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If I were.. inspired

Journal Entry: Sat Feb 9, 2008, 9:40 PM


Moonbeam13's Journal


I don't feature enough literature. I know that and I intend to fix that but right now I'm inspired because someone wrote about the possibility of being a line. That's right folks..

I'm not silly enough to think that if I post a bunch of literature thumbs you're going to read them. It's not a quick fix like visual art, you have to make an effort to enjoy it, you have to be part of the conversation.

So I present to you this piece by ~dailenna that I fell in love with because of it's honest simplicity and because it made me feel inspired at the end.




I ask you to read "If I Were a Line" and then I challenge you to read another literature piece and post a journal about it encouraging your watchers to read it and write a journal about something they read.. we can start a movement here, we can shine the light on this often overlooked artform.

:heart:

Faith In Humanity Tally

Calculations: Subtract 1 point for negatives and Add 1 for positives




Tally
January - 414 points

February 1 - +1 (laughed at myself and let you guys laugh too)
=415 points

February 2 - +2 (had a fantastic girls day out with my favorite girls)
-1 (was subjected to the news again)
=416 points

February 3 - +1 (learned to chill)
-1 (subjected to evil news again on the plane)
+1 (had a great dinner with $FallenRox another favorite girl!)
+1 (was re-energized by $FallenRox's energy)
=418 points

February 4 - -4 (brutalized in journals)
+1 (made huge progress on projects and motivated by team members)
+1 (free lunch!)
+1 (Angelo made me a custom latte)
+1 (had dinner with a friend)
=418 points

February 5 - -1 (was disappointed by someone's actions)
+1 (was motivated by people around me)
+1 (talked to an old friend)
+3 (found out love was the #1 search word)
+1 (found out hate wasn't in the top 100)
=423 points

February 6 +1 (random person helped me out at airport)
-1 (coffee suicide)
-1 (3 hour delay on airplane)
+1 (made a friend on the plane)
+1 (rescued by Rob, got home safe)
= 424 points

February 7 - +1 (found new fun feature idea)
+1 (was helped by a friend)
=426 points

February 8 - +1 (parliamentfunk sent me a song)
-1 (Rob left for an extended word assignment)
+3 (Expected results for a project are better than I could have imagined because of
team work)
=429 points

February 9 - +2 (Collections launch!)
















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:iconcircasylum:
D:> Literature IS looked away from a lot. It's a reason I quit working on a lot of projects dealin' with words. ><!

I'll support this idea. *nods* Thank you.

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Laugh and be merry, playing thy part,
Laugh, Punchinello, for the joy that is ended,
Laugh for the pain that is breaking thy heart.
:iconkevind23:
That's one thing that you guys should work on here. Literature on dA needs a LOT more love than we (all) are giving it :(

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:iconskippyjr:
That's a good pick there,
And yes, lit is need more support in here.

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:iconskippyjr:
*needs

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:iconemeraldsugar:
I need to start featuring literature again in my montly news. :XD:

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:iconmoonbeam13:
agreed and it's a big red sticky note for me so that makes it very important!

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:iconstjoan:
:excited:

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Support dA Writers who have the balls to publish

StJoan, M.D. of DramaLlamaology
Literature GD at your service.
:iconstjoan:
for sure!

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Support dA Writers who have the balls to publish

StJoan, M.D. of DramaLlamaology
Literature GD at your service.
:iconwyreth:
About damn time.

Writers never get any love here.

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:bulletpurple: Tell someone they've inspired you, and why.
:bulletpurple: Tell people why you like their art, and the things that actually make it pretty. Not simply that "It's awsome."
:bulletpurple: Most of all, comment, don't just click and pass
:iconinspiredimperfection:
that's a lovely imaginative piece and your inspiration-chain idea is awesome..

i've actually wanted to do this myself for some time but i've felt there was one obstacle which was that the lit-thumbs in journals dont do the whole magical-scrolly thing that they do in the main DA gallery.. i know that's not a biggy but it does add a lot of tease factor and i imagine it would draw more viewers to actually *click* once they got a peek of a few lines.. i thought of copy/pasting features pieces right into my journal so you read it right there, but that wouldnt feel right to me even with permission and credits and all.. PLUS it would decrease the potential of comments and faves going the artists way.. i'd appreciate your thoughts on this, its something i've been wondering about for some time now. :)

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