Doggerel Contest Winner
Issue #1: 01/01/01
Making
Histories
By J.S. Burke
Women
and Childbearing
in Fantasy
By Bryn Neuenschwander
Matching
Your Money to Your World
By Ron Brown
Capturing
Time for the Muse
By Vicki McElfresh
In
Praise of Praise:
A Second Look at Critiquing
By Lazette Gifford
Fantasy:
Building
a Better Beast
By Sarah Jane Elliott
Horror:
State
of the Horror Genre
By Ron Brown
Poetry:
Poetry
and Everyday Life
By Jennifer St.
Clair Bush
Romance:
Your
Characters Are
Not Puppets
By Anne M. Marble
Science Fiction:
Are We
Going Somewhere
Nice?
By Bob Billing
Stage & Screen:
The
Promise of Premise
By Robin Catesby
Suspense & Mystery:
The
Motives of Villains
and Heroes in Suspense Fiction
By Shane P. Carr
Young Adult & Children:
The
Gulf
By Justin
Stanchfield
Young Writer's Scene:
Five
Practical Tips for Young Writers
By Beth Adele Long
Book Reviews
Web Site Reviews
How
Critique Circles Work
By Jim Mills
Doggerel Contest Winner
News from Forward Motion
The Rules were simple:
Write a poem about writing, using the work of another poet as your base. Any published poet is fair game -- Whitman, Shakespeare, Belloc, either Browning, Andrew Marvell . . .
And the Winner is:
Sittin'
There, by Allison Starkweather
(Diving Board, by Shel Silverstein)
You’ve been in front of that keyboard
Making sure the font is right.
You’ve made sure that you know the plot.
You’ve made sure that the story's tight.
You’ve made sure that you’re in the mood.
You’ve made sure you know the motivation.
You’ve made sure that you’ve had some food,
And that it’s in the right location-
And you’ve been sittin’ there day and night
Doin’ everything...but WRITE.
©2001,
Allison Starkweather
