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 …
Writing practice: write a one-sentence story Humans are emotional creatures, which means we can’t not be magnetized. Usually, we’re externally magnetized briefly, then we relax, then externally magnetized briefly, then we relax. If we are internally magnetized, then we are less susceptible to being externally magnetized in whichever direction the external force is applied. That …
Writing practice: write a one-sentence story The difference between a human and an ant is the ant doesn’t have the capacity to evade the fact that it’s just like all the other ants. [ok, that wasn’t a story. try again] Perhaps there’d be less ennui if people had more of themselves to express. [again, not …
Writing practice: just tell a story [i’ve been in a bit of a funk the last few days, but i need to do this. i spent half my writing time today purging my mind and aligning my thoughts by reading more of the count of monte cristo, but i need to get something down here] …