So here we are. June is upon us. We’re looking at the midpoint of the year and the days keep flying by. How are your submissions going? Are you finding ways to use the daily planner to stay motivated? Last week I admitted I was having trouble submitting and hoped that I would find thatContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: A New Month Begins”
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The Planner Experiment: Final Week of May and Finding Poetry
I prepared the pages early this week and then spaced posting them yesterday, sorry. 2019 Planner May Week Five Last Week I finally typed up the ten unpublished poems from NaPoWriMo. I’m letting them sit a bit before I edit them. At the moment I’m not as excited about them as I had hoped toContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: Final Week of May and Finding Poetry”
The Planner Experiment: May Week Four
Most of this week’s magazine submission ideas came from New Pages. New Pages Call for Submissions pages can let you know about brand new magazines and other interesting markets. It can be fun to be one of the first writer’s published in a magazine. I’m excited about Alien Magazine, a new literary magazine coming outContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week Four”
The Planner Experiment: May Week Three – New idea for writing prompts
Finding writing prompts in old movies The other day, while thinking about which classic monster I wanted to put in space for the Monsters in Space anthology, I remembered I have a copy of Little Shop of Horrors, the black and white, non-musical with Jack Nicholson. I also needed to come up with some writingContinue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week Three – New idea for writing prompts”
Creative Writing for the WWE
Last month, during NaPoWriMo and A to Z Challenge, my word for the letter k was kayfabe. Kayfabe is a word used in professional wrestling for presenting staged performances as genuine or authentic. Imagine my surprise when I found this great video introducing people to the lives of the creative writers working for the WWE.Continue reading “Creative Writing for the WWE”
The Planner Experiment: May Week 2
My new focus on contests brought me to something fun. Literary Taxidermy is having a contest in which participants write a story that starts and ends with lines from a selected work. This year’s selection is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. The idea of the contest is to start with the first line of Mr.Continue reading “The Planner Experiment: May Week 2”
The Planner Project Continues into May
2019 Planner May Week One The Experiment For readers who are new to Experience Writing, thank you for being here. These free daily planner pages are part of an experiment I started at the beginning of the year. I wanted to get ahead of the submissions game and know about deadlines in advance, so IContinue reading “The Planner Project Continues into May”
Z is for zeugma- Poems: Dive in, Creative and Zeugma
Today’s new word: zeugma n. Grammar, Rhetoric. the use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three troutContinue reading “Z is for zeugma- Poems: Dive in, Creative and Zeugma”
Y is for yapok- Poem: Hagridden Again
Today’s new word: yapok n. a semi-aquatic opossum of Central and South America also known as the water opossum. The only living marsupial in which both sexes have pouches. National Poetry Writing Month prompt: Write a poem that meditates, from a position of tranquility, on an emotion you have felt powerfully. Writer’s Digest April PADContinue reading “Y is for yapok- Poem: Hagridden Again”
X is for xenium- Poem: Inward and Outward
Today’s new word: xenium (plural xenia) n. a present, gift, especially one for a host or vice-versa. a compulsory gift. National Poetry Writing Month prompt: “Remix” a Shakespearean sonnet. Here’s all of Shakespeare’s sonnets. You can pick a line you like and use it as the genesis for a new poem. Or make a “wordContinue reading “X is for xenium- Poem: Inward and Outward”
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