ellen_kushner wrote on Facebook: "Don't slow things down with explanations now."
-- line from a sonnet? or just good advice as I draft the opening chapters of my new novel proposal? #amwriting #amsharing #process

I didn’t write a sonnet but I did write a poem.

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I am having a Week and need distraction, so here we go again. For those who weren't around last round (it's been a while), it is just like Iron Author, except I reserve the right to flake ( Read more... )

Arisia has inspired my dormant inner filker. Here's one about Paolo Bacigalupi's Ship Breaker. Mild, cryptic spoilers.
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I'm not really here (don't have my repaired lap top back yet and don't have time to read LJ from work) but... The title of this blog post kept sounding like a poem to me, so finally I wrote it:

We will measure our loss

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My own crack at filking Cotton Mill Girls

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( They call her Penny Candy )

I seem to be very into taking a bunch of fairytales with a theme in common and smushing them together lately. Today is fabric.

The Spinster’s Tale

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I wrote this poem in Seanan's journal comments ages ago and somehow forgot to put it here where I could find it. She'd actually asked for a 6 word autobiography, and got a six word per line autobiographical poem instead. It needs a title. And there's a couple places where I have the original version stuck in my head but it doesn't clump in sixes, ( Read more... )

I am looking for a poem about kindness for unkind people
By an unkind person, someone who understands that it is neither easy
Nor always desirable, but only sometimes and nevertheless necessary,
The usual lumpy collection of congealed feather pillows and old knives,
Not as sharp as they'd like to be, or as soft either,
Never sure which should be applied ( Read more... )

Want to write, not up for anything big and serious. Give me prompts and I will write you things in the comments. Unless I flake, which is why this is called Aluminum Author and not Iron Author like normal people do.

Original fic, poetry (if you want obscure forms, please link to an explanation thereof), wordy song lyrics all on offer.

The fanfic ( Read more... )