I’m happy to announce my poem, “A Review of Wonderment,” is included in an anthology! The Auroras & Blossoms NaPoWriMo Anthology: 2020 Edition will be released as an e-book tomorrow (June 23). It includes poems written during National Poetry Writing Month (April) from 38 poets with a focus on positivity and inspiration. Give yourself, orContinue reading “NaPoWriMo 2020 Poetry Anthology Comes Out Tomorrow (and I’m in it)”
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A Morning Reading Great Poetry: Why don’t we tweet poetry books like TV shows or movies?
This morning, I enjoyed reading a lot of great poetry. As I read, I needed to write down at least one line from every page with fervent excitement. I wanted to share my joy with everyone. I thought, “why don’t people tweet poetry books the way they tweet TV shows and films?” Start them atContinue reading “A Morning Reading Great Poetry: Why don’t we tweet poetry books like TV shows or movies?”
How to make plotting your short story fun with Jason L. Blair’s Full Deck Roleplaying: A Scenario
If you haven’t read it yet, you’ll want to read through my last post about Setting and Characters, so this makes some sense. Okay, back to the action: Since Luchinda dressed for her character, the rest of us decided to dress up too. Woody wasn’t too excited when I handed him a cape and theContinue reading “How to make plotting your short story fun with Jason L. Blair’s Full Deck Roleplaying: A Scenario”
How to make plotting your short story fun with Jason L. Blair’s Full Deck Roleplaying: Setting & Characters
I’ve been talking a lot about poetry lately, but I’m also participating in The Writer’s Games. The challenge to write a short story to a prompt each weekend started two weeks ago. I’ll be getting a new prompt this evening. As I’ve mentioned in the past, I have found many fun plotting games and devicesContinue reading “How to make plotting your short story fun with Jason L. Blair’s Full Deck Roleplaying: Setting & Characters”
What color is your portal? Change it with online paint chips.
Yesterday I started a new Coursera course: Songwriting:Writing the Lyrics with Pat Pattison through Berklee College of Music. One of the first lessons conceptualized a song as three boxes, stacked with the smallest on top. The top box fitting inside the middle box and both fitting in the bottom box. He used this imagery asContinue reading “What color is your portal? Change it with online paint chips.”
Monday Quadrille – Mr. Fix-it
Since I finished my short story draft for the Writer’s Games and need to let it sit a bit before the final edit, I thought I would wander over to the dVerse Poets Pub where it’s Monday Quadrille day. Today’s word to put into my 44 word poem is “fix.” Mr. Fix-it He has alwaysContinue reading “Monday Quadrille – Mr. Fix-it”
Excavating the Mind Round 2: The poem, the sequential mass
I read across the yellowing paper under the burlap sack “Attraction Dear Reader Israel-Syria River Fastest Gun JFK To Head” across from these headlines the fuzzy blue face admires, casually aware of thumb tacks ironic placement comes to light, reminding me of cyclical efforts to tirelessly beckon sleep and the weight that killing germsContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2: The poem, the sequential mass”
Excavating the Mind Round 2: Taming through Framing
Yesterday, I missed the live broadcast of Rattle Magazine’s weekly critique video, but I watched it after. It was very informative. I found it fascinating how little of the original draft may be the real poem, the gold nuggets that can then be mined. I’m going to watch more of the critique videos before IContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2: Taming through Framing”
Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 5: Observing with American Sentences
Neighborhood trees are in cages; I throw meat at them, but they don’t move. I am working on a week long photography and poetry challenge inspired by a prompt from Poets & Writers called Excavating the Mind. Today’s Enrichment and Time Engulfer This morning, I was excited to see that one of my library digitalContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 5: Observing with American Sentences”
Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 4: Music’s Influence
I am working on a week long photography and poetry challenge inspired by a prompt from Poets & Writers called Excavating the Mind. Today’s Enrichment and Time Evaporator Nature Photography This morning I found some great nature photography posts to enjoy: CAS Big Picture Natural World Photography Competition Underwater Photographer of the year 2020 andContinue reading “Excavating the Mind Round 2 Day 4: Music’s Influence”
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