Looking back on November: Poem a day
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...
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My Fairy Muse
Fairies, dancing through the light that breaks through the forest. Calling others to join them. How can I resist? I love fantasy, magic, flight, and butterflies. Fairies combine all these elements into...
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2013: Looking Forward
Today begins a new year, a new Age. A time for re-evaluations, making new goals and adjusting old ones. I, for one, didn’t do very well on the goals I set in 2012. Rather than do a repeat, with likely...
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Winter Rules
Winter scene in Blue (Photo credit: BrunoDelzant) Winter Winds Here comes the wind Not the balmy wind of Spring Not the sweaty wind of Summer, Not the vigorous wind of Fall Winter rules with...
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Meet Melanie Hamilton, Our Muse Conference Moderator
Every October, we engage in a week-plus of utter madness and frenetic activity with the Muse Online Writers Conference — a free, international event filled with close to forty hours of real-time live...
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Spotlight on Saleema
Today we are featuring another of our Muse Conference workshop participants. During the week of our workshop, we challenged poets to write three different forms. We chose winners for each, and...
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Saleema and Persona poems
On February 5, I introduced Saleema, one of our workshop winners. I noted that Saleema was a winner in our Persona category. Today I’d like to share that winning poem with you, as well as a follow up...
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How to Generate Rhymes
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...
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The Evolution of a Story pt 1
I have multiple novels in various stages. Sometimes I have a basic idea, but not enough for characters or plot. I always write these down anyways. If I’m bored, I’ll pull up my idea file and see if any...
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The Mystery- Dealing with Grief
The Mystery By Lin Neiswender You were the cutest thing So happy with a simple toy like green grass A carpet to comfort your feet Leaves blowing down sidewalks Yours to track by scratchy sound When...
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Poetry Month: Book Spine Poetry
If you’re not aware, April is National Poetry Month. Next week is also National Library Week. AtYourLibrary.org is celebrating both with a contest. Use the books from your library to compose a Book...
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Boston Marathon
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...
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Mary’s Poetry Month Success
I was very pleased with my poetic productivity in April. Here’s the breakdown. I competed in daily challenges on the Sims 3 forums. These consisted of weekly themes, and daily styles/forms. Not all...
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Witness to the Art and Dedication
I have a nine-year-old son and a husband who both love my attention. I know they both have Quality Time as one of their top love languages (and mine!), so it is important. However, this has made it...
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Get the Lead Out
When I was in eighth grade, the school held a writing contest for students to go to a local Young Writer’s Conference. The topic we had to write a story on was Get the Lead Out. I didn’t have any...
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Sign up for the Muse Online Writers Conference Now!
We are just over a week away from the 2013 Muse Online Writers Conference. For those unfamiliar with the conference, it’s a free week-long event with workshops and chats. The workshops are...
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Muse Con Learning: Facebook Fan Page
One of the things I took from Muse Con this year was how to make use of an Author Page on Facebook, presented by C.J. Ellisson. I had always thought it wasn’t worth having an author page until I had a...
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Bernadette Meyer’s Writing Experiments
Bernadette Meyer is an avant-guard poet associated with the New York school of poets. http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/bernadette-mayer http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/06/04/specials/koch-ny.html I...
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Chiaroscuro
Chiaroscuro: The contrast and balance between light and dark. Within us resides a tapestry of darkness and light. It is woven into our hopes, fears, dreams, and secrets. To understand the tapestry...
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A Few Poems for the Holidays
Saint Nick’s Christmas Excess One Christmas night, fat old Saint Nick ate so much roast goose he got sick, thus was forced to belay that night’s ride in his sleigh, rushed the gifts all to FedEx....
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