I can't sleep

 

I was going to write you a whole whiny post on how I can't sleep, and how writers and sleep are enemies, but my brain decided otherwise. I keep discovering new things every day, it seems, and this particular one helped me today in writing killer sentences. So of course I had to share it with you. Remember the post on having every sentence turn? Well, it's even deeper than that. Turns out, a sentence can turn three ways, and it's up to you which way you want to turn it, and according to the way y


I was in my room
so I didn’t see the world was bleeding
looked down on my floor;
blood was dripping
out my window
I saw chaos
within these walls
I’ll be safe
closing my eyes 
I’m going back to sleep 

I wake in the middle of the night
I have too many thoughts
I can hardly breathe
I wake before sunrise
I can’t sleep

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