Midnight margaritas
I want some Vaqueros, I'm craving it. Guacamole salad and a margarita-- delicious!!
I asked my Poetry teacher for some advice with my exploded sonnet, since I'm hung up on the last lines. She was pleased with the drastic revision, and really liked the text lingo and all that. Line thirteen needs some reworking, which she suggested to me, and I agree. Hurray for a second opinion.
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Homework time. Brit Lit paper, American Lit, Brit Lit readings.
And then sleep, sleep, sleep.
What I have so far for the Brit Lit paper: The sonnet, clarihews and a "Rules for Literature" ... Half done!
Beware of the Dog Lady
Beware of the Dog Lady on her isle
in Lake Erie, just south of Lotus Bay.
She walks the country roads every night while
the moon shines its opaque, nocturnal rays.
Her hungry hounds claimed her tongue as their own
and an eye. Half blind, she groans as she takes
her boat ashore, seeking out those who moan
on the curved bay leading to Lover's Lane.
When she finds entranced lovers on her walk
hidden by the wearisome willow trees
she attacks, longing for a tongue that talks.
Windows and doors fall from their car like leaves
The Lady feasts upon the eager mouths,
under the moon, of the two broken youths.
Why Frankenstein's Bride Was a Dead Chick
Shelly, Shelly, Mary Shelley,
I'm sure the monster Frankenstein was smelly
and with bolts in his neck and stitches here and there
it's a wonder ladies didn't love him everywhere!
That'd put Miss Elizabeth Bennet at a loss for words
During her life, Jane Austen locked herself up in her room,
never married, and was never considered "va-va-voom."
Imagine if she were alive today in a sassy, low cut dress, on MTV,
draped in diamonds at the Oscars on the arm of Mr. Darcy.
To Be Considered While Writing
The Purpose of a Work:
A work of fiction should motivate and stimulate the reader to think or act in a different way than what they are accustomed to.
Ideally, the thoughts and actions should not lead to destruction of any kind, and should encourage the expanding upon existing ideas or practices.
Stimulation coupled with motivation should promote creation of good and new things. This should occur through the careful selection of images, sounds and descriptions of other sensations, including the internal sense-- the persuasion of heart.
Motivation and stimulation should not feel to the reader that it is being forced upon them in a unreasonable or unacceptable manner. Too much stimulation is overwhelming, and too much motivation may cause a great burden.
It should feel genuine.
Ideally, the reader should feel as though their change in thought or action was their idea.
In the Shaping of a Work:
The author may use any means necessary in plot, setting and character to fulfill the purpose of the work as long as the reader may clearly relate to it, and more importantly understand it. In order to do so, the author must carefully give detail to the settings, characters and the laws of the created world of the work.
In the creation of new worlds, it is the author's responsibility to shape the world, to give foundation to laws of that world and to subtlety show how the created world and the actual world parallel. This parallelness and the resolutions of plot should give ample examples to the reader as to how situations in their lives may be resolved.
No laws of the created world may be broken within the work. There is no exception, not even for shock-factor or a 'great Hollywood ending'. Ensuring that the laws are obeyed gives the work credibility to the reader.
Under no circumstances should the work: ridicule, discredit or undermine the entirety of the work or any of the aspects of it. Destroying the foundation of the work negates the actions of/within the work. Negating the actions of/within the work negates the purpose of the work.
A work without purpose leaves simple entertainment.
Simple entertainment dulls the senses, it does not motivate.
I asked my Poetry teacher for some advice with my exploded sonnet, since I'm hung up on the last lines. She was pleased with the drastic revision, and really liked the text lingo and all that. Line thirteen needs some reworking, which she suggested to me, and I agree. Hurray for a second opinion.
...
Homework time. Brit Lit paper, American Lit, Brit Lit readings.
And then sleep, sleep, sleep.
What I have so far for the Brit Lit paper: The sonnet, clarihews and a "Rules for Literature" ... Half done!
Beware of the Dog Lady
Beware of the Dog Lady on her isle
in Lake Erie, just south of Lotus Bay.
She walks the country roads every night while
the moon shines its opaque, nocturnal rays.
Her hungry hounds claimed her tongue as their own
and an eye. Half blind, she groans as she takes
her boat ashore, seeking out those who moan
on the curved bay leading to Lover's Lane.
When she finds entranced lovers on her walk
hidden by the wearisome willow trees
she attacks, longing for a tongue that talks.
Windows and doors fall from their car like leaves
The Lady feasts upon the eager mouths,
under the moon, of the two broken youths.
Why Frankenstein's Bride Was a Dead Chick
Shelly, Shelly, Mary Shelley,
I'm sure the monster Frankenstein was smelly
and with bolts in his neck and stitches here and there
it's a wonder ladies didn't love him everywhere!
That'd put Miss Elizabeth Bennet at a loss for words
During her life, Jane Austen locked herself up in her room,
never married, and was never considered "va-va-voom."
Imagine if she were alive today in a sassy, low cut dress, on MTV,
draped in diamonds at the Oscars on the arm of Mr. Darcy.
To Be Considered While Writing
The Purpose of a Work:
A work of fiction should motivate and stimulate the reader to think or act in a different way than what they are accustomed to.
Ideally, the thoughts and actions should not lead to destruction of any kind, and should encourage the expanding upon existing ideas or practices.
Stimulation coupled with motivation should promote creation of good and new things. This should occur through the careful selection of images, sounds and descriptions of other sensations, including the internal sense-- the persuasion of heart.
Motivation and stimulation should not feel to the reader that it is being forced upon them in a unreasonable or unacceptable manner. Too much stimulation is overwhelming, and too much motivation may cause a great burden.
It should feel genuine.
Ideally, the reader should feel as though their change in thought or action was their idea.
In the Shaping of a Work:
The author may use any means necessary in plot, setting and character to fulfill the purpose of the work as long as the reader may clearly relate to it, and more importantly understand it. In order to do so, the author must carefully give detail to the settings, characters and the laws of the created world of the work.
In the creation of new worlds, it is the author's responsibility to shape the world, to give foundation to laws of that world and to subtlety show how the created world and the actual world parallel. This parallelness and the resolutions of plot should give ample examples to the reader as to how situations in their lives may be resolved.
No laws of the created world may be broken within the work. There is no exception, not even for shock-factor or a 'great Hollywood ending'. Ensuring that the laws are obeyed gives the work credibility to the reader.
Under no circumstances should the work: ridicule, discredit or undermine the entirety of the work or any of the aspects of it. Destroying the foundation of the work negates the actions of/within the work. Negating the actions of/within the work negates the purpose of the work.
A work without purpose leaves simple entertainment.
Simple entertainment dulls the senses, it does not motivate.