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- Tue Feb 02, 2010 7:11 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #3: Choosing a Tense and Sticking to It
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- Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:06 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Writing Basics #3: Choosing a Tense and Sticking to It
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- Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:09 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's New "Class"--Writing Basics
- Replies: 115
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Jan, A few things struck me as I read what has already been posted. 1) Most passages had a lot of salsa words compared to your two examples. Sometimes less is more. 2) The same salsa word principle should work for non-fiction. 3) Sometimes what we really have is a salsa phrase, made up of words that...
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:47 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--Villanelle
- Replies: 23
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Jan, you mentioned a class or two ago that you wondered whether you were making things too hard since there weren't that many submissions for some of the forms. My response was that I thought you were explaining things very clearly. I still think that, but some of the forms THEMSELVES are just hard....
- Fri Dec 04, 2009 7:41 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: I could use some pointers please!
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- Fri Dec 04, 2009 3:06 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: I could use some pointers please!
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- Fri Dec 04, 2009 1:15 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: I could use some pointers please!
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Cat, Assuming (as I think your question implies) that you want to write anything other than free verse and assuming our judges know how to evaluate poetry (no offense to any judges, but you are anonymous and rotate, and I just don’t know anything about all ya’ll’s background with poetry), I can give...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:58 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--TRIOLET
- Replies: 58
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This is the first one that's even slightly tricky, especially to poetry beginners. Maybe I've made it too challenging? Or it could be the NaNo pressure. I think you explained it very clearly. Could be NaNo or the form itself. Or maybe people are struggling with Yellow. Maybe we'll get more after to...
- Wed Nov 18, 2009 9:43 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--TRIOLET
- Replies: 58
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Did you take “willing” to mean “agreeable” or “exerting the will” or one of each? One of each, I think. Any other takers before I reveal the answer? OK, long enough. It was a trick question. They were both intended to be diberate double entendres/ambiguities for the reader. By the way, is it my ima...
- Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:40 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--TRIOLET
- Replies: 58
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Did you take “willing” to mean “agreeable” or “exerting the will” or one of each? One of each, I think. Any other takers before I reveal the answer? And as to your bigger question--I'd love to have a discussion on that. I think poetry (and anything we write, really) belongs to the reader, as soon a...
- Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:01 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--TRIOLET
- Replies: 58
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Steve! It's so deep, so meaningful, so profound! I'm not sure I've even come close to grasping all the spiritual and emotional remifications. I'll have to mull it over for a while. Okay, done mulling. It seems to me that this form lends itself to reflective/melancholy poetry... though others (most ...
- Mon Nov 16, 2009 8:37 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--TRIOLET
- Replies: 58
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Hope to see another one from you here, some time this week! You asked for it! All I Need to Write a Triolet I have a first line. It's called A. And a second line. It's called B My pesky first line won't go away. I have a first line. It's called A: For lines four and seven just say One again. That's...
- Mon Nov 16, 2009 1:05 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--TRIOLET
- Replies: 58
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Ah, poetry for lunch. Here’s the SUPPOSED Triolet from my Summer piece that I’ve directed folks to before: The fireflies do dance and dart! They glow and fade, now here, now there. In imitation play the part The fireflies do. Dance and dart Around the yard as through the air The fireflies do dance a...
- Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:41 am
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--TRIOLET
- Replies: 58
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Re: Jan's Poetry Class--TRIOLET
Caesura (plural: caesuras or caesurae).glorybee wrote:Her meter’s a little bit trickier; she’s got those ‘stops’ in there (I forgot what you call ‘em…Steve? Steve?),
- Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:33 pm
- Forum: Jan's Writing Basics
- Topic: Jan's Poetry Class--ACROSTIC
- Replies: 36
- Views: 46274