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Great! An excuse to put off writing the “Canada” story! The dice were kind to me–-the hippie girl in 1603 would have been a lot harder. How’s this? *** Ted backed out of the grocery, grasping a paper bag with one hand and his daughter’s smaller hand with the other. He paused on the sidewalk, trying ...

Thanks so much, Jan, for your kind words about my poem. In answer to your question... I started mulling over the idea on Sunday evening, so that when I sat down to write it yesterday afternoon, I had all but the last two lines. I finished it when I got home from choir rehearsal last night. Thinking ...

It’s been a long time since I made a serious attempt to write a rhyming poem. I can honestly say I don’t think I’ve ever attempted this rhyme scheme (a relatively simple one, I realize!), so here goes: Mere notes upon the page are mute Without a master’s art to bring To life the lifeless stroke of p...

Since the discussion began last week, I’ve become more aware of how I use repetition in my writing–not only in fiction, but also in non-fiction. I tend to be a method/order/structure sort of writer, so parallelism and repetition come naturally to me. Here’s an example from what I wrote when I had th...