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- Fri Jul 29, 2016 9:51 am
- Forum: Challenge Entry Direct Links
- Topic: Share the Love by Leaving Feedback - Replaces Brick Throwing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 23094
Re: Due to Lack of Interest ...
I miss throwing bricks . . .
- Sun Mar 20, 2016 7:33 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Finger Pointing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 14356
Re: Finger Pointing
I love the practical "show us how" advice.
- Mon Nov 09, 2015 11:41 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--Formatting Poetry
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13968
Re: Be a Better Writer--Formatting Poetry
Thanks, Jan--and Leigh. I couldn't link to this little poem in FW, but I wanted to show some other reasons a poet might use in formatting to skip a line other than a stanza. In this one I wanted a pause for passage of time and for emotion. She Said She said: You can’t go there. You can’t wear that. ...
- Fri Sep 25, 2015 3:52 pm
- Forum: Rules, Ratings, Judges and Official Info
- Topic: Writing Challenge Feedback Reports and Rating Categories
- Replies: 23
- Views: 124384
Re: Writing Challenge Feedback Reports and Rating Categories
Thanks bunches!
- Thu Apr 16, 2015 3:04 pm
- Forum: Results and Highest Rankings
- Topic: Winners for IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL Challenge
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5717
Re: Winners for IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL Challenge
It was a week of wonderful entries. Congratulations to all the winners, with a special shout-out to my friend, Margaret. You go, Girl! Proud of you for being #1!
- Sat Apr 04, 2015 9:53 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--RESOURCES FOR THE WRITER
- Replies: 13
- Views: 21520
Re: Be a Better Writer--RESOURCES FOR THE WRITER
This is a great list. A book about writing that I like is WRITE YOUR heart OUT by Rebecca McClanahan. In her chapter about writing for the public eye, she has a question I think about often when I write: Why would anyone want to read this?
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:55 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--USING IMAGERY
- Replies: 50
- Views: 62404
Re: Be a Better Writer--USING IMAGERY
I wish I'd read your lesson before I sent this poem to a contest! It was written as seen through a car window. When I revise it, thought, I'll get out of the car and add some bird song and leaves crunching underfoot, as well as smells of the forest. Again, you are a valuable help to my writing!
- Mon Sep 15, 2014 1:34 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--USING IMAGERY
- Replies: 50
- Views: 62404
Re: Be a Better Writer--USING IMAGERY
Jan, I like your examples of imagery. Here's a pair from a poem I was working on this morning: The trees are colorful with the mountain behind them all black. Psychedelic images flash against Black serrated border. I would love to see a lesson on free verse. In a recent challenge, I entered a poem t...
- Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:11 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--BIOGRAPHY
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21428
Re: Be a Better Writer--BIOGRAPHY
Thanks, Jan, for your definitions. Obviously, much of my writing consists of first person narrative.
- Sat Aug 30, 2014 10:17 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--BIOGRAPHY
- Replies: 16
- Views: 21428
Re: Be a Better Writer--BIOGRAPHY
Jan, as I perused titles in challenges and in my poetry books, I was really surprised to see how much of my poetry is biographical or autobiographical, based on memories of people and events in my life. Some of it is true character description, and some of it is fictionalized accounting. For this ch...
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:57 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--TINY POEMS
- Replies: 17
- Views: 23654
Re: Be a Better Writer--TINY POEMS
jim--that's beautiful. I'm a fan of all your beautiful poetry!
- Sat Aug 23, 2014 11:39 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--TINY POEMS
- Replies: 17
- Views: 23654
Re: Be a Better Writer--TINY POEMS
Great little poems, Cat!
The election-year ads on TV
Are a wasteland of banality.
Of viewing we'll take us
A long-term hiatus
Till the swearing-in ceremony.
The election-year ads on TV
Are a wasteland of banality.
Of viewing we'll take us
A long-term hiatus
Till the swearing-in ceremony.
- Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:04 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--DEALING WITH NEGATIVE CRITIQUE
- Replies: 48
- Views: 62528
Re: Be a Better Writer--DEALING WITH NEGATIVE CRITIQUE
Jan, that's really a toughie for us thin-skinned ones. Your suggestions are good. I think I have used a number of them. I especially appreciate constructive criticism from someone who writes in my genre. (I do check them out on Faithwriters.) I have found that when someonel unfamiliar with poetry sa...
- Mon May 05, 2014 9:02 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--GIVING AND RECEIVING CRITIQUE
- Replies: 17
- Views: 26595
Re: Be a Better Writer--GIVING AND RECEIVING CRITIQUE
Jan, you've given some really good suggestions for ways to be specific in critiquing. For one of my early entries of poems, you commented that the meter was off. So--I went to work and learned meter. I studied great writers, including our own Kenn Allan, sat down with an English teacher friend, and ...
- Sun Jan 26, 2014 4:34 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Be a Better Writer--CREATIVITY
- Replies: 23
- Views: 53638
Re: Be a Better Writer--CREATIVITY
Thanks for the ideas.