Let the poetry slam begin!

You know what this website is lacking?

Some poetry!

I will amend that right away.

These are some classic Lackscroft and Roe poems recently discovered scribbled all over one of my notebooks, imagine that. I have been given instructions to share these poems with the entire world.

We've come to sing for you
a tune that is quite true.
We travel to and fro
for all the world must know
of this sweet, yet sour tale
so listen to us wail.
We'll try to keep it short
and not offend this court.
If this promise we cannot keep
with us you'll have to weep.
But do not despair just yet
for you and I just met
and the rousing tale begins below
when we start sing the next canto.

The Fairy Tale Conspiracy Begins

I've been neglecting the blog lately, but I have a good excuse, really I do.

Tada: Letter 5, in which our heroine is in a pickle, she meets some mysterious commentators and uncovers a terrible evil plot by a hideous fat man.

I have to say conspiracies are really hard to write. I have such respect for any author who writes about a conspiracy. I've been working on this for a week, this letter was my worst so far. I was almost tempted to just post it and get your opinion, but by that point it was such a huge mess. So I did my best to fix it. It still needs works.

And, you'll notice there is something very important missing. This is the only letter that I didn't write down the messengers.

Terrwyn, do you still have the original letter and envelope for this one? It would be soooo helpful if you did and I don't have to recreate it. This is the envelope where Lackcroft and Roe make their first appearance. (heaven help us.)

The Art of Imitation (Or maybe just bad writing?)

"There are no originals ideas, there are only original people." --Barbara Grizzuti Harrison.

I wanted to post Letter #5 here. I really did, I had ever intention of revising it over the weekend and then posting it Monday evening. That was my plan. But then . . . but then I read over letter five and I realized it's a mess. A sticky mess. Not to mention it has some huge plot holes. It needs some major reconstruction. I was particularly struck, not only by the bad writing, but some awfully familiar images. What's this about an elven ring?

Nano Wrap-up. Entering the Winner Circle. Welcome

Hey, it's finally December. Nano is over, but the writing will continue. I'm happy to post that we both won Nano. We both made the 50,000 word count. I got 51,263 and Terrwyn got 50,145. It's so exciting.

Earlier in the month I was all wishy washy about claiming a win, since I'm still writing the story, but now I feel like shouting it out to everyone.

I won Nano 2010!

Last month flew by for me, with all that writing-frenzy, and the year is almost over. 2011 is upon us already. The end of the world is a year away, (according to the Mayans anyway.) So let's get busy with fixing up Goosey. I've neglected this blog long enough, now I'll get back on task. I'll start to post regularly again on Mondays and Thursday. Yeah!