Tag: writing
member name: Sammie B.
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February 09, 2009 02:09 PM EST --
So, I had my first meeting with my Poetic Forms class last Thursday, and it has scared the bejeesus out of me. They're analyzying all the little things about poems and how the writers added small . . .
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November 05, 2009 08:54 AM EST --
I know some of you must've been thinking that at this point. It's been quite a while since I've been on, but I assure you I have good reason!
First, I got a second job. I now work at Kmart in the mornings . . .
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May 31, 2008 09:40 AM EDT --
I wrote this piece this morning between 1:30 and 2:00, so I was extremely tired when I wrote it, so I wanted to know what you thought. It's the opening scene. Personally, I think it's a bit too . . .
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June 10, 2008 12:35 PM EDT --
I've been writing for a while now and I thought that maybe it's almost time to get my stuff out there. I'm not talking about book publishing (not only have I not finished a manuscript yet, . . .
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April 04, 2008 01:30 PM EDT --
Well, everyone has been posting their first signs of Spring, but there are none to be seen here. Indeed, we even got hail this morning! It's so very sad....so, in the spirit of wishing Spring a fast . . .
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April 05, 2008 10:54 AM EDT --
Christopher Titus said it best when he said, "Be normal and the crowd will accept you; be deranged and they will make you their leader." If one were to take the time to sit down and . . .
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June 01, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
In this poem, I use the word 'holiday' rather than vacation. It worked better for me, but it's all the same. :)
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The bathtub's overflowing; water's running . . .
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March 22, 2009 10:13 PM EDT --
My friend and I decided to give each other prompts to right on and this is the prompt I was given:
"You must write three poems - because I like three's - all more or less about the same . . .
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April 03, 2009 02:04 PM EDT --
So, this is the latest assignment for poetic forms class. The assignment was to write some form of rhyming poetry. Being lazy as I am, I decided to write in couplets because it seemed a lot easier than . . .
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July 26, 2009 05:17 PM EDT --
So, I've found recently that a lot of my plots have staled and I haven't quite been able to get back into them or decide what to write or anything.
Then the other night, about a week or a week and a . . .
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August 30, 2009 05:31 PM EDT --
Well, I finally finished writing the novel! Sort of. Ok, I'll explain. Last night I wrote the last 10k words, bringing my total word count to 45k, which will be expanded in re-writes because I know I . . .
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May 21, 2008 07:01 PM EDT --
This was a narrative essay written for College English. Just thought I'd share it with everyone else. :)
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I was in eleventh grade when I really learned how to accept myself . . .
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June 27, 2008 10:27 AM EDT --
Being Valedictorian, I was forced to write a speech for graduation tomorrow. T_T I suck at public speaking, but oh well. Anyway, I thought I would share my speech with my Gather friends as I will be spending . . .
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August 22, 2008 08:18 AM EDT --
The Nymph
A fountain in the moonlight bleeds its harmony,
A thousand eyes have passed it by, but none that ever see.
There’s a nymph that lives inside it; the water is her tears.
Every night . . .
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February 14, 2009 10:23 PM EST --
Alright, this is the first assignment I wrote for my Poetic Forms class. It's based off of the Old English accentual poems, meaning they have 4 stressed syllables per line, but they can have as many . . .
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April 23, 2009 10:43 PM EDT --
Our latest poetic forms assignment is free verse with musicality. I started this beginning of a poem from nothing and realized that it had end lines that rhymed with a word on the line above (unintentionally . . .
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September 08, 2009 10:08 PM EDT --
Author's Note: Here is draft 1.5 of this. I like to call it 1.5 because it's not really a second draft (I technically haven't finished the first draft yet), but I'm trying to edit pieces, especially . . .
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April 14, 2009 11:37 AM EDT --
The latest poetic forms assignment was to write a prose poem. However, I had trouble coming up with something to write about. So, I turned one of my recent poems into a prose poem, which I think this . . .
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August 09, 2009 02:50 PM EDT --
For those of you who didn't see the original discussion, I recently had a novel plot inspired by a dream I had. You can read about it here .
Anyway, I wanted to update you guys on how I was doing and . . .
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March 04, 2009 10:10 AM EST --
Alright, so here is round two of my poetic forms assignments. The assignment this time was to write an accentual syllabic poem. This means that each line has both the same amount of syllables and the . . .
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