CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I created this cover for 365 Days of Poetry. The background photograph belongs to Greta Van Der Rol and you can find more of her work on Can Stock Photo and at Redbubble . 365 Days of Poetry is scheduled for release on November 1, 2014.

Well, we’re moving on from cinquains, but there are a few more 5-line verse forms to explore. The tanka is a five-line Japanese poem, that helped inspire the cinquain. It has five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, five in the third, and then seven in each of the fourth and fifth. Dragon Up Overhead it flies Catching thermals, finding wind Its scales a-glitter It searches the earth below Seeking, not finding, keep low. And here is a second attempt: Modern Lurker Under the stone bridge While traffic roars overhead Waiting in shadow Murder gleams within troll's eyes Within troll's heart evil lies. Why don’t you give it a try? Try writing at least one tanka for each day of the week. They don’t take a lot of time, but they can be a bit tricky. Here’s one way you might want to approach them: Decide on a topic; Think of words, phrases, feelings and ideas that relate to your topic and work out the orde

With one day to go to the end of the month, I realised I wasn’t going to make the word tally, so I turned to a chore I’d been putting off, which was transcribing older work into digital format so that I wouldn’t lose it as the paper decomposed—after twenty years, paper starts to do that. The result is that I made more progress than I expected, but in an area I had been putting off. Does it really count? I guess it does, in its own way. It’s one of those writery things that have to be kept up with. As to new words. None, since I hit the study-for-exams phase, which won’t be over for another three weeks. Today, was the only day I had to ease off. Tomorrow, it’s back to the grind to ensure I pass. Overview New words produced: 3,770 (in bloggery and outlines) Old words revised: 14,154 (1 essay; hand-written records transcribed) Works completed: 0 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 6 (same competition) Competitions Entered: