Writing practice: more metaphors/imagery The next line in Richard III : “And all the clouds that lowered upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.” First, he should have written “Are in the deep bosom…” or something like that, since what he wrote leaves out the predicate (I think that’s what it’s …
Writing practice: metaphors/imagery [but first…] There’s something really magical about seeing a thing for what it is. When all the extraneous irrelevancies fall away and you see the true nature of a thing. And we humans pile on these irrelevancies as much to distract ourselves as to distract others, and also as a result of …
Writing practice: create one-line metaphors/imagery [but first more thinking through…] There’s a magic in being able to see something clearly, meaning to understand the true nature of something or to have a completely clear vision for something. Then everything extraneous melts away and you see the inner essence for exactly what it is. [just try …
Writing practice: still trying for the cat soliloquy… [just try for some good metaphors/imagery] Before my heart had grown an undercoat [well that’s it for today]
Writing practice: continue with opening soliloquy for cat CAT [first, a diversion] What do you do when you think it would be instructive to empathize with another or another group, but they aren’t interested in doing the same? Or you think, “What’s the point of understanding them better, since they don’t want to understand the …
Writing practice: keep trying for that cat soliloquy [actually just going to work through some more stuff] [you just have to extract one word at a time, if that’s what it takes] [ok, back to the cat] So the cat has a backstory for why he’s like that. He’s sent from his mother’s womb, against …
Writing practice: do an opening soliloquy from the perspective of the cat, in the style of Richard III CAT At birth I was the last, the runt, the frail, Too quick removed I hide amid the brush and feed on scraps Discarded by the kennel, once my home [no. let’s break this down. the first …
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 …