Entries by Bethany

An Inappropriate Poem

“If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.” -Gail Sher My assignment today is to write an inappropriate poem. Keep it PG, Chris said, and, Don’t tell me you don’t know what I mean. Here’s my attempt. Told to write an inappropriate poem, I begin thinking about sex, and […]

The Ekphrastic Poem

  POETRYisEVERTHING‘s prompt for day 9 is to write an Ekphrastic poem, a poem based on a painting or another art form. As Chris explains, the ekphrastic poem can be a response to a painting, or it can give a painting a voice. To read more, you might check out a handout that I found […]

Facing His Fear

I subscribe to AdviceToWriters, which emails me a quote every day. Here’s today’s: If you want to write, you can. Fear stops most people from writing, not lack of talent, whatever that is. Who am I? What right have I to speak? Who will listen to me if I do? You’re a human being, with […]

Skirt or Skirts?

I am — honestly — in the last stages of the novel revision, and one of the picky things I worried over today was “skirts or skirt,” as in: With a flounce of her red skirt (skirts?) beneath her cloak that suggested the young woman she would become in a few short years…   My […]