CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I've got my October cover early - and I love it! 365 Days of Flash Fiction is scheduled for release on October 4, 2014, and pre-ordering from Smashwords in early September 2014.

This week, we’re looking at an eighth kind of cinquain—the Didactic Cinquain. Unlike the other forms, this one doesn’t use a syllable count as a base. Instead, it relies on a word count for each line. The first line of this cinquain is a noun—which also acts as the title, the second line consists of two adjectives describing the title, the third line consists of a three-word phrase further describing the title, the fourth line has four words describing feelings about the title, and the fifth line is a single word, usually a synonym, that references the title subject. For those of you who are new to this series, a cinquain is a five-line poem that has a set number of syllables (or word types) per line. Sometimes the title of a cinquain acts as a sixth line. Cinquains were invented by Adelaide Crapsey was an American poet who was inspired by the rules of Japanese poetry to create her own poetical form, the cinquain. Here’s an example, originally written for a poetry coll

A better week, this week, but I’m not as sick and I’ve had a couple of mornings on the bus, which seems to be where most of my writing gets done during semester. Overview New words produced: 3,140 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 19 (all for inclusion in longer works) Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 1 Tasks Annual 13: Added 470 words Annual 14: Added 1,953 words Publishing Tasks Created 4 blog posts for this blog; New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: Poem360—Trolls: a didactic cinquain about trolls; Poem361—Starships: a didactic cinquain about space colonisation; Poem362—Dragons: a didactic cinquain about dragons; Poem363—Pixies: a didactic cinquain about pixies; Poem364—Dreams: a didactic cinquain about dreams; Poem365—Defiance: a didactic cinquain about being different and choosing your own road; Poem366—Goblins: a grammar cinquain about gob