Tracy ,'The Message'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Allyson, do you have a piece that serves as a real companion to your Safe Harbor from Ann Arbor piece? A full flesh out of your Escape to L.A.?
Because I've found myself wondering about that. It shows up in drips and dabs in other essays, but I still want to know how you did it.
Seconded.
New drabble topic!
Challenge #111 (comfort food) is now closed.
Challenge #112 is poetry. I *don't* mean that you should write a poem (though you may) -- rather, drabble *about* poetry, for whatever definition(s) of "poetry" you might embrace.
Daffynition
Words in heady mixtures
worth a thousand pictures.
In small , a whole world explore,
Or what else is a meta for?
Art for art’s sake: ignore the reader?
No, for heard melodies are sweeter.
Else as you fill up your reams,
Each strangled melody silently screams
As it rots inside the drawer
never to see a different shore.
Speak or whisper, murmur or shout
Flame, ice, peat, or winds pout
All of this in one endeavor
Glimpsed for an instant, then captured forever
True story:
META/CHIRP
"Nicky said what?"
"That I can't be a poet without writing an ode to a skylark." I'm shopping with Kate, in Sausalito. "Bastard."
"I know that look." Kate's grinning. "Spill!"
"Harken, skylark in the tree", I recite. "Singing there so loud and free
singing as I mutter 'DIRTY
FRICKIN' BIRD, it's 7:30!
I did not get HOME 'til 3!'"
"HA!" Kate's snickering. "Perfect!"
"There's more." I'm grinning back. "Wanna hear?"
"Hell yes."
"Harken, skylark in the tree
singing there so loud and free
singing loud as any sparrow
I will shoot you with my arrow
then, perhaps, will silence be!"
possible responses do daffyntion:
"Yup that was a hundred words all right."
"That is definitely a drabble."
"The title is nicely centered at the top of the post"
t Crickets
That's fun Deborah.
Hey, did you write that just now, or have you had it, TB?
Just now. It is easy to write poetry quickly when you have exactly zero talent as a poet, cause there is no point in trying to make it something great.
Typo and I share thoughts on writing poetry.
And we didn't even know it. Tee.
Challenge #111 (comfort food) is now closed.
Catching up too late after hectic weekend. I was sorry to see no one followed up on the suggestion over in Natter to write a "Comfort Food" drabble on frozen-peas-as-icepack. I thought it was a great twist on the topic, and it made me laugh.