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Alysha Speer

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I love writing, as I love music (listening, singing, or composing) and reading. I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.
And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring.


In just a couple months, I will be free. And I'm literally going to move across the country, and spend all my hours writing. I can picture it now...in some kind of little coffee shop, my laptop in front of me. Headphones in, world buzzing around me. I'll type so fast people will stare, but I won't notice. I'll just feel free. And amazing. And I can't wait.
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Sharden (Body of Blades #1)
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Poetry: Everything (Literature & Fiction)
17 chapters   —   updated Jun 17, 2011 01:03am
Description: Copyright © 2011 Alysha Speer Ltd. All rights reserved.
Mystery in Mistead (Mystery & Thrillers)
1 chapters   —   updated Feb 03, 2011 03:01pm
Description: Copyright © 2011 Alysha Speer Ltd. All rights reserved. I had to write a 7-page mystery for my English class. I thought it was hilariously pathetic :P If you want to catch a creeped-out laugh, here it is. Haha.
Don't Be Emo (Poetry)
1 chapters   —   updated Dec 17, 2010 11:04am
Description: I had a friend who started to make a mistake, a mistake just like I did, so I wrote her a poem anonymously. In the end, I didn't have to give it to her. But I thought I'd post it on here anyway. Copyright © 2009 Alysha Speer Ltd. All rights reserved.
British Slang (Entertainment)
1 chapters   —   updated Dec 17, 2010 11:04am
Description: An assignment I had in history last year, I had to write a short story and use as many British slang words as I could. Copyright © 2009 Alysha Speer Ltd. All rights reserved.
My Wedding Day (Romance)
1 chapters   —   updated Mar 29, 2010 04:32pm
Description: Michelle and her new hub Anthony are headed on their honeymoon to Hawaii but everything, I mean everything goes wrong. Turns out Michelle looses her true love. Copyright © 2009 Alysha Speer Ltd. All rights reserved.
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“Laugh, even when you feel too sick or too worn out or tired.
Smile, even when you're trying not to cry and the tears are blurring your vision.
Sing, even when people stare at you and tell you your voice is crappy.
Trust, even when your heart begs you not to.
Twirl, even when your mind makes no sense of what you see.
Frolick, even when you are made fun of. Kiss, even when others are watching. Sleep, even when you're afraid of what the dreams might bring.
Run, even when it feels like you can't run any more.
And, always, remember, even when the memories pinch your heart. Because the pain of all your experience is what makes you the person you are now. And without your experience---you are an empty page, a blank notebook, a missing lyric. What makes you brave is your willingness to live through your terrible life and hold your head up high the next day. So don't live life in fear. Because you are stronger now, after all the crap has happened, than you ever were back before it started.”
Alysha Speer

“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living.”
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“Love doesn't give you very many choices. When you love someone, you just want to be with them. If they break your heart, you will still love them. Because hearts are easy to break, and though love is tender and sometimes fragile, love isn't.

Love sort of envelops you. It covers you like a giant shadow, then pulls you in like a blanket. You are so warm. The feeling surrounds you, and no matter how you feel, it is always there. You can't escape it. But you wouldn't want to. You are so, so safe. You can't remember the last time you were this happy. Were you ever? This happy?

Every second you are apart feels like hours. Sometimes, right before you fall asleep, you miss them so much it hurts. You ache for them. Their warmth. Their touch. Their smell. You need them. When you can't sleep you wish and wish and wish that they would wake up and talk to you. When you dream of them, you wake up smiling. When pain stabs into you, you reach out for them. You cry to them, begging them to hold you and make it all go away, make everything go away.

Love addicts you to its feeling. You never, ever want to lose that feeling. Sometimes the fear of losing love drives people to do crazy things. Like buy a plane ticket. Make a phone call. Run out of a class. Cry. Write. Laugh.

Because when you love someone, you really love them. You give them your whole heart. You trust them. You never want to be away from them. Sometimes, you don't even need their words. You just need them there.

Love is such an amazing thing, and too many people take it for granted. If you're in love, don't let it go. Don't you dare let it go.”
Alysha Speer

“Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.”
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“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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“Isn't it funny how the memories you cherish before a breakup can become your worst enemies afterwards? The thoughts you loved to think about, the memories you wanted to hold up to the light and view from every angle--it suddenly seems a lot safer to lock them in a box, far from the light of day and throw away the key. It's not an act of bitterness. It's an act if self-preservation. It's not always a bad idea to stay behind the window and look out at life instead, is it?”
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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
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message 9: by Jaree

Jaree Francis


Free sample of the There's No Tomorrow
http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/3...


Alysha Speer Jaree wrote: "Good fortune on your writings...

- Jay"


Thank you. :)


message 7: by Jaree

Jaree Francis Good fortune on your writings...

- Jay


Alysha Speer EyesOnFire wrote: "Oh. When do you think you'll be finished with the second book?"

I have no idea. it all depends.


message 5: by Amani

Amani Oh. When do you think you'll be finished with the second book?


message 4: by Alysha (last edited Oct 19, 2009 04:29pm)

Alysha Speer EyesOnFire wrote: "Oohh nice :D Pretty cool. Have you just started on the second book?"

yeah. well, I started writing it earlier this year, but I gave up to focus on editing the first book. but I'm starting over from scratch.


message 3: by Amani

Amani Oohh nice :D Pretty cool. Have you just started on the second book?


Alysha Speer EyesOnFire wrote: "I just read about it, and it sounds pretty cool. Is it going to be a trilogy?"

It's actually a 5-book series.....I have it all plotted out....


message 1: by Amani

Amani I just read about it, and it sounds pretty cool. Is it going to be a trilogy?


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