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  • An Immeasurable Fairyland

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    Another ‘light-hearted flight of fancy’ – also, the only bit of poetry I’ve been paid for. In contrast to last week’s poem, it rhymes. 🙂   An Immeasurable Fairyland I walked into a lonesome glade Where on stem and leaf and every blade Of grass there danced a fairy maid And trails of gems through…

  • Rhymes and Non-Rhymes

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    I like poetry to rhyme. Sure, some non-rhyming poetry is neat, but as a kid it stuck in my head that poems = rhymes, and poems that don’t rhyme feel weird somehow. Still, I’ve written some stuff that doesn’t rhyme. I like the challenge of rhyming, but when I want to write an idea quickly,…

  • Limerick

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    No time for a deep, insightful blog post on the meaning of life today, so instead you get some nonsense poetry. Namely, a limerick:   I walked along the beach And stepped upon a peach. I slipped, and whacked Muscle Man, who cracked And now I’m quite dead meat.     Not exactly a wonderful limerick,…

  • Vanity, Oh Vanity

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    OR: What Do You Mean I’m Not a Great Poet – I Got My Poem Published In a Vanity Anthology!   On the subject of poetry, it’s very difficult to publish poetry, or get famous doing it. But that’s not exactly obvious if you just google “publish poetry” or “poetry contest” and thousands of hits…

  • Frustration

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    Frustration is… … having a zillion writing ideas in your head, but not having time to actually write them. Because you have to write a boring, derivative history paper instead. Or study for statistics. I came across the concept of dead fanfiction today – basically it’s fanfiction that never gets updated because of other life…

  • Teenage Dreams

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    This poem was actually on a bus ad – our city has this program called “Poetry on the Bus” to put poetry in everyday transit riders’ lives, and my poem was selected for it a couple years back. It was actually pretty cool to hear some of my friends saw it. It’s actually the last…

  • Sci-Fi and Me: The Uneasy Truce

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    After discussing Fantasy last week, I decided to examine its sister-genre, Science Fiction, next. I used to swear I hated science fiction. And I had good reason to – every sci-fi forced on me in school was invariably depressing (I’ve never been a fan of depressing stories, I usually read to escape to a happier…

  • Poetry

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    Poetry is whirling words Apple trees and bright blue birds Words that make you feel happy That is poetry. I’ll be the first to admit what little poetry I’ve written is mostly light-hearted flights of fancy. The one above was on my Grade 8 poetry portfolio, so it seems fitting to start off a short…

  • Fantasy Round-up

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    Lately I’ve had people ask how I get inspiration when writing, and one big part of it is – reading other books! Good books show what works, what techniques are out there, and what tropes exist (obviously not for the purpose of blatant copying, that would be pointless). Bad books show what fails horribly, and…

  • Fanfiction: For Geeks Only?

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    Or, What I Learned From Writing Fanfiction   So, now that I’m looking back over my looooooooong career as a fanfiction author (just kidding) and wondering whether it was a useless exercise. After all, when I look back at some of the drivel I posted on fanfiction.net, I cringe. And it’s not like I could ever…