Tag: #change
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NaPoWriMo Day 27 – Adapting
“Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a “duplex.” A “duplex” is a variation on the sonnet, developed by the poet Jericho Brown. Here’s one of his first “Duplex” poems, and here is a duplex written by the poet I.S. Jones. Like a typical sonnet, a duplex has fourteen lines. It’s organized into seven, two-line…
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NaPoWriMO Day 24- Leaving
Last but not least, here’s our prompt for the day (optional, as always). Hard-boiled detective novels are known for their use of vivid similes, often with an ironic or sarcastic tone. Novelist Raymond Chandler is particularly adept at these. Here are a few from his novels: A few locks of dry, white hair clung to…
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CHANGE…Easier than YOU think…Harder when YOU fight it!
The word “Change” conjures up all kinds of emotions in people. Reactions to change are as myriad as people themselves. Change of school, change of city, change of residence, change of job, change in oneself, change in environment, changing behaviors of people…if there is one thing that’s constant, that’s change! Yet change is the most resisted. Then…