Tag: characters
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New Year, New Words
Ah, winter in the South. We’ve gone from freezing temps at Christmas to warm and thunderstorms. Who knows what it will feel like next week? Makes it hard to get comfortable. I post pictures on my Instagram of me writing in my car. Usually in a dimly lit parking lot while I wait for my…
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Just Write
How many times do you find yourself having trouble finding words? Writer’s block is something most people who write will have experience with at some point. Is it doubt? Fear? Lack of inspiration? I came across a poet doing a TedX talk who said writer’s block was none of these things, but was a surplus…
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What did you say?
Most people know what poetry is, or at least what it looks like. But what is speculative poetry? In an editorial for Strange Horizons magazine, Mark Rich defines it this way: “in the speculative poem, the poet presents an unreal world as though presenting the real one.” Speculative poetry is the poetic form of speculative…
Writer Becca Calloway 