<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319846570117052607</id><updated>2012-02-16T00:33:05.005-08:00</updated><category term='My first writing piece'/><title type='text'>Writing For Fun</title><subtitle type='html'>I am writing this blog, because I need help and practice in my writing skills. My friend said that this will be a fun way to get help and start writing. I like literature, so if people want to share their favorite essays, books, feel free to share.  Also please let me know what I can do to write better.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Bess</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08926108073527823248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319846570117052607.post-1300833134672791989</id><published>2011-03-11T10:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-13T22:14:06.594-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Blue Tide</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lib9SCBXNwk/TXprJynHHHI/AAAAAAAAAAo/Q1_IiJ4IVoo/s1600/japan%2B1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lib9SCBXNwk/TXprJynHHHI/AAAAAAAAAAo/Q1_IiJ4IVoo/s320/japan%2B1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582892504027962482" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G6w5H9_70ME/TXpqy-j2YZI/AAAAAAAAAAY/ydmV1DvRrvE/s1600/318-104Japan_Earthquake.sff.embedded.prod_affiliate.36.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 183px; height: 165px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-G6w5H9_70ME/TXpqy-j2YZI/AAAAAAAAAAY/ydmV1DvRrvE/s320/318-104Japan_Earthquake.sff.embedded.prod_affiliate.36.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582892112098517394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;Blue Tide&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;In the quiet of the night&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And the thunder of the day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;My heart shook&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;My soul Felt a Tsunami&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;An upheaval of emotions&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L4yKFIL3dlI/TXpqaGlzY4I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/Vtv5wZBed_Y/s1600/japan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 155px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-L4yKFIL3dlI/TXpqaGlzY4I/AAAAAAAAAAQ/Vtv5wZBed_Y/s320/japan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5582891684757463938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;exploited in the air&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A rush flooded the earth&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world woke up&lt;br /&gt;And&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt; immense sadness&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-size: 100%; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;filled the human soul&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-EB&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/Office/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot.png" alt="" /&gt; &lt;img src="file:///C:/DOCUME~1/Office/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5319846570117052607-1300833134672791989?l=writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/feeds/1300833134672791989/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5319846570117052607&amp;postID=1300833134672791989' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/1300833134672791989'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/1300833134672791989'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-heart-shook-my-soul-felt-tsunami.html' title='Blue Tide'/><author><name>Bess</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08926108073527823248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lib9SCBXNwk/TXprJynHHHI/AAAAAAAAAAo/Q1_IiJ4IVoo/s72-c/japan%2B1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319846570117052607.post-5803251469340809782</id><published>2011-03-02T20:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T10:52:49.465-08:00</updated><title type='text'>What is art????</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 102); font-weight: bold;" class="Apple-style-span"&gt;B&lt;span&gt;ess, discovered the simple truth that art is  a creature full of emotions, and only those who know how to steer those emotions in the soul can seize the masses. EB&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQqnsNxdI9oQxoldrraWcLGNv-rght03aqN_N26Te0EURkCUqN3fw" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5319846570117052607-5803251469340809782?l=writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/feeds/5803251469340809782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5319846570117052607&amp;postID=5803251469340809782' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/5803251469340809782'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/5803251469340809782'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-is-art.html' title='What is art????'/><author><name>Bess</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08926108073527823248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319846570117052607.post-1979305243818537843</id><published>2011-02-24T21:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T10:49:18.643-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A realization about mistakes</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 153);"&gt;Today I found my self thinking about mistakes people make, and I realized that there are two type of people in this world. The first type keep making mistakes using the first mistake as an excuse and the second type is the kind that  do their best not to make the same mistake or similar mistakes because they remember their first mistake.  - Bess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5319846570117052607-1979305243818537843?l=writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/feeds/1979305243818537843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5319846570117052607&amp;postID=1979305243818537843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/1979305243818537843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/1979305243818537843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/2011/02/realization-about-mistakes.html' title='A realization about mistakes'/><author><name>Bess</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08926108073527823248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319846570117052607.post-8639110913785636296</id><published>2011-02-20T22:28:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-03-11T10:50:49.948-08:00</updated><title type='text'>New Orleans Mardi Gras - Carnaval</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 204, 204);"&gt;Elena decided to go to a church activity in Santa Monica California called&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.carnaval.com/cityguides/neworleans/mardigras.htm" class="l" style="color: rgb(34, 0, 193); cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="cursor: pointer;"&gt;New Orleans Mardi Gras -&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="cursor: pointer;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;em style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; color: rgb(34, 0, 193); cursor: pointer;"&gt;Carnaval&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;. &lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 255);"&gt;It was interesting for Elena to figure  out how an LDS activity was name after a carnival where modesty and good behavior have no room.   Elena decided to go because she thought it was going to be fun, but as the night began she understood that it was just another activity; as she came home, she understood one thing. She understood that in this world happiness it is not being in an activity with tons of friends, happiness is being at piece with our own selfs and knowing that we are right with deity.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5319846570117052607-8639110913785636296?l=writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/feeds/8639110913785636296/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5319846570117052607&amp;postID=8639110913785636296' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/8639110913785636296'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/8639110913785636296'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-orleans-mardi-gras-carnaval.html' title='New Orleans Mardi Gras - Carnaval'/><author><name>Bess</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08926108073527823248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319846570117052607.post-5051038789102268848</id><published>2011-02-19T12:30:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-02-19T12:36:15.871-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A new start</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;After a long time of not writing I finally decided to begging writing. So I will try hard to at least write an story a week, it might be fiction or none fiction. I don't know. And most of it will be base on personal experience. Let see if I could pool this out and eventually this blog might be the beginning of my book.  Which I will title ????? I don't know yet. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5319846570117052607-5051038789102268848?l=writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/feeds/5051038789102268848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5319846570117052607&amp;postID=5051038789102268848' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/5051038789102268848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/5051038789102268848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-start.html' title='A new start'/><author><name>Bess</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08926108073527823248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5319846570117052607.post-185688567522436211</id><published>2008-11-10T14:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-10T14:11:37.384-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='My first writing piece'/><title type='text'>A cool day in November</title><content type='html'>What can I say or write to let my skill flow?&lt;br /&gt;what can I do to let this little hope fly?&lt;br /&gt;I want to write, I need to write , so I can pass my &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;WEP&lt;/span&gt; test and Literature class&lt;br /&gt;K Chopin, and other authors I have read, and now I am seeking for my own adventure.&lt;br /&gt;I don't want to be another writer, and want want to be an artist,  laying words in a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;beautiful&lt;/span&gt; matter with out fragments or grammar errors.   And inside my wishful heart I feel that that will need a &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;miracle&lt;/span&gt;. I believe in &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;miracles&lt;/span&gt;. And I hope to keep hoping for the magic of writing never to go away. Words are beautiful.&lt;br /&gt;-Bess&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5319846570117052607-185688567522436211?l=writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/feeds/185688567522436211/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5319846570117052607&amp;postID=185688567522436211' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/185688567522436211'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5319846570117052607/posts/default/185688567522436211'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://writingforfun-bess.blogspot.com/2008/11/cool-day-in-november.html' title='A cool day in November'/><author><name>Bess</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/08926108073527823248</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
