Month: February 2012

February is Writing Challenge Month

Word of the Day: UPDATE!!!!

morceau \mawr-SOH\, noun:

1. Piece; morsel.
2. An excerpt or passage of poetry or music

Is that perfect or WHAT?!

I wanted to update my post to participate and share a portion of a longer series of concrete imagery poetry that I’m working on. Here’s my morceau:

Night:
Where stars abound indigo sky.
Silver moon elevated
By the gravity of change.

 

 

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February is Writing Challenge Month (Day 2)

Word of the Day:

exoteric

\ ek-suh-TER-ik \  , adjective;

1. Suitable for or communicated to the general public.
2. Not belonging, limited, or pertaining to the inner or select circle, as of disciples or intimates.
3. Popular; simple; commonplace.
4. Pertaining to the outside; exterior; external.
Okay everyone! You know the drill. Let’s write a poem, prose piece, flash fiction, or short fiction piece based on this word or containing the word of the day! I think this is a great exercise for February that will have us push the boundaries of our writing faculties. Especially for us poets out there using adjectives instead of concrete nouns to build upon. I’m excited to see what you all come up with.
As for me: my participation in this exercise will come tomorrow…I’m feeling quiet today with the impending Valentine’s Day festivities…I shall write “poetry full of ESOTERIC allusions” tomorrow.

February Is Writing Challenge Month!

screed

noun

1. a long discourse or essay, especially a diatribe.
2. an informal letter, account, or other piece of writing.

3.       Building Trades.

          a. a strip of plaster or wood applied to a surface to be plastered to serve as a guide for making a true surface.
          b. a wooden strip serving as a guide for making a true level surface on a concrete pavement or the like.
          c. a board or metal strip dragged across a freshly poured concrete slab to give it its proper level.
4.       British Dialect . a fragment or shred, as of cloth.

5.       Scot.

          a. a tear or rip, especially in cloth.
          b. a drinking bout.
verb
6.       Scot. to tear, rip, or shred, as cloth.
I found myself looking around at my desk at work for a pen and paper. I didn’t have a poem in my head or a Hallmark card saying I needed to write, or even a quote I wanted to remember and blurt out at parties as though I hadn’t rehearsed it five times before…
I didn’t have the need for perverse punctuation time rhythm or form line
breaks or caesura. I just wanted space and line –  to smell ink on pen. To write a love letter! To who? To tree? Too deep. To Mother Nature and all other likely incantations for their likely existence on my creativity? Too cliché.
My love letter is to Dictionary.com and it’s inspiration for me to write. To write blog pieces based upon the words my bulk emails give me in my appreciable inbox at work. Now that’s contemporary writing.
So I’ve decided to post my word of the day from Dictionary.com here on my blog everyday for a month for a writing exercise as my “February Is Writing Challenge Month!” Blogs are a great way to share your work and a great way to workshop pieces. Let’s see what pieces (Poetry, Short Fiction, Prose, whatever your heart desires) you all come up with! I’ll post, too!