Craft Wednesday #20 Catching Mistakes

This blog needed a place for talking about writing. "Craft Wednesday" will be me talking about all things writing: how to write, why to write, and my own craft journey. I hope to learn and to share experiences with you.  

Catching Mistakes

     One way writing communication is better than verbal communication is that a writer can go back and edit what they have said. If someone tries to go back and edit what they have said in personal, professional, or political conversation conducted by real-time speech, that person can appear -- in the phrasing of some of Charlie Brown's friends -- "wishy-washy."

    This is not to say that a writer can never make mistakes.

Able

Able

Thank you, athletes 
of the 2015 Special Olympic World Games
for inspiring us all

I, too, am
seen as an obstacle
in our bureaucratic courses;

But I am not a hurdle
to run over or avoid.

Told I can't,
I show that I can
each time I step
over lines and labels,
defying easy filing.

My challenge
becomes our challenge;

My triumph
is mine and yours
in the spirit of human ability.

So Serious Saturday #18

Fiction needs a basis in reality. Exercising non-fiction muscles once in a while benefits an active imagination, channeling creative energies as it focuses on a subject. So Serious Saturdays will be an active place for critical essays or writing about reality in the context of real events - even when it is not written on Saturdays.

Type: Television Program Review

Special Olympics

     The crowd cheered as the athletes streamed into the L.A. Coliseum, entering by nation but united in purpose: to demonstrate acceptance, bravery and, above all, joy to a world often missing lacking these essentials.

Extended Fortune From a Cookie

Family knew you before,
Friends know your outer know,
You have known your inner being,
God knows you.

A Unicorn's Tale, Part 11

11.

     We got off at a floor with one room which seemed to run the length and breadth of the whole building. Sound echoed in the tiled room, absorbed only by the floor-to-ceiling gold drapes obscuring the windows. Mikey, Larry, and a hundred other unicorns were already arranged for the court hearing.
     Guards brought me to the front, where I stood to testify. As I was speaking, the other unicorns nodded and murmured amongst themselves. I recognized some of the clean and serious unicorns from the clearing of my first race. Every once and a while some darted harsh glares across the aisle at the defendant.
     I finished my account of my involvement with Larry. It only took a couple of minutes, but by the end of it I was sweating sparkles.

Craft Wednesday #19 Words As the Frame

This blog needed a place for talking about writing. "Craft Wednesday" will be me talking about all things writing: how to write, why to write, and my own craft journey. I hope to learn and to share experiences with you.  

Words As the Frame
OR

A Word on Wordless Communication Modes in Writing

    Sometimes words do not say everything; that is fine, because words work together with other modes to bring the meaning as close to the surface as possible. Consider words the frame for what is inside.

Darrowwood Part Fourteen

14.

            Monica caught up to Jenny in the brown yard between the dormitories and the classrooms. She had to jog a bit as Jenny angled towards the stone meeting hall. They just missed the entrance and the sound of Alendro’s voice emanating from its cold breath, and passed the building entirely, instead moving swiftly down a wooded hall formed by massive pine trunks and branches.

            Monica looked at her cellphone display.  It was about two p.m., but it seemed much darker than that.  To her surprise, there were a couple of bars of cellular reception.

            Monica dialed her mother’s number as she trailed a few quick steps behind Jenny.  “Mom?” she asked.  The enthusiastic greeting was only a recording.  “I guess you and Dad are still on vacation.  Mom, when you get this, please call me back.  It’s urgent.  Something’s wrong with Jenny.”