Although I love poetic language — the language of the abstract, the unspoken, of simile and metaphor — I don’t often try my hand at poetry. But one day as I entered a wooded glade, the poetic muse struck. I sat on a bench, took out my pencil and paper, and let that rare muse [...]
April 1st, 2009
Jumping Jacks for Writers
Like most writers, I dread the blank page. Some particularly nasty blank pages have stared at me for hours while my brain slowly disintegrated. Yet, like diarrhea after a double dose of Ex-Lax, a blank page is, alas, unavoidable. After all, every printed page in existence was, at one time, nastily blank.
Enter jumping jacks for [...]
March 6th, 2009
Prose & Prattle
Welcome to “Prose & Prattle!” Use this forum to post your own literary work, whether it’s a poem, a paragraph, a short story, or whatever. (Please try to keep it under 500 words. For ages 0 to 99.) Let the muse begin!
