The Great Write Way, Chapter Two: Twice upon a time...
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Daffynition
Images swirling
Thoughts unfurling
Rhythm flowing
Cadence growing
Emotions singing,
echoing, ringing
Symbols layered
clashing, wayward.
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
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.
How about one on romantic relationships that came out of fandom--people who met specifically through fandom and fell in love. Do Nora and Tom count?
Yeah, they met at one of the first Somervillain F2F's.
As to the rest, I'd be willing to bet you can make up a significant amount of words just going back and adding detail. If you can't find an extra 1,000 words of description back there, in small little snippets, I'd be amazed. (I think I made up, like, an extra 3,000 on this when writing Nihilist Chic.)
Put it in the drawer for a day or two. Try your best not to think about it, and then read it all over from the beginning. As you're reading, just let yourself think back to all the stuff that made you want to write this in the first palce. Another anecdote here, another example there. You'll find it all.
Looks like my article about "House, MD" is gonna be published(or at least I got a contract.)
Have to thank Anne again.
Thanks, bunk, for the inspiration,
