Full moon, dying fire /
Icy are our night’s desires: /
Thin shadows, dull warmth.
Monthly Archives: December 2015
Haiku to you Thursday: “Embers”
Full moon, dying fire /
Icy are our night’s desires: /
Thin shadows, dull warmth.
Filed under 2015, Haiku to You Thursday, poetry by author
Writing tip Wednesday: “Deadline extended — Short, short story contest”
DEADLINE EXTENDED
We’ll keep this short.
Enter the Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition for a chance at $3,000 and a trip to the 2016 Writer’s Digest Conference, PLUS national exposure for your story! Click here to see the full prize list.
Here’s the bottom line.
Keep your story under 1,500 words to qualify, and be sure to get your work to us by January 15, 2016.
One First Place Winner will receive:
- $3,000 in cash
- Their short story title published in Writer’s Digest magazine’s July/August 2016 issue
- A paid trip to the ever-popular Writer’s Digest Conference!
- A copy of the 16th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection
- A copy of the 2016 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market
- A copy of the 2016 Guide to Literary Agents.
Other prizes and how to enter: http://www.writersdigest.com/writers-digest-competitions/short-short-story-competition?utm_source=competition&utm_campaign=wd-tjo-comp-161125&utm_content=801449_WC151125&utm_medium=email
NEW Deadline: January 15, 2016.
FormerlyDecember 14, 2015
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Monday morning writing joke: “Pocket change”
One day, a very old man walking in an enchanted forest comes across a talking frog.
“Hey, kind sir,” the frog says. “If you pick me up and kiss me, I’ll turn into a beautiful princess.”
The old man thinks about it for a minute, picks up the frog and puts it in his shirt pocket.
A little while later, the frog calls out, “Hey, mister, why don’t you kiss me. Don’t you want a beautiful princess to please you?”
“No,” the old man says. “At my age, I’d rather have a talking frog.”
Filed under 2015, Monday morning writing joke
Atelier, to the fleeting few
Atelier, to the fleeting few
by David E. Booker
Don’t bombinate,
Masticate,
Ruminate,
Or expectorate
On things fugacious.
Curb your propinquity
For antiquity
So your synchronicity
Won’t lead to affinity
With the less efficacious.
May your chronometer
And odometer,
Your speedometer
And thermometer
Be this side of rapacious.
Remember, pandiculation
is more than perturbation,
Beyond mere permutation
Or even matriculation
Over things sebaceous.
Filed under 2015, poetry by author
New words to live by: “Indiplation”
It is time, once again, for New words to live by. This is a word or phrase not currently in use in the U.S. English lexicon, but might need to be considered. Other words, such as obsurd, crumpify, subsus, flib, congressed, and others, can be found by clicking on the tags below. Today’s New Word is a compounding of word and a suffix two words. Without further waiting, indiplation is the new word for this month.
OLD WORDS
Indigestion, n. 1. Difficulty or inability to digest food; fancy term: dyspepsia.
Contemplation, n. 1. Thoughtful observation. 2. Deep contemplation, full reflection.
NEW WORD
Indiplation, n. Nagging indigestion or churning heat burn caused by thoughtful observation or continued reflection on the foible filled state of mankind.
Homo sapiens — wise man, my ass. Homo disgustus was more like it, and that was being generous. Tom wadded up the newspaper and threw in the trash and then crunched another antacid tablet. His tenth today and it wasn’t even noon. This indiplation was eating a hole in his stomach and his wallet.
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Photo finish Friday: “Crumb bummed”
Nothing quite says Happy Holidays quite like crust crumbs from your favorite left on a plate. Wonder which kind of pie Santa likes.
Filed under 2015, Photo by Beth Booker, Photo Finish Friday
Haiku to you Thursday: “Hidden”
Snowflakes and wrappings, /
weather and presents disguised: /
winter wonder land.
Filed under 2015, Haiku to You Thursday, poetry by author
Writing tip Wednesday: Agent Tara Carberry
New Agent to consider
Tara Carberry
Tara completed her undergraduate degree at Bucknell University and went on to earn a Master’s degree in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She subsequently held editorial positions at both Weinstein Books and W.W. Norton before coming to Trident to work for Kimberly Whalen and Erica Spellman Silverman.
She is seeking: Tara is building a client list of authors at all stages of their careers. She is primarily seeking women’s commercial fiction, romance, new adult, young adult, and select nonfiction.
How to submit: http://www.tridentmediagroup.com/contact-us
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cARtOONSdAY: “pERIOD tHERAPY”
Is there a difference between a Freudian period and a Jungian one?
Filed under 2015, cartoon by author, CarToonsday
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