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read between the stripes We are jailed to our grammarread between the stripes by ~whoneedsnormal
ball-and-chain sentencing; the semi-colon
once called a hermaphrodite, but by a satirical of sorts
Conjunctions never come first.
And "I" always come before "E"veryone else.
We are jailed to thesis statement triangles
to MLA 8, 9, 10 (without possibility of url)
the link made of a repeating "O", like a howl of agony.
"Our quotes were misconstrued [clarifying guilt between bars]"
AP Style says I'd rather be six indents under than anywhere but here.
We are chained to our Qwerty, our homerow heroin
frantically, fanatically typing to give way to good behavior.
Rolling commas in toilet paper (contraband
Writing Poetic Depth + Surface There are many ways you can approach a poem, just as with every form of literature. You can pet it nicely and coax it into spitting out nuggets of information, or you can waterboard it until it talks pure nonsense.Writing Poetic Depth + Surface by ~whoneedsnormal
The poet Billy Collins put it nicely: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/001.html
This article isn't about approaching poetry for analysis, however, but in writing, with that analysis in mind. I find that it really boils down to two kinds of readers in the world: those who let ideas come to them, and those who do not, and just want the literal meaning. Some readers will never see "underneath the underneath" of your poem, simply o
NaNoWriMo 2010NaNoWriMo 2010
The rumbles of the biggest event of the literature calendar are already bubbling, despite the event not starting until November 1st! Yes I am talking about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and this article is about how YOU can get involved in one of the best writing challenges created.
NaNo- what now?
If you are new to the concept of NaNoWriMo, let me explain what it is all about. NaNoWriMo is a writing challenge where you have 30 Days (the whole of November) to write 50000 words (yes words!) for a novel.
The novel can be anything. Any genre, any style- it can even be nonfiction or fanfiction. Howev
Pretending to be Grown UpPretending to be Grown Up by ~MessyMistakes
She's sitting on the dirty bed,
dragging from unlit cigarettes.
Her fingers are curled into the
pillow.Her eyes rimmed with
smudged black eyeliner
and her lips a red smear
shes puffing imaginary smoke
rings into the the reflection in
the mirror.
She maybe thought she loved him,
yes those words might have passed
her parted lips. But they can't be
held against her, she was under the
influence of lust.With his dark
smouldering eyes and mischevious
smirk. And his crisp white button down
shirts that are now patterned
with her lip print kisses.
She glances with hooded eyes at
the steamy glass door of t
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