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For the Origins Blogfest, we’re supposed to chronicle our earliest remembrances of our writing superpowers…okay, maybe not superpowers, as you’ll quickly find out below. As you can tell from my monkey bar photo above, I had a highly cerebral childhood! Seriously, though, I was ambidextrous till K-4 (they made me choose), I read a LOT, and I liked phonics. This… Read More
For fun, I decided to flex my poem-writing muscles over on the Writer’s Digest blog (link down on the right, just look up poetic asides–tritenas). They were practicing tritinas, in which the last word of the poem lines go in this order: ABC CAB BCA (Last line uses ABC in any order). So here’s a little ditty I whipped up…. Read More
here’s a fun little poem about the depths a writer feels when agents/publishers don’t like their work. a little rhyme-y, but it was the mood i was in… UPON ANOTHER BOOK REJECTION: There is no beauty in despairI am thwarted everywhere.What I want to do, I can’t, I won’t.What others think about me, don’t. All around this big green earthI… Read More