Today’s prompt: write a poem using at least five of the following words:
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National Poetry Month
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #19 (April 19, 2013)
Today’s writing prompt is to write a poem in the form of a personals ad. I’m not really in a space to do that sort of thing, so I ended up taking sort of the opposite approach… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #18 (April 18, 2013)
Today’s prompt: write a poem that begins and ends with the same word. Given the whirlwind-of-change-inspired self-reflection of the last few months, it was almost too easy. Not that the poem itself was necessarily easy, just the challenge… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #17 (April 17, 2013)
Today’s prompt: a greeting poem. Finally, something I can get behind… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #16 (April 16, 2013)
Decided to ignore today’s prompt. Too difficult, if I’m to be honest.
Instead, I wrote something short, prompted by the sunny weather this afternoon… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #15 (April 15, 2013)
Decided to ignore the writing prompt; too much trouble.
I started three or four different drafts that either went nowhere, or I couldn’t take any further. Here’s the one I liked best (hated least): Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #14 (April 14, 2013)
Today’s prompt is to write a poem in the voice of a superhero. That’s not so much my thing, but we’ll see what happens… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #13 (April 13, 2013)
Today’s prompt is to take a walk, make notes, and incorporate them into a poem.
Well, this wasn’t that kind of a day. So, instead of an actual walk, I took a mental walk through the day, and noted a few impressions… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #12 (April 12, 2013)
Today’s prompt: “write a poem consisting entirely of things you’d like to say, but never would, to a parent, lover, sibling, child, teacher, roommate, best friend, mayor, president, corporate CEO, etc.” Well, that got very unwieldy very quickly—and not terribly interesting. But I thought I might be able to make something out of it… Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month: Day #11 (April 11, 2013)
Today’s prompt: a tanka. Should be simple enough; after all, the more widely known haiku is really just an abbreviated tanka. The difference is that a tanka has two additional lines of seven syllables each.
Today’s entry is actually kind of silly, but I’ve been doing battle with Roxio Toast, trying to burn a DVD copy of the new Christopher Titus special so I can watch it on my TV, instead of being stuck watching it on my computer. Unfortunately, the only decent software for creating DVDs on the mac is Roxio’s Toast, which has steadily gone downhill over the years—while Roxio’s tech support (as such) has remained maddeningly consistent in its level of suckiness.
I was actually able to successfully burn a copy—but, even though I had Toast set to widescreen, the DVD it burned was most definitely not in widescreen format. So, I had to do it over. Only Toast wouldn’t do it. No matter what adjustments I made to the various settings in order to reduce the size of the encoded video, Toast kept telling me that the video was larger than the capacity of the disc, even though it had been indicating otherwise.
Finally, I gave up and deleted the bastard Toast altogether. Unfortunately, there are no other decent DVD-burning applications for the Mac. The alternatives either don’t work, or can’t even be installed. I’ve had to resort to trying to use a Windows PC (blech!), while simultaneously attempting to get the job done on the copy of Toast that’s on my ancient, eight-year-old iMac G5—which means that, if it actually works, it might finish the job today…
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