CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

I know I've written about magpies before, but I couldn't resist taking a few shots of some very wobegone-looking birds who came to visit on a very wet Saturday morning in August, this year. They looked much happier once the rain had stopped. For more information on Magpies, check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4858bWD-DPU http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Cracticus-tibicen http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/animals/TheAustralianMagpie.htm http://www.climatewatch.org.au/species/birds/australian-magpie

Sometimes I get stuck for ideas, and sometimes I just run out of steam. Today was one of those days. I had a post prepared about Robertson Davies version of the englyn, but I couldn’t wrap my head around writing it, so I’ve stowed that post for another day—and then I went looking for some help. I used ‘how to write poems’ as a search term, but it was too general, so I used ‘types of poems’ and took the first link I saw: http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html . Now, while I’m tempted to call this the Kathi Mitchell leg of the challenge, I won’t, but I will direct you to her site. It’s a good resource for teachers, poets-in-the-making, and writers who hit a bit of a block, but need to write a poem for whatever reason. So, go here, for a crash course in some poetry basics: http://www.kathimitchell.com/poemtypes.html . And then I just had to go and dig a little further and I discovered that there were some different types of acrostic, including the one we’re featuring this week...

Busy week at school and a busy fortnight ahead. Still trying to work out how to study effectively, keep up my writing and get enough sleep so that I don’t break. On the upside, stuff got done.   Overview New words produced: 7,230 Old words revised: 0 Works completed: 20 (all for two other major works) Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 0 Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 0 Bloggery: 1,303 (included in above total) Tier 1 Tasks Annual 13: Added 0 words, awaiting editing and formatting; Annual 14: Added 5,726 words; Annual23 : Added 201 words; Publishing Tasks Created 4 blog posts for this blog. New Arrivals The following ideas arrived this week: PictureBook29A—My Friends, the Birds: a bilingual book about birds; Poem436— h Dragon’s Wrath : an englyn toddaid about a dragon; Poem437— My Choice : a cinquain about a life choice; ShortStory366— Escaping the Undead : a piece of flash zombie apocalypse fiction;...