I found out a friend, who wrote her first screenplay and entered the Cinequest Screenwriting competition, was picked as one of 37 semi-finalists out of a field of 271.

She received feedback on her screenplay, and is now busily rewriting her movie.

I need to think about entering my screenplay in some competition.

There was another friend of mine who entered his screenplay into another contest last year, and was picked as one of 45 first round finalists out of 550 submittted. His screenplay wasn't even that great, and he got picked.

Part 2 - The Screenwriting Panel - The ideas are out there, and anyone can access them.

There was another woman there sitting on the other screenwriting panel whom I'd met at other screenwriting functions. I asked her about her screenplay which she was working on last year. She said it had been produced and I was like WOW! I congratulated her, and then she said "No, I didn't sell my screenplay."

When I asked her what she meant she said that another movie had come out this year with her same title "Cowboy Up", and pretty much her plot. The movie starred Keifer Sutherland.

I was dumbfounded and expressed as much to her, and she said it happens all the time. You get an idea for a story, and then you see it published or made into a movie. She said, "the ideas are out there for anyone to make into a story and sometimes somebody else beats you to it."

My screenwriting colleague wasn't fazed. She was already at work on another screenplay, that she's planning to direct herself. One of her previous films was chosen for the Sundance Film Festival, and one of her documentaries was shown at the Orinda Film Festival and the Los Angeles Film Festival.

Trippy! But maybe not. That screenwriting teacher I took a seminar from a couple of months ago who sold his San Francisco 1906 earthquake screenplay, said that there were other earthquake screenplays in various stages of deals and development in Hollywood. Those other earthquake screenplays were all dropped by Hollywood in favour of his 1906 movie.

It's kind of cool to think that there might be some kind of creative stream that writers can all access, because this means that practically anyone has the chance to make it as a writer.

The downside to everyone having access to this creative stream, is you can work for months and months on your story only to see a similar story published or made into movie by someone else.

From Sean David Morton, TWELVE-CHAKRA WING ACTIVATION

This is a means of re-energizing the dormant energy fields of the body, including the rarely discussed 11th and 12th chakras, and also of igniting the long-dormant Wing Chakras in the back.

People get elves and fairies confused all the time. Elves have no wings, and they're not tiny. The idea of the wings come from the activation of the wing chakras, but elves had no need for wings to fly since they could astral travel. The average elf height was 5 ft to 6 ft. They were short compared to humans, who at the time the elf population was fully alive, were 9 feet and up.

Elves also have some kind extra bone on the sides of their body that connected the hips to the shoulder.

Some sort of cataclysm happened during the time of Atlantis where the human race had to repopulated. The new humans were shorter, more fragile.

All the otherkin races were wiped out, although I think some exist in spirit form all over the world. The present day stories and legends come from the spirit of the otherkin races, but the memories of their former kingdoms were wiped out.