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week and then spaced posting them yesterday, sorry. 2019 Planner May Week Five Last Week I finally typed up the ten unpublished poems from NaPoWriMo.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”
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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 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”
W is for wamble- Poem: You Come in the Evening
Today’s new word: wamble v. 1. to move unsteadily. 2. to feel nausea. 3. (of the stomach) to rumble; growl. n. 1. an unsteady or rolling movement. 2. a feeling of nausea. National Poetry Writing Month prompt: Write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a word, or phrase. You can even repeat anContinue reading “W is for wamble- Poem: You Come in the Evening”
V is for green: virid, verdant, veridian, verdigris, verdure, vert Poem: Verdant Exile
Today’s new word: There are so many great V words. I may have some fun today along the lines of Margaret Atwood’s A Trio of Tolerable Tales and THE SESAME STREET LIBRARY and write a story about Vesicant Veronica’s vitriolic vitrifaction or Vespoid Vernon’s vespiary. For the present poetry purposes, however, I’ve stuck toContinue reading “V is for green: virid, verdant, veridian, verdigris, verdure, vert Poem: Verdant Exile”
U is for ultradian- Poem: Complete SCAMPER
Today’s new word: ultradian adj. Physiology (of a rhythm or cycle) having a period of recurrence shorter than a day but longer than an hour. National Poetry Writing Month prompt: Write a poem that, like “Dictionary Illustrations,” is inspired by a reference book. Locate a dictionary, thesaurus, or encyclopedia, open it at random, and considerContinue reading “U is for ultradian- Poem: Complete SCAMPER”
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