The Boston Marathon turned tragic this past Monday when two bombs went off near the finish line of the race. Two of our kids were downtown when it happened. Both are, thank God, safe, but others were not so lucky. Our hearts go out to all. Boston Marathon Blank page accuses me but I’m wordless, [...]
I love to write rhymed poetry, and as I have started on another collection of science fiction poetry set in the Aleyne universe, I’m planning to write a fair number of story-poems, a format which lends itself to rhyme. I have my own algorithm for generating rhymes (more about that later), but I also make [...]
Carla lives in Central Florida with her family and three cats (who claim they write better than she does). She has been writing since sixth grade (and still has most of her handwritten work in a box somewhere), but didn’t really have anything formally published until 1996 when her story “Me? I’m No Writer” was [...]
One of the biggest influences on my poetic ear was due to Joe Papp‘s free Shakespeare in the park. I am a native New Yorker, born and raised in Manhattan. After Joe Papp won the right to put on the plays in Central Park, we never missed a performance. Even after I moved to the [...]
Again this year I participated in Robert Lee Brewer’s November Poem A Day challenge. The poems are supposed to form a chapbook, but I wasn’t aiming for that. I simply wanted to write poetry. My muse has been in an un-serious mood most of the month. I’ve done a lot of rhyming and a lot [...]
I got email from the Mass Poetry festival letting me know they’d received my workshop proposal. Fortunately they copied the email I sent them, because I forgot to save a copy. I don’t know if they will go for it, but, hey, at least I sent it in. Workshop Even if we don’t suffer from [...]
I’m trying to promote my novel, “Relocated,” so check out this review on askDavid.com: http://askdavid.com/reviews/book/science-fiction/2539 And check out “Sand in the Desert” as well http://askdavid.com/reviews/book/inspirational-poetry/2540 In addition to promoting the novel, I’m editing two others. I got tagged in a blog hop and answered a few questions about one of them, an adult science [...]
On Monday, August 20th, the first chapter of my new novel, “Relocated,” was on D. Renee Bagby’s YA First Chapters blog. Read it here: http://ya.drb1stchp.com/2012/08/relocated-by-margaret-fieland.html Sand in the Desert, the book of poetry that I wrote to go with “Relocated,” is free on Kindle on August 27th and 28th. Or borrow it free [...]
I love rhyme. I love limericks, and I’ve written quite a few. Here, since I now have the perfect excuse, are a few new ones. Here’s one: There once was a young lad from Kyoto one evening while viewing a photo saw a face so grotesque it resembled a desk and was sure he had [...]
I’ve been thinking about voice a lot lately. Voice, as in writer’s voice, what is it, where does it come from, what influences it. As a writer, I love words and word play, have a good knowledge of English grammar, can speak, read and write French well enough to carry on a conversation, read a [...]
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