Writing practice: Continue with The Cat in the Hat in blank verse Above a little smile lightly veiled, Our mother’s gaze hit boy, then girl, then fish. “Alright,” she said, “you finish up in here, I’ll cook us up some warm and yummy soup.” Some day, perhaps, this lesson will return, In circumstance of greater …
Writing practice: Continue with The Cat in the Hat in blank verse We saw the cat admire what he’d caused – His Things amok, walls, dress, and bed defaced. “His ends,” I thought, “expend us as his means. His joy is tearing down for power’s sake.” I saw my sister’s face twist in alarm, Her …
Writing practice: Continue writing The Cat in the Hat in blank verse And being young and raised with mother’s grace, Shake hands we did, for children aim to please. Two cat eyes glowed with cunning’s sense of strength Manipulating good, naive, and weak. “Wake up!” said fish. “You mustn’t trust these three! There’s tragedy fair-masked …
Writing practice: continue writing The Cat in the Hat in blank verse And when the cat fell down and lost his crown, So tumbled after books and ship and cake. Repotted was the fish who planted seeds Within the soil of the children’s minds. “Look at the fruits,” said fish, “this trouble bore! Contained within …
Writing practice: continue with The Cat in the Hat in blank verse [this is the start of act 3] “Mute conscience, stymie fear,” wide-grinned the cat. “This vicious fish would dampen all your fun. Let’s elevate his thinking, shall we now? Let’s force him to repent for backward thoughts!” [lacking metaphor, but just keep going. …
Writing practice: continue with The Cat in the Hat in blank verse And so our lives presented us a choice, When faced with overwhelming rush of tide: To swim against the tow with children’s strength Or ride the wave and hope ourselves to float. We knew at once the proper stroke to take, And yet …
Writing practice: start writing The Cat in the Hat in blank verse The sun was curtained by the stormy clouds, Which on the saddened yard they dewed apace. Entombed indoors sat we, old Noah’s kin, That day which wet was doubled by its cold. [once i get through the whole thing, then i’ll go back …
Writing practice: single lines of iambic pentameter using metaphors as best you can [there’s a line in King Lear, “Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides”, by Cordelia. just beautiful use of metaphor. anyway, that’s the model of perfection] Truth shall unstitch what threaded lies have sewn [ok, a total takeoff, but that’s ok. just …
Writing practice: 6 different things, broken into approx. 20 min. parts [1st part: first sentences] After 500,000 years of erosion, the rock face of Malcolm Bluff exposed the smallest piece of a structure homo sapiens had never seen, at the same time exposing a crack in the periodic table, through which an undiscovered metal shown. …
Writing practice: write a letter the main character finds at the beginning of an adventure story [ok, this will be a journal entry, not a letter] [ok, just write one or two sentences from a journal entry] “January 17, 1873, 5:30 am. This morning I woke up on the verge of suffocation. I had no …