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My first attempt at Haiku

Haiku is a specific form of poetry. It is a lot harder to write than it first appears. Here are my first two attempts.

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Flash Fiction

This is to document what I learned about Flash Fiction in the past few days.  Depending on who you read, it is defined anywhere from Ernest Hemingway’s six word story: “For Sale, baby shores, never worn.” to stories containing 1000 to 1500 words.  According to Wikipedia, there are  280-character stories (also known as “twitterature“); the “dribble” (also known […]

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February’s writing group assignemnt

This month’s writing assignment is based on an idea that came to Jane Murphy from the book: “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.  I read about half the book. It did stimulate thought, but I felt disconnected reading just random writings placed under different letters in the alphabet.  Jane’s idea was for us […]