WORDS OF WISDOM

 

WORDS WITH 'OUSE'

Douse

House

Louse

Mouse

Rouse

Spouse

Youse

GOING OUTSIDE MY BOX

I derive much from putting myself as a character who is the antithesis of who I am. In an odd way it has opened doors 🚪  that I once never considered. I cast myself as an outsider, someone who is reviled by others. 

It's strange but when I walked through that door it revealed some idiosyncrasies I possess. I like viewing old pictures of New York City. I imagine being a Louis Armstrong or a Jack Kerouac. I have imagine riding some of the old elevated trains that once were part of the city landscape. I imagined being a hustler, street person, a rebel, a warrior, and an angel.

I believe it's vital read, read and read some more. Study the character. Put yourself in their skin. I don't believe I should limit myself to one kind of character. Going outside my box expands my character development.

NEW WORD

BEDIGHT adv.

Adorned

WORDS OF WISDOM

I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks.

~Sue Grafton, Novelist (1940-2017)

WORDS WITH 'INK'

Blink

Chink     

Clink

Dink

Fink

Gink

Kink

Link

Mink

Pink

Rink

Shrink

Sink

Slink

Think

Tink

Wink

Stink

TRUTH

 

ANIMUS TOWARD POETRY

While genres like sci-fi, mystery, and romance are celebrated, there seems to be an animus toward poetry. It is certainly much a part of the American landscape. Poets such as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson brought the genre to the American conscience. 

One mistaken notion is that poetry has to rhyme. I had that notion until I began writing and reading poetry. The majority of poems do not rhyme. I.ve written only a handful of rhymical poetry. In my case, it just flowed naturally when I put my pen to paper.

I don't believe there's one particular of writing poetry. It is deeply personal as the author shares a part of him/herself to the readers. This has not always been easy for me personally. As I age I found myself sharing feelings I never have previously. It's liberating and revealing.   

OBSCURE AUTHOR- LOUISE BOGAN

 

Louise Bogan (1897-1970)

Lyric poet, critic

Preoccupied with betrayal and mistrust of others in her works

First woman to elected as U.S. Poet Laureate (1945)

NEW WORD

MALIC adj.

1. Pertaining to apples.

2. Of or pertaining to malic acid or its derivatives.

WORDS WITH 'ET'

Bet

Fret

Get

Jet

Let

Met

Net

Pet

Set

Vet

Wet

Yet

WORDS OF WISDOM

 There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

~Ernest Hemingway, Novelist (1899-1961)

I wonder what Hemingway's state of mind was when he said this. In his last years, he felt that he was losing it as a writer.

I believe the fear of being irrelevant crosses a writer's mind. It has certainly crossed mine. I began writing poetry when my story-commentary writing became stagnant. Now I've written over three hundred poems.

I view Hemingway's comment 'sitting at the typewriter and bleed' as the author pouring his/ her heart out. Songwriting is an example of this. I want the reader to feel what the protagonist feels. 

VALENTINE WISH

 

NEW WORD

VIATOR 

A traveler or wayfarer

WORDS WITH 'UG'

I just thought of this this morning and I said why not.

Bug.                  Mug.               Tug

Chug.                Plug

Dug.                  Pug

Hug.                  Rug

Jug.                   Shrug

Lug.                   Slug

NEW WORD

RATAPLAN n.

A drumming or beating sound.

 

WORDS OF WISDOM

You don't write a book. You write a sentence and then a paragraph and then and then a page and then a chapter. Looking at writing 400 plus pages or seventy thousand odd words is incredibly daunting, but if you just focus on the immediate picture-say, 500 words-it's not so overwhelming.

~Rebecca Serle

WRITING IS GRATIFYING

Writing is the most challenging profession yet it is the most gratifying when success comes. To me, it's not that I seek fame. If a piece of writing touches one person, I consider it a success. 

Ernest Hemingway quoted: 'There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed.'  There are times when I spill out my guts. There are other times I cannot think of a word to write. It can drive me nuts but I wouldn't have it any other way.

WRITERS/POETS BORN IN FEBRUARY

A. W. Auden

Elizabeth Bishop

James Dickey

Langston Hughes

James Joyce 

Galway Kinnell

Audre Lorde

Christopher Marlowe

Boris Pasternak

Amy Tan

NEW WORD

 DENOUEMENT. n.

The resolution of a pilot's many threads.