Day: July 8, 2020

inspiration, poetic forms, poetry, writing exercise, writing prompts

A Sonnet Response

carolyncordon

I like writing prompts, a lot. So when I saw this challenge, ‘EIF Poetry Challenge’ I gave it a good look. Sonnets are lovely. With a sonnet, you know what you’ve taken on. There will be only 14 lines, with a set number of ‘beats’ in set places, and there will be a rhyming scheme of a particular kind (one of two, actually, but not terribly different from each other.

So, the call for a sonnet, how could I resist? The person calling for sonnets is someone I know, as much as one ‘knows’ people online. She had got on board with something I’m working on, and so adding all of this together, of course I’d get a sonnet into the action.

When I got myself ready for this EIF Poetry Challenge, I’d intended looking into a sonnet I might already have, but the keyboard called to me, and changed my mind. It was time to write a new sonnet. And so, in accordance with instructions, here is my sonnet.

Ideas!

I hadn’t necessarily meant to write a poem about Covid-19, but that’s the main thing these days, isn’t it? And that’s the way it went, but with a possibly different slant on it, and bringing another ‘big thing’ into the action. A thing that may or may not be connected.

This is my new sonnet:

No Decent Reason …
What on Earth is the reason, for this disease?
A rhetorical question, but is there a ready answer?
Is it response for doing whatever we please?
Have we become Nature’s deadliest cancer?

We’re killing things with barely any restraint –
With no regard for damage that we’ve caused,
Murdering creatures – no avenue for complaint
Wanting things right now. If only we’d paused …

Covid-19 a symptom of devastations,
Inflicted on habitats, trees cut down.
Some put all the blame on developing nations,
But the destroyer here is the big end of town …

How do you explain to a little kid,
The selfish reasons for what us oldies did …

New Ideas, Story Ideas

New Book Ideas

carolyncordon

At the moment, I have a big writing project going. This project, an anthology, is topical right now, and will be for some time to come. The book is well on the way to being finished, and then printed, launched, and sold, with me making back the money it cost to produce, at every step. Or not, I don’t really know, of course.

But in my mind, I feel this book had to come into the world, and I can afford the production of the book, without any worries at all. Even If I don’t sell any copies at all, it won’t send me broke. So this book is going well, I’m loving it, and I just need to do the finishing off stuff, and send it to my printer.

So now is the time to start thinking about new book projects, right? Well, yes, perhaps, but I already have another book project, begun last year, or perhaps before that really, that I want to work on as well. But now still doesn’t feel like the right time for that particular project. These current times still feel too fraught, to me, to focus on a book project that is a fluffy bit of silliness.

These are serious times, and I feel it’s a time for me to be working on serious things, with my writing. So my mind is looking at possible books to shift to, once the anthology is done and launched, then marketed, a bit … (Marketing pfft, who likes that side of the ‘being a writer’ thing!)

three of my books

Anyway, ideas … my brand new best ever idea for today is something to do with intuition. It started with a name, and a google search, then shifted to other, related ideas, and now I’m sitting here, laptop on lap, writing this blog post about it. But I have other things I have to do almost right now, and as soon as I finish this blog post, I do them. Then after that, there will be a game of Scrabble, at some stage, and then, and then …

That new idea for today may drift away, the way the clouds do, up there in the sky, full of water vapour, but drifting past, and not producing anything at all, beyond a shadow perhaps, if they come between the sun and me. Idea, I have a few, but then again, to few to mention? Haha. Goodbye, time to feed the dog!