CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I did a little bit of catching up last week… and then I went back to studying for my exam. Most of my writing was transcribing a young adult novel from its hand-written form. And I hit my 30,000-words-for-the-month goal—yay! Overview New words produced: 581 Old words revised: 7,254 Works completed: 0 Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 1 (5 platforms) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Tier 4 Tasks TweenNovel1A: added 7,254 words Publishing Tasks Created 11 blog posts for this blog; Formatted and uploaded C.M. Simpson: Short Stories and Poems from 2013: Remnants to Recent Years (1988-2012) to Amazon, Smashwords , DriveThruFiction, and OmniLit. New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: Poem384 (The Ice Queen): a dark fantasy poem about an ice queen; Poem385 (Have all the Dragons Gone and Died?): a fantasy kyrielle about the loss of dragons

This little lady came to visit. She and her friends pop by on occasion, but they always flee before I can get them all on camera. This is a superb fairy wren. You can find more information on the superb fairy wren at: http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Malurus-cyaneus

The kyrielle is a French poetic form dating from medieval times. It sometimes consists of couplets, or couplets paired into a quatrain usually linked by a chorus or refrain. The chorus may be as short as one word, or take up a whole line. Each couplet is usually four lines long, and each line consists of eight syllables. Different rhyming formats are used. If the poem is written in couplets it has an a-A, a-A format. If it is in quatrains, it might be rhymed in   a-a-b-B, c-c-b-B or a-b-a-B, c-b-c-B format, with the capital letters signifying a rhyme ending a chorus line. A kyriells should be no less than three quatrain stanzas (24 lines) long. An example of a kyrielle is below. Have all the Dragons Gone and Died Long ago, they lived in caves, as did mankind; we were their slaves We feared them once, all men and I Why ever did the dragons die? Where did they go, the dragons bold? Where did they go, when they grew old? There is no sign of them on high. ...