I find that in this stage of the "Serious Writing Life", if you want to call it that, (and by this I mean the life in which I am actually taking serious forward steps in the direction leading away from "aspiring" and toward "published" and possibly even "career"), I seem to be a bit bi-polar. I have noticed recently I tend to soar up on extreme happy-highs and get super pumped and inspired, and then in the very same day (often the same damn hour, really), I suddenly plummet into a frustrated ... View Post
Bait, Fish, and Reel Report for August 2013
And here we go again! Someone once said that to be a successful and productive writer, one had to do the equivalent of “cutting bait, fishing, and reeling ‘em in, all at the same time”! This translates to writing as working on projects-in-progress while at the same time submitting completed projects to potential markets and also continuing to cultivate new ideas for future projects. In case you missed my previous post on this subject, at the end of every month I compile a list of what I ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Humanity's Potential", a found poem.
Last week, I was clued in to the existence of the amazing tychogirl by way of the awesome Jumping From Cliffs. What I love about tychogirl's found poems is that she actually cuts and pastes the words onto gorgeous and relevant backgrounds, making the poems themselves doubly-incredible works of art. In addition, she writes poems about space. Um, brilliant! So, blatantly ripping a page from her book, I decided that this week's WPW post would feature 1) a poem dealing in some way with space ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Flock Mentality", a found poem.
Style: sociocultural psychic Paris and Notre Dame cobbled streets in pencil skirts and blouses six-inch platform wedges or maybe just Keds France and Rome clever scarf-tying a casually knotted kerchief from Hermes Girl Scout troop leader or paragon of chic? Dutch and Bhutanese we are trucking in sartorial and nationalistic cliché boys in knickers and wooden shoes folks from other places all looked universal distinctive superficial in time-tested uniforms of subtly-coded flock ... View Post
Belated Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Tides", a poem.
Written 8.8.13. Inspired by my recent trip to the east coast, during which I spent many days on various beaches (and one day on a whale watch), and loved every second. *** I stand atop a granite peak the ocean at my feet white sails on the horizon white wings across the sky with sun on my skin I watch the tide as it comes in with wind and salt in my hair I watch the tide as it goes out. I stand at the prow of a ship cleaving through the sea white plumes of whale breath on the horizon white ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: "Chase the Sun", a poem.
On a 5:50am flight this morning, we had the pleasure of rising above the clouds just in time for the sunrise, which was particularly spectacular from our vantage point and the cover of clouds below. I was unable to get a picture of it, so I wrote a poem instead. Here is my attempt at capturing the amazingness of this experience.... *** a horizon of lavender clouds brushes a blushing dawn a sky colored with sherberts stretching into a clear, hard blue the color of Caribbean waves the ... View Post
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