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Writer's Block: More Island Time
Stranger in a Strange Land - Heinlein
All Creatures Great and Small - Herriot
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Watership Down - Adams
Clan of the Cave Bear - Auel -
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Testing something.
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I finally dusted off my old livejournal so I can post on other journals. I've cleared out a lot of entries, but I'm leaving in the pieces I wrote for my last creative writing course, so no, this isn't just a blank journal made by a troll. I just have more to say to other people than I have to say about myself. -
Another poem
This poem was written in response to the prompt, "Choose a poet who writes in a manner that is very different from yours and write a poem in that style." I chose Allen Ginsberg. He's a tough poet to mimic; if my poem doesn't revolt you or make you grimace at least once, I haven't written it brutally enough. That's his style though: hideous ( Read more... ) -
Poetry
Quick deal tonight... I'm posting a poem I wrote to be turned in tomorrow. Well, two actually ( Read more... ) -
"Dolosus Lupus Equidem"
I took three semesters of Latin in high school, so I'd hate to waste it. The title of my story means "A Sly Wolf Indeed." It's my fairy tale response. As planned, I based it on "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" and wrote it in first person. The hardest part, for me, was finding the voice of the wolf and writing the first line. I know I wanted my wolf ( Read more... ) -
To His Coy Mistress
I got back a recent homework assignment today. It's a poem in response to Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, in which a man tries to woo a young girl by telling her that life is short. It has the standard "carpe diem" message to it. Read the whole, original poem here. The assignment was to reply to the young man from the girl's point of view ( Read more... )