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One Impossible Thing Is Coming True-Five More To Go
So, I did a something about a month ago. I entered a poem into a big contest. Not one of those for-kicks-and-grins kind of contests, this one has a $2000 grand prize. I didn’t tell anyone about it. Honestly, I didn’t think it was that big of a deal and there was a wait period of about two weeks before I would know if my poem had been accepted. It was an electronic submission which then automatically setup a profile for me on the website. So, I filled out the profile info and then uploaded a few poems. And then I left it alone and forgot about it. Things have…
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Remember Polaroids?
So I woke up this morning after having had a rather sad dream about my mom and Christmas, and this was what kept playing through my head once I was alert enough to become cognizant of the words. Jesi P.S. Make sure to check out my post over at Twisted Writers today. I wrote the beginning of a new story! Snapshot By Jesi Scott How I miss the sweetness of those days, The summer waves, And the promises of what could have been When we Were filled with possibility. If only we’d known then. But came the autumn chill. There was a way, but we had no…
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Strange Dreams and Poetry Compilations
I stayed up much too late last night going through 200+ poems. I had to read through them, make edits if needed-and believe me, some of my older work needed tweaking-and then move them into the compilation folder to go through each one later to see which one will make the cut. I’m going to create the sections next and then, after my elves have chosen which poems are worthy (visions of Wayne’s World just flashed before my eyes-can’t you just picture pages of poetry pulling a Wayne and Garth?No? Maybe it’s just me then.), I will move them into the appropriate sections. After that, but always in my mind,…
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Lots of Writing Here
The last 24 hours has actually seen quite a bit of writing going on. I started reading Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, and something I read in there sparked an idea. I started a story a little while ago that I titled The Faerie’s Tale. I posted a snippet of it for you readers and I uploaded it to my writing group. After listening to their critiques I came to the conclusion that I wanted to continue the story and that I also wanted to change the perspective. Right now it reads from the third person point of view. Yesterday, after having ruminated on the idea from Good…
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Do What’s Necessary
I woke up when my alarm went off this morning at 6 am and I lay in bed thinking about how sleepy I was and how I needed another hour of sleep. If I want my kids to take the bus to school then I have to get them up at 6 am every day, and Jack makes it a challenge almost every morning. If I don’t care about the bus then I can sleep in until 7 am, get everybody up and I can drive them to school myself. But then I have to get dressed and get out the door and we have less time to get…
