Salve! Here’s today’s snippet of what’s happening in the novel! Still making good progress on the goal of 80,000 for NaNoWriMo2017 with 27ish days to go! As a reminder, be sure to subscribe to the blog for up to date news in your inbox!
Not sure what’s going on? Check out my other novels to learn all the background of the Steam Empire Chronicles!
Enjoy the poem Train – A NaNoWriMo2017 Poem Exploration.
Salve!
Not part of Project 27, but still something to work on – I’m enjoying exploring poetry! Hopefully you like it too!
NaNoWriMo2017 Poems: 4
Read the Synopsis for Laurel Emperor!
Salve!
NaNoWriMo2017 is in full swing, and I’ve finally managed to sit down and pound out a few words. Here’s a brief synopsis of Laurel Emperor, my latest (continuing) project.
As always, criticisms and critiques most welcome (it’s a work in progress after all!)
Current Word Count: 53,002
Tonight’s Poem – Eleven and the start of NaNoWriMo2017!
Happy NaNoWriMo2017!
I’m doing this with both poetry and novel writing to try and keep it up and break up the monotony and give me some variety of writing. So another Project 27 Poem today. Let me know what you think! Inspired by some events in the last few days.
Words Typed: 200
Poems: 3 (including this one)
Project 27 Continues – Also, an update on NaNoWriMo2017 this year!
Salve!
Today I have another poetry attempt for you. C&C always appreciated.
In other news, I’ll be back on the writing bandwagon for NaNoWriMo2017 this fall. After all, Laurel Emperor won’t write itself! We’ll just have to get it in around all this poetry.
Another attempt at poetry after you all enjoyed my last one.
Hi all,
Everyone really seemed to like my last effort at poetry, so I figured, why not try again?
Goal: 27 pieces of poetry
Theme/Topic: Teaching/School
Why? For kicks! Who knows, I may publish a book out of it (He says, jokingly)
Anyways, here’s today’s attempt – C&C always appreciated, especially as I’m new to this part of writing. I find the experience very free flowing, it’s best when I don’t stop for any reason.
Middle
Forever Stuck
In the middle
Always playing
Second fiddle
Smart and sassy
Young and quick
Quick to give those boys a trip
To the nurse’s office they go
When she breaks their ankles on the field
Or the playground
She goes fast
They go slow
Brothers and sisters
Older than she
Have already been through the halls
She graces now.
But new halls they are,
New friends, new places, new problems
World wise at the age of two times five
Desperate, thirsty for knowledge, she…
Strives.
Stuck in the middle
Playing second fiddle
But will her teacher see
A member of the background chorus she will not be
But rather
A soloist
A foray into poetry and an update on what I’ve been up to!
Salve!
School is back in full swing, along with my own lovely ‘adult school’ (Read: Grad School), so time for writing and blogging has been shrunk, but not gone. I’m still planning on doing NaNoWriMo2017, and I’m looking forward to it. We’ll see how it goes!
Today I have something different for you. In my most recent graduate class, a course on the Foundations of Social Justice Teaching, we had an incredibly interesting opportunity to hear poetry by Michelle Banks – an actress, poet, and native Washingtonian. The poem was entitled “On the Question of Race“, and after hearing, we were asked to write our own. The only ‘requirement’ is that you open with the same stanza and close with the same stanza (substituting white for your own selection).
Join us as we learn more about Hazel West’s new book – Scars of War!
Salve!
Today we have a special feature for one of my best author friends – Hazel West. Hazel and I have worked together before, beta reading for several of my and her novels. So of course I offered to help her out on her book tour for her latest novel, Scars of War! It’s the 3rd novel in her Modern Tales of Na Fianna series.
Where I remind myself that turning the internet off can be incredibly beneficial!
Salve! Greetings from these, the bittersweet dog-days of summer, the last gasp of freedom before school, the final combustion of happiness and carefree family time, the… you get the point.
Enjoy the first episode of “Today’s Writing!” with me, your friendly Roman Steampunk Author!
Salve! Our gallant heroes (or antiheroes, depending on your preference) are laying plans and enacting schemes, but this time around, they’re chasing their dreams.
Dreams of a unified Rome once again. (46k and counting!)
Continue reading “Today’s Writing: Something’s Afoot in Thrace…”
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