#creative hearts

[thesestoriesarewrittenonmyheart]

I have this heaviness, deep in the center of my chest. It sits just behind my sternum, taking up space next to my heart. The two converse regularly, this emotion and my wild heart; hopes and dreams, regrets and wrong turns. They've devised a plan, the two mumbling well into the night, knowing their obsidian friend will keep their secrets until they're ready to share.

Each day I'm filled with new thoughts and desires. Pack a bag: clothes, chap stick, paper and pen, extra books. Consult a map. Step bravely. New place, where no one knows my name. People will come to know me as the woman who smiles easily, has eyes the color of a spring meadow, scribbles on napkins and across her palms, always has a book in her bag...is filled with hope.

This desire has come to fill me so completely, it's all I think about. A second chance. Shed the skins of the woman the world has made, trust in myself, and start over.

[thesestoriesarewrittenonmyheart]

I needed this reminder. While working on my current fanfic and personal writing project, I always wonder: what the fuck do I have to say that hasn't been said already?! And the world changing difference is it's me. I always forget the power I have as a creator; the way I see/feel/think about a situation. And if one person reads something I write and thinks "Yes. This."...then that's amazing. And I've done well.

If you create, in whatever medium, remember this quote and that I (and others) want and need your story/art/creation.

[my-beautiful-monsters]

“Endure”

I started this piece as a Valentine. To all of the beautiful creative hearts, you are unstoppable, irrepressible, multifaceted and loved.

Ink & watercolor A3 cold pressed

MyBeautifulMonsters

[bhillson]

Ten Things Sloane Hates About Tru by Tera Lynn Childs

Ten Things Sloane Hates About Tru by Tera Lynn Childs

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[thecreativehearts]

The first chapter of Ten Things Sloane Hates About Tru is up and free to read on Wattpad.

[thecreativehearts]

Ten Things Sloane Hates About Tru

When life gives you a blank canvas, make art.

Sloane Whitaker hates everything about moving to Texas. She hates leaving behind her friends and half her family in New York, starting over senior year at Austin's NextGen Academy, and having to say she lives in Texas. Most of all, she hates that it's all her fault. If she wants to earn her way back to the Big Apple, she has to prove she can still be the perfect daughter.

Which means no vandalism art, no trouble at school, and absolutely no Tru Dorsey, her serial screw-up neighbor, who loves nothing more than pushing her buttons.

But from the moment he vaults onto the roof outside her bedroom, there is something about him that makes her want to break every rule. Suddenly it's not the ten things she hates about Tru that are at the top of her list. It's the ten reasons she doesn't want to be without him.