Read and write with a sensitive ear. The craft of writing is very important. Practice the craft.
~Henry Petroski
tanka aka waka
Wrote in the most traditional format of Japanese literature
Classical (early Heian) period in Japanese literature (794 AD-1185 AD)
Nothing much is known about her life.
Renowned for her unusual beauty
Among 36 Poetry Immortals
Poems are pensive, melancholy, and erotic. Most of her poems are melancholy.
A life in vain
My looks, talents faded
like these cherry blossoms
paling in the endless rains
that I gaze upon, alone.
beat, beet
cent, scent, sent
coarse, course
clothes, close
loan, lone
oar, ore
root, route
scene, seen
sign, sine
whine, wine
There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
~Mason Cooley, Writer (1927-2002)
A friend of mine is writing her memoirs about her life transition. Writing a memoir, one will dredge up some bitter memories of the past. To leave those moments out could take away from the story.
Writers can also bring out repressed or long-neglected feeling in themselves. I see this as crossing the divide. This has personally happened to me. I'm neither shocked nor surprised because I believe that writing should evoke these feelings. It's up to me how I choose to deal with them.
Council, counsel
Currant, current
Dear, deer
Sear, seer
Soar, sore
Their, there
I spend a lot of time in a sort of free state when I'm writing in the beginning and sketching.
~ Tony Gilroy
Hart Crane
Alexandre Dumas
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Herman Hesse
Ernest Hemingway
Aldous Huxley
Franz Kafka
Alice Munro
Pablo Neruda
Marcel Proust
J. K. Rowling
Wole Soyinka
Wislawa Szmborska
Henry David Thoreau
Margaret Walker
E. B. White
Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)
Born in west Africa
Brought to Boston, Massachusetts at age seven
Taught how to read and write
First African American to have volume of poems published
On Being Brought from Africa to America
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher (1712-1778)
One of the beauties of writing is when the character crosses into new territory. 👌 It can be a place he/she desired to go. It can be somewhere they never imagined. It's the magic that horror stories present.
As a writer I want the character to close a door that they can never open again. He/she is frightened because of the unknown, but is willing to proceed forward. Keep the story moving, I say.
I am writing a story about an adult film star fifteen years after he started. I am sure that there have been stories of protagonists (antagonists) later in their lives. Age will take away strength and looks but never relevance. Wisdom is gained also.
The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.
~Tom Stoppard
JAMES HENRY- Irish Poet (1798-1876)
Was a doctor
Always carried a copy of Homer's 'Virgil' and 'Aeneid'
Authored five collections of verse
Two narrative poems describing his travels
Satirical pamphlets
Published at his own expense
BOOKS
Aeneidia
The Eneis, Books I and II
*Note- not to be confused with Henry James
I was preferred writing about grey characters and human characters. Whether they are giants or elves or dwarves, or whatever they are, they are still human, and the human heart is till in conflict with the self.
~George R. R. Martin
JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. (1895-1919) Born in Louisville, KY. The Band of Gideon and Other Lyrics (1918) features 25 poems. Cotter's o...
