Galway Kinnell died yesterday at 87. He was old enough to be my father (in fact, my father is a year older), but that's not why I'll miss him ( Read more... )

Last week I sweated over a synopsis for my StT. I'm reasonably content with the result, I think, but like many of us I find writing the synopsis for a novel as tough, if not tougher, than writing the novel itself. This afternoon @Beth_Barany on Twitter inspired me to write this. If you've written a synopsis, this one's for you.

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Metaphor

It doesn't matter how I try, my feet
resist, and will not keep a steady beat--
they trip and tumble
or lurch and stumble,
although I will persist, in case by chance
the rhythms smooth so I can start to dance.

--Katherine Quimby Johnson. All rights reserved.
 If I did what I think I did, this poem should make you smile.

I've been thinking in iambs ( Read more... )

Kristy Dempsey's post today inspired me--

For National Poetry Month, why not a poem a day?

I've been reading a lot: Poemcrazy: Freeing Your Life with Words (Susan D. Wooldridge) , The Rhythm Method, Razzmatazz, and Memory (Keith Flynn), and The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within (Stephen Fry), because of "The Grove" and another project I' ( Read more... )

I finished my quick-turn-around job earlier this afternoon and had a couple hours extra. I could have, and maybe should have, worked on my wip, but my thoughts were on Veterans Day. So I spent the time writing  a series of occasional poems.

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You know the scene in Lord of the Rings when Gandalf into the flaming chasm with the Balrog? You know the expression on Frodo and Bilbo and Aragorn's faces--that's how I looked about four hours ago, when the chapter I had worked on yesterday and for several hours this afternoon somehow suddenly

DISAPPEARED

Gone. Zip. Nada. Bubkis. Null. 
Cyberspace ( Read more... )

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At the end of a day of writing ( Read more... )

I got the blues ( Read more... )