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Tuesday Tryout: 8×10
9:32 am, Tuesday, 11 January, 2011 – Atlanta 8×10 Make three columns. In the first column jot down ten verbs whose SOUND you like; in the second column, list ten nouns whose SOUND you like; and in the...
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Tuesday Tryouts: Shall I Compare Thee?
8:35 am, Tuesday, 18 January, 2011 – Atlanta I might, to answer my title’s question but first we have to build a resource pool, so we will start with several freewrites. When I sorted through my...
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Tuesday Tryouts: Metaphor This
8:12 am, Tuesday 1 February, 2011 – Atlanta Hello! I hope everyone had a good weekend. I am recovering from visitors. They were less exhausting in my youth. Today’s exercise is a lot of fun and I...
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Tuesday Tryouts: More Than a Comparison
8:20 am, Tuesday, 8 February, 2011 – Atlanta Today, I would like you to do two final metaphors and, for the purpose of Thursday’s discussion of parts of speech, turn one of these pieces into a poem...
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Tuesday Tryouts: Your Metaphor
9:05, Tuesday – Atlanta I was going to start a new series of exercises with dialogue poems, but wrote a metaphor poem last week, in response to a We Write Poems prompt, that I enjoyed so much and feel...
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Thursday Thoughts: It’s All About the Nouns
8:12 am, Thursday — Atlanta Good Day to all. If you remember, last Thursday I set an exercise to prove a point about the strength of nouns in writing. In case you haven’t read last Thursday, here it...
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Thursday Thoughts: To Be or To Do
9:09 am, Thursday — Atlanta Verbs. No part of speech communicates as effectively as a richly active verb. Whenever you come across a dull being verb (am, are, is, were, was, be, being, been), try to...
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Tuesday Tryouts: Blazon It!
8:33 — Atlanta Hello all. I decided to show you the BLAZON. The form is not stressful and can be fun.You will need to think metaphorically, much like the delight song I asked you to write some weeks...
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Thursday Thoughts: More Words That Have to Go
8:57 am — Atlanta Hello dear readers. I hope everyone is well and writing. Today, I shall speak about a group of words and then we will take a week’s break from my telling you what you should not be...
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Into Place: Tuesday Tryouts
8:04 a.m. Hello, everyone. Is it only Tuesday? Let’s see what we can do to entertain ourselves. I decided, based on the way you all fall with delighted cries on any image I post, that I will post...
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Poem Tryouts: Devastation
8:32 a.m. — Atlanta listening to Kenny Rogers singing The Gambler Hello, all. Image day, today. Sometime last week an email arrived from my brother with the photograph I am going to use. When I opened...
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Poem Tryouts: A Single Image
7:00 a.m. — somewhere in the air between SF and SA listening to the click of keys as my husband slays in WOW Hello, all. I have been enjoying the poems that have been translated and wish I had the time...
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Poem Tryouts: This is Where I Want to Be
8:54 a.m. — San Antonio listening to Bohemian Rhapsody sung by Queen Hello, everyone, new, old-timer, and in between. I hope you are well. Today is our image prompt and I have a place to get lost in...
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