Let’s Compare Apples and Oranges: Tuesday Tryouts
7:39 a.m. — Atlanta listening to Ally Ally Oxen Free by the Kingston Trio… that takes some of you back, doesn’t it? Hello, all. I hope our New Yorkers and New Jersey Shorers are hanging in. It was good...
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7:26 a.m. — Atlanta listening to Little Darling by The Diamonds Hi, everyone. We have another prose/fiction/narrative exercise [i.e. not poetry]. This is an interesting one that could result in some...
View ArticlePoem Tryouts: Narrative Consciousness
7:41 a.m. — Atlanta listening to The Beatles singing Get Back Hello, all. Here we go with this week’s narrative exercise. As prose writers you need to be aware of the effect of the narrator, point of...
View ArticlePoetics Serendipity: Meet Freytag
8:03 a.m. — Atlanta listening to Light My Fire sung by Jose Feliciano Hullo, all. Ready for some discourse? Grab your coffee mug. I am going to go on the assumption no one has heard of Mr. Freytag, or...
View ArticlePoem Tryouts: Then What?
8:25 a.m. — Atlanta listening to Ravel’s Bolero — I had forgotten how much I love it Brrr. Hello, all. Maybe, if we exercise our brain cells we can warm up a little. I mentioned last week that I spend...
View ArticlePoetics Serendipity: NaNoWriMo I
8:23 a.m. — Atlanta listening to Pentatonix singing Say Something Hello, all. Today I am going to talk to you for a bit on some random considerations to do with plot and then provide a couple of links...
View ArticlePoem Tryouts: Rashomon
8:14 a.m. — Atlanta listening to Run by Snow Patrol Hello, everyone. Another gorgeous day outside. There are rumours of an early snowstorm in the Midwest which will bring our temperatures plunging by...
View ArticlePoetics Serendipity: Fiction Lies
8:30 a.m. — Atlanta listening to The Mamas and The Papas singing Dancing Bear — a lesser known, beautiful song Hello, all. When talking with writers, I have noticed a squeamishness about altering...
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