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Welcome to the Picture it & Write creative writing exercise. I invite people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (please provide a translation). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
Please continue to write however you’re inspired, but add a tag to the beginning of your post if there’s mature content in order to keep Picture it & Write an engaging event for all of our followers.
I walk through the world, but this is not my home. The colors are dull and low definition. Here, I feel restricted. My clothes are baggy and my shoes cause blisters. I’m stuck as a human. When the bullies chase me home from school, I don’t get to wear my +2 speed sneakers or cast spells with my staff.
At home, in the simulation, I am a 99th level wizard. instead of bullies, I face dragons and I can defeat them. No one messes with me. I have clan members who ban together against my foes just as I do for theirs. Though I have never met my closest friends, I know everything about them. They love me for me, for my raw personality. They do not see the skinny kid or hear my studder.
–Eliabeth Hawthorne
This post is also inspired by Ready Player One. I just finished my second re-read.
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Ermilia 
Sometimes a shadow reveals more than the light it is hiding. Sometimes it shows the truth behind a person, their greatness and their inner wars. Sometimes it is simply the past trailing behind trying to be seen and heard, trying to be validated. Sometimes it is another lifetime breaking through, once you were a wizard, magical and strong, fighting a dragon. Maybe, just maybe, you were the dragon trying to train the wizard in the ways of fire. Whatever the truth, your shadow is you in another form, unhidden and intrinsically aware.
such beautiful words and I believe that shadows are really our true selves
You could have been the dragon? I like that.
A lovely time to ponder on the greatness that has gone before ~ Nice work 🙂
I like the picture El. I was actually speculating about shadows these past few days 🙂 I’m sure everyone is thinking of magic for this picture and sharing Harry Potter’s birthday so am I. Thank you for the post 🙂
Here is my contribution for this week 🙂
https://rachaelsbooks.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/birthday-gift/
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Nice one Elia. Here’s mine https://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/picture-it-and-write-hidden-talents/ Enjoy
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Thanks for a great prompt Eliabeth ~ Here is my response ~
https://johnandmargaret1607.wordpress.com/2015/08/02/picture-it-and-write-identical-opposites/
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Here’s my entry: http://tarangsinha.blogspot.in/2015/08/in-lap-of-nature.html
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My contribution for the picture prompt:
http://scraps-from-life.blogspot.com/2015/08/shadow-play.html