The Z-Axis

Blind Like Water: A Poem

By: Amira K. March 13, 2015March 13, 2015

Compositions, Poemscomposition, fiction, imagery, love, ocean, poems, Poetry, romance, writing6 Comments

Tonight, I will sleep in the garden Buried under rocks and sand A man will come with a rake every now and then To carve lines into my body And he will say “The flowers are sweet today.” At night when the lights are quiet The moon like a sea shell washed ashore by a…

A Day For Dreaming

By: Amira K. March 11, 2015March 11, 2015

Publishing, The Seeds Trilogy1 Comment

Horray! Today is BOOKBUB DAY! This means that my debut novel, THE SOWING, is temporarily discounted to $0.99. DID YOU HEAR THAT? YOU CAN BUY AN ENTIRE BOOK FOR NINETY-NINE CENTS! Does anyone else find this a little bit crazy? Crazy awesome, amirite?! After all, once upon a time, books were the possessions of the elite,…

In Which I Attempt To Shoot Fashion Photography

By: Amira K. February 22, 2015February 22, 2015

Photographyfashion, forest, photography, pictures, portraits, woods2 Comments

One of my hobbies, for those of you who don’t know, is photography. Every now and then I get a chance to take advantage of this love and bum a dSLR camera from my sister to take photos. Recently, I decided I wanted to experiment with some fashion and portrait photography. As it was my…

Renaissance

By: Amira K. February 18, 2015February 18, 2015

Compositions, Photography, Poems, TravelBuddhism, enlightenment, garden, Hawaii, jungle, poems, Poetry, rain, travel, zen1 Comment

The sky is bright today The sky is bright today Pitter-patter, says the rain, beating on my thigh My hands are alive The water falls in myriad ways A fern swallows me The sky is bright today — This poem is meant to accompany this photo, which is a visual representation of an epiphany of…

I Am Fire

By: Amira K. January 29, 2015January 29, 2015

Compositions, Poemsemotion, fire, flame, memoir, personality, poems, Poetry, words, writing15 Comments

Great granitic catacombs, hollowed out by flame rust inside my soul. Magma cracks through the crust of my earth, smoking. Metal, molten, seethes at my core; the history of my formation, tumultuous, written in every layer of my skin. Black ash spouts from my mouth, volcanic, I erupt, bursting, spitting, lashing, lava tongues and rocky…

What To Drink With What You Read

By: Amira K. January 20, 2015February 8, 2017

Wine, Writing13 Comments

So, fellow readers, you’ve just added twelve books to your Kindle queue and bought three used books at your local indie bookseller. If you’re anything like me, by this point you’re starting to experience chest constriction, loss of vision and muscle control, and a powerful desire to curl up under your bedsheets and never make…

Writing As Devotional

By: Amira K. January 6, 2015January 6, 2015

Musings, Writingart, devotion, passion, writing1 Comment

“A professional writer is just an amateur who didn’t quit.” I quit writing this year. Not on purpose. It was definitely not on purpose. Unlike my friend J. Edward Paul, who gives up writing every other day and is only lured back to it by the fact that his stories are simply bursting out of…

Book Review: Who Is Evelyn Dae by Sarah La Fleur

By: Amira K. December 29, 2014December 28, 2014

Book Review, Publishing, Writingbook review, books, illustration, Matthew LaFleur, reading, Sarah LaFleur, Who Is Evelyn Dae, writing3 Comments

A few weeks back I won something in a random draw contest. It was the first time in my life I’ve ever won something at a raffle-style event, so that alone was special. It was made even more special because the thing that I won happened to be a paperback copy of Who Is Evelyn Dae,…

Four Ways To Improve Your Dialogue and Write Better Characters

By: Amira K. December 15, 2014December 15, 2014

Publishing, Writingdescription, dialogue, dialogue tags, writing, writing tips, writing tricks6 Comments

Writing dialogue, is, in my opinion, one of the most difficult aspects of writing. Description? I’m all over that. I’ll describe shit to you all day long. Character development? Challenging, but can come naturally as the plot moves along. Plot? Easy. If you ever took an English class in high school you know how to write a…

Book Blogger Confessions Tag

By: Amira K. December 3, 2014December 3, 2014

Musings, Publishingbook blogger tag, Book covers, books, confessions, favorites, literature, reading, writing6 Comments

I don’t usually do these games. In fact, I haven’t done one in almost a year. I think the last time I did a blog chain or tag game was January of last year. But because I haven’t blogged much in a few months, and I’m trying to remember how to do it, I’m going…