I’m starting to learn how to add suspense to my stories. Something I often lack because I’m such a nut about being brief. Naturally, the way I think best about suspense is to look at it through the lens of poetry. Warning: The following contains POETRY COMPOSED IN A Read more…
In college, I took the advanced poetry class (after the beginning and the intermediary) and on the first day the professor asked, “Who here is a poet?” Two or three hands went up. I didn’t raise mine. In booming outrage, the professor asked me and the other non-hand-raisers, “How can Read more…
This week, I had a guest blog on Asimov’s, about writing science fiction poetry in a 14th Century French style. I used notes I wrote a decade ago to teach the Triolet style at SCA events. Reading those notes felt like time-travel, or uncovering a historic artifact in an archeological Read more…
My father recently gave me a box of my old school books, and it had a pair of spiral notebooks in it, and one of them is replete with awful teen poetry!! Since I’m about to be on staff for a teen writing workshop next week, I thought I should Read more…