Salute to Veterans
Re-posted from a couple years back… Honoring friends and family members on this day. I hope you are doing the same. If not family,then friends and strangers who have, and are still, risking their lives for us every day. Col. I.M. Glass, U.S.Air Force – career Pilot, 1948-1974 (Hi, Dad!) Sergeant Deryl T. Wieneke, U.S.Air Force […]
Inspiration, Influence, or Something Else?
If you read a poem or story and you write something based on your reaction, is it okay? So at what point is it NOT okay? Of course if you copy lines, that’s definitely taboo. But what if, when someone reads your work and thinks “Oh, xxxx wrote a piece like this, too.”? Have you crossed […]
Word Play
Searching for something quirky for your character? How about creating a new catch-phrase or word? It happens more often than we think. I’ll bet you sometimes use a phrase that you picked up from a television show, movie, or book somewhere along the line. Gone With the Wind gave us “Fiddle-dee-dee” and “Tomorrow is another day.” Films like […]
Off to Oz…
Now and then, while attending the Lucidity Poets’ Retreat, I’m tempted to paraphrase that quotation, “…We’re not in (Ar)Kansas any more…”. Indeed, late April in the Ozarks is a wonder – a natural sensory overload. Top that off with the mixture of characters that live and work in Eureka Springs, and it does get rather […]
Prompted, Again.
As Bo and I wander around the state on weekends, things just seem to happen… Last Saturday, we were in a small town in Northern Arkansas and stopped for lunch at a Mom-and-Pop-type diner. When we went in we noticed a help-wanted sign, and wisecracked about going to work up there and getting out of the […]
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