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Memoirs of a Shark
CHALLENGE I decided to participate in this week’s dVerse challenge. The prompt is SHARKS. I’m a few days late, but I thought I would go ahead and post on my blog. In honor of Shark Week, I wrote a poem. I never watched the entire movie JAWS. I left the room once I saw that Huge shark. Shark Week is an…
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Let’s Go To The Museum: Apollinaire and His Friends
Marie Laurencin, 1909, Réunion à la campagne (Apollinaire et ses amis), oil on canvas, 130 x 194 cm, Musée Picasso, Paris. Reproduced in The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations (1913) APOLLINAIRE AND HIS FRIENDS, MARIE LAURENCIN This month’s visit to the museum features a painting by French artist Marie Laurencin. Sorry that I haven’t been able to post any art writing challenges for awhile. I had…
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Review of Night’s Redemption by Stephen Bentley
Night’s Redemption: A Detective Matt Deal Thriller Book 5 Night’s Redemption tells the story of a small-town lawyer who risks everything to seek justice for an innocent man, like Atticus Finch in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Night’s Redemption is set in current-day Montana, whereas the setting of ‘Mockingbird’ is 1960s Alabama. Ignorance, fear, greed, and corruption are…
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Welcome to the “Poetry Treasures 5: Simple Pleasures” Book Blog Tour
WordCrafter Poetry Treasures 5: Small Pleasures Tour Banner Giveaway This tour we’re giving away digital copies of Poetry Treasures 5: Small Pleasures to three lucky winners. Follow the tour and comment at each stop, so we’ll know you were there. You’ll be entered for another chance in the giveaway at each stop. Winners are chosen through a random drawing by…
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Long Way From Home
Hi everyone! Today I thought I’d participate in Tanka Tuesday Challenge. It’s been awhile since I wrote a syllabic poem. Melissa from Mom With A Blog https://melissalemay.wordpress.com/ is host for this week’s challenge. Here are the guidelines. For this week’s Tanka Tuesday Challenge, I’d like us to write Double Ennead poems. The Double Ennead is a form created by our very…
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Winning and Losing Writing Competitions
Revised Originally published May 19, 2022 My favorite poet Emily Dickinson sent her poems to The Atlantic Monthly Magazine in 1862. Editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson promptly rejected them. Emily suffered deeply from the rejection. What did Emily do when she received the news that the editor was not interested in her writing? She wrote even more poems! Emily turned something negative…
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Winning and Losing Writing Competitions
Originally published May 19, 2022 My favorite poet Emily Dickinson sent her poems to The Atlantic Monthly Magazine in 1862. Editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson promptly rejected them. Emily suffered deeply from the rejection. What did Emily do when she received the news that the editor was not interested in her writing? She wrote even more poems! Emily turned something negative into…
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Literary Quotes-Who Said This?
“All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.” Ray Bradbury Born Ray Douglas Bradbury · August 22, 1920 · Waukegan, Illinois U.S. Died June 5, 2012 (aged 91) · Los Angeles, California U.S. Education Los Angeles…
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The Importance of Setting in a Story
Be A Better Writer I plan to write weekly posts about improving your writing. Using literary devices and knowing the parts of writing such as planning, organization, drafting, revising, editing and publishing are tools that you can use to create interesting and compelling stories. Today, I’m writing about Setting. But first I want to give you an overview of how…
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Literary Quotes-Who Said This?
Who Said This? In What Book Can You Find This Quote? Give this quote a glance to see if you have heard it before. The full poem is at the end of the post. When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of…
