This is my favorite poem published on www.storypoet.com

DREAMS AT NOON

My eyes turned red
Like a flaming charcoal
Fanned by a directionless wind
I was the oven
That bore the heat
All of me
It was as if I was going to burn
Anyone who touched me
So they withdrew
Like a swift snail that sensed the thorn



But fire coming out of my eyes carried
Dreams at noon
Dreams that refused to be robbed
By darkness of the night
They bulged out into the light of day


I first trod with wobbly feet
I poured water to cool off the heat
But the heat refused to die
I poured water over and over again
Till the water became a flood
Which I had to navigate through
To plant my feet on a dry land
Then my eyes opened
To the reality
That dreams are meant to be lived
Then shall it stop burning

The fire in my eyes became my compass
It lit the way
I followed
And my feet never stumbled again


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At the beginning of each year, businesses and private individuals make resolutions or set goals for the year. As a writer, you are in a serious business. So I expect you to set smart writing goals for the year.





If you are want to be a professional writer and you really want to set smart writing goals, I expect that your overall goal will reflect the following activities.

Write Everyday
Read Everyday (materials in your field)
Rehearse
Publish a book
Qualities of a Great writing Goal

Specific:
Your writing goal should be something you see and understand at a glance. Your goal should not be something like: I want to write well. I want to write many things.

That is a bad goal. make your goals to be specific like: I will write 2 novels this year. You can go further to write the titles of the novels you want to write and a short description of the story line.

Attainable
Your goal should be something you can do. If your goal is too big that you cannot attain it, it is not a goal. Don’t say, I will write and publish one hundred books this year.

Mesurable
Make sure that your goal shows a clear difference between when it is met and when it is not met. It will help you know the progress recorded on your goal attainment.

Time-Bound
Every smart writing goal is time-bound. that is, it is your goal must be linked to a specific time when you expect to achieve them. It is a great thing to say, I will write and publish one novel this year. It is another great thing to say, I Will start writing from January. I expect to finish writing by June. I will edit and Publish in the second half of the year.

Similarly, you can break down the goal to smaller sizes.

Relevant
I believe this is the main thing. If you want to set smart writing goals, your goals must center on writing. D’ont set goals outside writing when you are actually a writer. You are a writer but you are setting goals on how to buy paint brush. Are you a painter? What are we going to call that?

After you have set smart writing goals, please make sure that you do the following:

Write regularly
Read related materials in your field. Every writer is a researcher.
Make sure that at the end of a given period you will have something great to show.
You have known how to set smart writing goals now. okay. I hope you also know how to generate a good story to write. Click here to get a good story and start writing.


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The season arrived again In its busy wind Clashing bud against bud In its fury movement I have likewise been shaken by the season ‘Cause I salute the young year with my shrill cry With a river of tears Drowning my maiden face like the Titanic How will I suckle a baby in my virgin breast? Fatherless child of a living father How will I bear my shame to Mama Who is my baby fatther Solo? Jerry? Jeff? I was their season’s ride Solo first tore my innocence That cold night, my back was on the rustic grass His strength above me Danced the melody of crickets And the moon above us was the torch bearer His thrusts soaked me in a pool of blood and tears While his promises were a heavy Downpour in a harmatarn night I will buy you motor I will buy you chocolate I will buy you an elephant Promises my eyes never met It was a painful pleasure That turned me into an Oliver Twist And Jerry’s bait caught me And likewise did I find my back on the grass For Jeff It all did not exceed the seventh day And I drowned in my own pool of shame

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HOW TO GENERATE A STORY TO WRITE
December 18, 2018 - by Ani SP
Do you want to write a story but you don't know how to generate a story and how to start writing it? Do you admire story writers but think you are not talented enough to write? Have you been looking for an experienced writer who can lead you through a step by step process of story writing? If you fall into one of the above caregories, then this article is for you.
There are people who are born story writers. There are also other people who are made story writers. Story writing is a skill, and every skill can be acquired. So anyone who desires to write can learn how to write from an experienced writer.
Story writing starts with ideation. This is the most important part of story writing because it is where you generate the story to write. Every story is crafted around a topic or theme. The theme is the central idea. However, in this article I am going to assume that you already know the literary terms and their meanings. But if you have not familiarized yourself with the literary terms you can click here to read them up.
Let us go straight to how to generate a publishable story. Draw your seat closer for what is coming will interest you. The foundation and most challenging part of story writing is the ideation stage which I already discussed above. There are many sources or many things you think are potential stories everywhere, but to get a publishable story can be difficult. I have therefore come up with three sources through which you can generate a story to write.
THREE SOURCES OF STORY
1. Personal experience
2. Story told by other people ( virgin stories only)
3. Vision and dreams
PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
You can see a publishable story in what you experienced. What you experienced can be categorised into what you saw, what you felt, and what you tasted. For a wanna-be story writer, the easiest way to generate a story is through your personal experience. Here you can describe what you personally experienced better than when somebody is telling you the story. You feel one with the story you are writing, the scene and characters, because you saw it happen. You have first hand information pertaining to your story.
To turn your experiences into a
fiction, all you need to do is create fictitious characters to impersonate characters in your real-life experience. Then apply a small creative skill on the story so that whoever reads it will know it is really a creative work, and not a literal report of a real-life incident.
For instance, you were in a scene where two young men fought over a young lady. You watched it. You helped seperate the fight. You saw the verbal and nonverbal expressions of the two young men and the young lady too. You listened to them explain how it all started and what each person wanted. Having all these data, your story is almost written. Just go home and start writing. You can create other scenes but most importantly the scene you witnessed must feature in the story. That makes you one with or emotionally connected with the story you are writing. There you have the opportunity of describing how Mr A weilded a bottle, broke it on his own head and used the jagged piece to stab Mr B. Mr B cried out…writhed in pain…and so on. You have to start from somewhere.
SOMEONE CAN TELL YOU A VIRGIN STORY
Similarly, someone can tell you an interesting story that has never been written by someone else. It could come from your elders or even from a younger one. Unlike personal experience, you did not witness the incident. You are getting the data from an eye witness. It could even be a story passed from generation to generation. You have to be a writer to see a publishable story in the story you heard. Or at least you must have been scouting for a story before you can catch the creative part of the story you heard.
YOU CAN GET A STORY IN A VISION OR DREAM
This source is highly pertinent to people who are born writers, or at least people who have effectively developed the creative writing skill. Those two set of people can communicate with what I can the angel of creativity. You may call it the muse. If you believe that there is a spirit that controls everything, you should also believe with me that my angel of creativity controls creative endeavors. This is a guide that can come to you in your dream to give you story(ies) to write. I know this because the angel of creativity gave me SOMEONE SOMEWHERE in a dream. I published Someone Somewhere in 2018. And after writing BEHIND THE MASK, I was searching for a better title for the book when the angel of creativity came and showed me Behind the Mask. And I have always been in a constant communion with this angel of creativity.
Some times, the story here can come in form of a flash of inspiration. You just see it in your mind’s eye. You just feel yiu should write it.
If you seriously want to get a story to write, dont ignore the above sources. I hope this article has helped you. Be kind to give me your feedback in the comment box below. I expect to see you write a story soon.

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