Category Archives: Creative writing

World Book and Copyright Day!

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“I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

I have no words when it comes to Somerset. My all time favourite writer whose stories are flows of words about the life and adventures of ordinary people in ordinary circumstances.
Somerset’s artful gift of gab made them extraordinary people living in extraordinary circumstances.

Love is not a hot-house flower

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“Love is not a hot-house flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine; sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. A wild plant that, when it blooms by chance within the hedge of our gardens, we call a flower; and when it blooms outside we call a weed; but, flower or weed, whose scent and colour are always, wild!”
― John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga

Art – James R Eads
Source: Facebook

Perfume is the memory of a feeling

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Welcome to the world of perfumes!

Whether you want to create your own scent, or smell ten thousand roses, there is a perfume for everyone in our collection. From citrusy fragrances, to floral scents, to designer perfumes from every decade and trend imaginable, explore the selection we’ve hand-selected just for you!

Discover a collection of fragrances that are sure to make an impression. Each perfume embodies its own distinctive personality…
While each scent is unique, they are all a perfect reminder of a moment.

Express your own personality with scent. May we suggest our amaranthine Lemon Noir? Accented with black cherries and saffron, this scent draws you in with a rush of seductive roses and jasmine. Then its heart is revealed, a trail of bergamot, a bouquet of oranges, lemons, vanilla and sandalwood.

Perfumes smell great, but they also make the world more interesting, more beautiful. And that’s what you want to radiate when you wear the right perfume. Of course it should smell good, but it should also speak to your own unique personality. That’s what our expert fragrance advisors are here for. They’re always happy to help you find the perfect scent, one that will make a first impression as memorable as the last. Your friends will wonder what smells so good when they catch a whiff of your new perfume, and your loved ones will always know when you’ve returned home by following their noses to find you there. It’s all about making things special for both you and those around you. So where do you start? It starts with our personal fragrance advisors at Sephora. They’ll introduce you to classic fragrances and timeless scents, new reaches in perfumery by talented niche perfumers working outside the mainstream. They can help you find a fragrance family or love affair that speaks to who you are and how you want others to see you.

Perfume is the memory of a feeling. Our perfumes are designed to enhance your aura and help you bring more out of life. From sophisticated to sporty, floral to fruity, enjoy the widest selection of perfume brands in the world and news ways to discover your right scent. Shop our perfume store to find your next memorable fragrance. – Lemon Noir

Creative Writing Course

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Do you want your emails, reports, and letters to stand out? Would you like to develop your ideas into powerful pitches? And do you dream of finding a clear, concise style of business writing that will make your work stand out from the crowd? This is the course for you.

Creative Writing for Business is a fresh, practical course for marketing and communication professionals. It offers how-to techniques, practical advice, and real-world examples to improve your written materials across all media: websites, brochures, proposals, and more. It’s available through the Learning On Demand library.

Creative Writing for Business is an engaging course that helps business professionals find their voice, discover and develop a range of new writing ideas, and harness the power of words to persuade and inspire.

If you’ve already been writing for your company, this course will give you the skills to write in a more creative way. If you haven’t written for your company yet, this course will give you the skills you need to feel confident about taking on that role. Either way, this is a must-have tool for any writer who wants to learn and practice successful business communication.

Content creation is a massive task to tackle. We start with the story without which your business wouldn’t exist. It might be the simple story of how you got the idea or how your idea came into being.

Writing is like mining for gold. We need to drill, excavate, and blast through a huge amount of rock before we find a vein of gold. Once found, we deliver your content writing, business writing, SEO writing, and creative writing with joy, as we have a flair for writing in different styles at affordable rates.

My unique teaching style focuses on fundamental business ideas while assisting you in writing with clarity in mind. I will walk you through the steps of developing a process strategy, defining a policy and procedure, conveying performance objectives, and creating professional papers for your business.

I prompt you to start writing with “The truest sentence that you know“.

We’d love to hear from you!
http://www.seocopywriting.ro/en/contact-us.php

Art – Alexander Akerbladh (1886 – 1958)

Words

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My words are all colours
I see them in greens and blues and reds and yellows.

A Green is for midsummer’s eve
A White is for a flower
A Blue is for you

And for me, I have TRUE.

“Truer” are the truths of hope
loaded with the guns of love.

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Featured on Blue Insights, a Medium.com publication.

© Iulia Halatz
Co-author of Anthology Volume I: Writings from the Sudden Denouement Literary Collective, available on Amazon and Kindle.
Thank you for reading!

Art — Marc Chagall, Lovers in the lilacs. Source: Facebook

World Poetry Day!

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Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.

World Poetry Day is the occasion to honour poets, revive oral traditions of poetry recitals, promote the reading, writing and teaching of poetry, foster the convergence between poetry and other arts such as theatre, dance, music and painting, and raise the visibility of poetry in the media.

In celebration of this day, I include one of my fondest poems, published in the Sudden Denouement Anthology Volume I.

What can I give you?

What can I give you? I am the blue
as imagined by a blind
and the roots of knowledge
as watered by a scholar.

I am the yellow
wind and the mauve
respond of light
perched
in the ubiquitous trees
tethered in the clouds
that barely scratch
the sky.

I am the green
storm and colorless waves
that wished upon a mountain
to break water in tryst
with the sun.

Not by blindness
we can reorder colors
but by the painting of a soul
in a moment tender
as the liquid moon
is quivering above the forest.

© Iulia Halatz

Art by Jan Schmuckal. Source – Facebook

“To the Parcae”

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A single summer grant me, great powers, and
a single autumn for fully ripened song
that, sated with the sweetness of my
playing, my heart may more willingly die.
The soul that, living, did not attain its divine
right cannot repose in the nether world.
But once what I am bent on, what is
holy, my poetry, is accomplished:
Be welcome then, stillness of the shadows’ world!
I shall be satisfied though my lyre will not
accompany me down there. Once I
lived like the gods, and more is not needed.”
― Friedrich Hölderlin

Parcae – In ancient Roman religion and myth, the Parcae (singular, Parca) were the female personifications of destiny who directed the lives (and deaths) of humans and gods. They are often called the Fates in English, and their Greek equivalent were the Moirai.

Art – René Magritte – Infinite Recognition (1961)

Sakura in Moonlight

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Every time I look at such paintings and imagine such nights, Somerset’s words come to mind:

“It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.”
– W. Somerset Maugham– 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965.

Noriko Okawara, Sakura in Moonlight