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The Same But Different: Writing For Children’s Series | SCBWI Metro NY News
Challenges of writing the second book in a series.
The Same But Different: Writing For Children’s Series | SCBWI Metro NY News.
Noir
She steps
out of the
fog that
hangs around
until noon
every day
this time
of year, furtive,
turning to
see if he
is still following,
the one who
knows about
the stain on
her best coat,
the one she
left under
Santa Monica
Pier.
Day 9: Write a Hunter or Hunted Poem
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 9 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Here is mine:
Hunter
A cat from
somewhere
in the neighborhood
has leaped
our cedar fence
and settled
herself, uneasy,
in the snow
under our
bird feeder.
She doesn’t
seem to know
she has no
summer cover
and no bird
will come close
as long as she
is there. Besides,
she is much more
than well-fed.
What draws her
she couldn’t
explain, even if
she had words:
rain forest
shadows in
the blood.
Write a “Bright” or “Dark” Poem for Robert Brewer’s Blog
This is Two-fer Tuesday on Robert Brewer’s blog. Today’s assignment is to write a poem suggested by the word bright, the word dark, or both.
2013 April PAD Challenge: Day 2 | Write a Poem a Day Until May | WritersDigest.com.
Here’s mine:
Bright
Blinding
emergence
from pulsing
red heat
beating darkness
unconscious
junction unaware
of unseen realities
of separation
promising brightness
at the end of
a pressing tunnel
blinking screaming
at bloody murder
of beginning
and all blinding
divisions gradually
emerging
from icy light.
Prepare Now for Submit-O-Rama in October
I just found out about this today. It’s another monthly challenge. This one is held in October, just before NaNoWriMo. The assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to submit as many things as many places as possible in one month. Read all about it by clicking the link below. Start collecting resources, reading interviews, and saving submission sites now for maximum effectiveness.
Enter the Castaways Poetry Competition
If you are looking for a challenge or for inspiration, check out the rules for this free poetry competition. Poems are to be based on sculptures in the city’s collection. Submissions are via email.
WD Poetic Form Challenge: Write a Rondel
Hurry, tommorow is the last day to submit your Rondel to Robert Brewer’s Poetic Asides blog.
Read what others have submitted, then post your own. It’s engrossing.
WD Poetic Form Challenge: Rondel | Poems | Poetry | WritersDigest.com.
Here’s mine:
The snow drifts down
like feather lace,
a wild goose case
confounds the town
draping a gown
of ivory grace,
a wild goose case,
the snow drifts down.
Between verb and noun,
between form and space,
between plot and place–
love and renown–
the snow drifts down.
Linda J. Armstrong, 1/9/13 All rights reserved.
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 202 | Fictionalized True Event Poem | WritersDigest.com
Today’s challenge on Robert Brewer’s blog is to write a poem that fictionalizes a true event. �If you want to give it a try, click on the link.
Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 202 | Fictionalized True Event Poem | WritersDigest.com.
Here’s mine:
Going Home
On the bus
from my new
home to my
old one,
to catch
a last smile
from my
dying father,
I looked
out the window
at a familiar
pass shrouded
in forest fire
smoke, but
off to the right,
there was a
clearing, unseasonably
green and glowing,
like one of his
paintings and I
knew he was
finally home.
Linda Armstrong, 12/19/12. All rights reserved.
via Wednesday Poetry Prompts: 202 | Fictionalized True Event Poem | WritersDigest.com.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 30 | Milk Poem | WritersDigest.com
Today is the last day of the Poem a Day Challenge. I did not finish my NaNoWriMo goal, but I did write a poem every day. Now, it’s time to go through them and choose between 10 and 20 for the chapbook competition. You can enter too, even if you didn’t post. Today’s link leads to the final prompt, a “milk” poem, and the community’s responses. There you will also find a link to the submission rules. Revision is allowed, and so are some poems not written during the competition, but most should have been created for the PAD challenge. You have until January to submit. (I get involved in other things and forget, so I will probably put mine together much sooner.)
This has been a wonderful experience, and I know that my efforts have been read by more people than would have seen most printed journals. I’ve met some wonderful new poets. I plan to keep posting my own warm-ups here, but other challenges loom and it might not be daily. Thanks for following and I hope you had fun, too.
2012 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 30 | Milk Poem | WritersDigest.com.
Milk
White as
winter, poured
icy from
the refrigerator
White as
Grandmother’s
sheets.
delivered to the doorstep
White as
summer clouds
in my
first cup
White as
cream
for Dad’s coffee
from the top
White as
light
through the morning
window.
White as
simple
beginnings:
milk.
One Way to Wonder 