katie

@Daeus

And then we have knightings,
And sparrings with words,
Though sometimes those sparrings
Grow rather absurd.

@bluejay get over here, we’re ruining your topic. 😀

@kate-flournoy

First we ate ice cream
Then cookies then candy
Now we eat mangos
Oh, boy! They are dandy

First we ate ice cream
Then cookies then candy
Now we eat mangos
Oh, boy! They are dandy

@Daeus

*urgggggghhhh* *facepalm*
Either you deliberately misconstrue my words, or my computer does.

No prizes for guessing which. 😉

‘I hammered into Google
‘Christian writing teens’;
It brought me to this awesome site—
The website of my dreams.

Excitedly I clicked the link,
And had a look around.
I eagerly perused the forum
And squealed at what…

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Mangos are perfect! I totally agree.

@hannah-c That’s great. I’m glad this worked out for you.

Per-fect-o-mungo.

Yes. That is a word.

How about this?

I made myself a member
Without a second thought
Sometimes that ends in trouble
But this time it did not

@hannah-c Well I was writing for 45 minutes, but I got 389.

… Not very good really, but I regard anything as better than nothing.

@hannah-c Oh, I missed you. Feel free to tag me whenever you do this cause I’m normally open. It looks like you started 15 minutes ago. Well, I’ve been writing for a half an hour, so I’ll just keep going 15 minutes more.

Ah yes. Writing. I need to do that. Anybody up for an hour or so?

@hannah-c, were you wanting to do it at this time, or was it some other time?

The first two stanzas are great, but the second one needs a little tweaking. I’ll probably be back sometime tonight. Gotta do some writing.

Oooh, hm… let’s see @bluejay…

‘I hammered into Google
‘Christian writing teens’;
It brought me to this awesome site—
The website of my dreams.

Excitedly I clicked the link,
and had a look around.
I eagerly perused the forum
and squealed at what I found.

I signed up straight away;
of this site became a member.
My password was sent…

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Good thoughts, @Daeus.
I was… it hurt. I was so disappointed. It’s difficult to remember that there have been political disappointments in the past, and America survived them.
But there have been—Ronald Reagan, for instance. He ran like this, and lost under pretty similar circumstances, and the next time he ran he won in a landslide. So…[Read more]

@hannah-c I don’t know if I can concentrate for three hours, but I should be able to handle 1 1/2.

@hannah-c I’ve been wanting to write more during the day. Maybe I’ll join you.

What exactly is it you’re looking for @bluejay? If you want to bring this thing to perfection, it’s gonna take a lot of work. First of all, there’s not much form to it – just two sets of rhyme and no real meter to speak of.

You can do free verse that doesn’t have these, but then you’ve gotta really use some juicy words in your poem and jam pack…[Read more]

@hannah-c Oh, also, Tessa, Kate, and I regularly do this for an hour every night from 8:00 (ET) – 9:00. The only exceptions are that it’s just on weekdays and on Tuesdays, Tessa can’t do it at the normal time, so I’ll do it and then post my word count and she will do it later and post her’s. Also, Tessa and Kate aren’t doing it this week, but I’ll…[Read more]

@hannah-c Tessa pretty much said it. It’s a time commitment. If it were a word war, I’d lose every time unless I wrote so fast I ended up with junk. The goal is just not to loose focus the whole time. That can be hard if you are writing for an hour, but with this, you have accountability so you really have to stay on track. It works. You can also…[Read more]