It seems crazy, doesn’t it? I completed my first novel over an entire decade. I finished my second novel over the next decade. It took me eight years to write a novella. Granted, during the composition of all three of these pieces I was employed as a full-time public school English teacher–which may have beenContinue reading “On My First Attempt at NaNoWriMo: Writing a Novel in 30 Days”
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#295: Simultaneously
251 babies are born every minute and 105 people die. That’s not sustainable, just saying. 18 million people just got into a motor vehicle, not the same vehicle, obviously. There are 1500 active volcanos and earthquakes are always happening. 75 people just bought a burger at McDonald’s. 75 people just bought a burger at McDonald’s.Continue reading “#295: Simultaneously”
#286: When Easter Falls on April Fools Day
The first poem of the month has a provocative title, and suggests, provocatively, that Jesus was joking. He made us think he was dead and then rose again on the third day, the first day of April, to shoot hoops with his friends. Most everyone was totally fished in. You would be. But of course,Continue reading “#286: When Easter Falls on April Fools Day”
#7: Six Statements and a Question
Write a poem in which each line is a single declarative sentence until the last line. The last line should be a question. That was the prompt today on http://www.napowrimo.net and I took up the challenge. I thought, that since today was the seventh day of the poetry writing extravaganza, that my poem would containContinue reading “#7: Six Statements and a Question”
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