too much noise Suddenly Too much movement I was born Into life Life is Birth Death Rebirth Is it? Everything changes That's the only thing That never changes So they say Something in me Is trying to...
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Words with double meaning: Lie / mots à double sens: épuisé
Today I decided to explore double meaning words. In English and in French. It was fun!!!! "Are you lying again?" The little girl lowered her head and looked down on the floor right before her feet. She mumbled something while moving the tip of her foot...
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Pause
The story about Philip was fun to write. I had no clue where it was going as I was writing it every day. Now I have ideas of what he could do next, in a year's time, or what not. It's fun. But I also noticed that I need a break now. New inspiration is...
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Rose part 3 / Gilles 3ème partie
Rose part 3 A day had passed. Rose had to remind herself. He is a good boy. Barbara is right. Philip cares about me. He wouldn't just disappear on me. He is just busy. Maybe he got a job, that would be great. She felt like her heart jumped a bit with...
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Philip part 7: the end / Lucie 7ème partie et fin
Philip part 7 Philip apologized for waking her up. She didn't listen. She attacked: “What happened to you? Have you forgotten your old mother?!? You didn't call me back in THREE DAYS!!” “Well, I was...” She interrupted: “I was worried sick! What do you...