Tag: library
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Intermission: Poetry by W.B Yeats
Pride and Prejudice reached a point of intermission for me to enjoy a night hour of poetry from Selected Poems by W.B.Yeats. Instead of writing a review, I will read to you my favorite poem from the collection that you may listen. I liked the cover photoed in this when I found the book at […]
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My Short Story Printed and Ready, and an Author from Mississipi
I had started writing my novel, which will be a longer length project, but I have been kind of following my desire and writing poems and this “gift” story in between. As I had written previously that I was writing a “secret story” to be given to someone as a gift at my family’s Christmas […]
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Poet Keith Waldrop, Postmodern poems, Fantasy and Modern Art
(this photo is from last year around this time; ‘my poetry cat’ Peeko was very pleased with this book.) Like poet Christina Rossetti, I found poet Keith Waldrop’s latest poetry book, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy last year just discovered by me on the poetry shelf at the Foxboro Library; I was delighted to find out […]
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My First Novel in Progress, Finding the Genre and Audience: YA Fantasy, and On ‘Point of View’
November 15, 2022, night I feel like I have more info now that my story completed could fit into the popular Fantasy genre for Young Adults. I wrote about 200 words tonight typed, and I am going to rest awhile at 2328 words total. 🙂 I read my typed draft, then I wrote at the […]
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NaNo More
I just got in from a walk a little while ago before I had lunch. It’s literary salon Tuesday :), I wrote more of my novel draft this morning; I find the Word Count actually is very helpful for pacing. In a long work of fiction, events can happen more slowly than one may be […]
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So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts
Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing […]
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NaNoWriMo…Which Fiction’s A Go?
NaNoWrimo stands for national novel writing month which takes place in November. Writers can choose to write short stories, essays, a novel, or poetry for the month. Apart from the official guidelines, I will “win” no matter the word count but will check word count a little further along, am mainly using the site to […]
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Stepping Into a Novel Set in 1000 AD Like I’m In It Already
June 13, 2022 A beautifully unfolding novel I find myself at ease in the place and am amused to find myself sharing so many interests with the characters in this historical novel (set in Scotland about 1000 years earlier than our current time): Queen Hereafter by Susan Fraser King. I share with the characters interests […]
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These Hands…
In the post, A Note Found and a Bookmark and A Great First Art Show, I’d found some surprise things inside books, like a handwritten paper, so I decided to make up my own writing prompt with an idea I’d had…Whether you try this imaginary exercise or another, these free writes can be plenty of […]
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A Flowing Poem, Picked from an Anthology: “Upon Julia’s Clothes” by Robert Herrick
A poem to enjoy from the second anthology I’d been reading through, The Norton Book of Light Verse edited by Russell Baker. UPON JULIA’S CLOTHES Whereas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, me thinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes! Next, when I cast mine eyes and see The brave vibration each […]
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From Love Sonnets of Proteus, poem by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I am reading through poetry in a pair of anthologies I’d found at the library…here’s one, the first in the book. * From Love Sonnets of Proteus by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt I see you, Juliet, still, with your straw hat Loaded with vines, and with your dear pale face, On which those thirty years so […]