Brain in a Fog, Guess I'll Write Poetry

This entry is part 81 of 81 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

This is what happens when I get tired and my brain shuts down. I end up writing poetry instead of fiction or research or anything useful or productive. At least something happened, but I feel woefully remiss towards certain people who were hoping for some cheering material soon, who are also not fond of poetry.

I’m very sorry
I hope you’ll forgive
The muse slipped out
O’ my ‘mind like a sieve’

March 24, 2014

So it started with this story that had played in my head overnight, but it was too long and complex to justify writing, so in the morning when it started coalescing into a poem on me, I memorized the lines and stanzas in my head and at work, I wrangled them into something I liked. All 136 lines of it.

I sent it to lithiumlaughter who likes poetry and she blessed me with an amazing review that inspired poem #2: "Tale of Domestic Life in a Series of Coffee Cups."

Did some research for thecatisacritic before brain stopped cooperating again.

Word Counts:

• Fiction: 0 words
• Poetry: 155 lines | 905 words
• Blog: 90 words

March 25, 2014

The idea of a poetry collection for Kingdoms and Thorn pestered me and then another poem did. I wrote it down and loved it.

I peeked inside the books of Billy Collins and got a little more inspired. There went four more small poems.

Did more research and chatting with thecatisacritic.

Tried two more poems with less than great success. I wrote "The Cup" and promptly deleted most of it. "Daughter" started out better—twice—before I gave up on it.

This evening, the mass market edition of Dowse and Bleed arrived. It's stunning and full of little fixes I need to make, but it is stunning. I love it.

Word Counts:

• Fiction: 0 words
• Poetry: 281 lines | 538 words
• Blog: 72 words

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Invisible Ficathon Reveals

So the Invisible Ficathon reveals have finally happened!

My assignment:

Title: Knight in Rusted Armor
Fandom: Averil's Atonement by Anne Shirley
Fandom Source: Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Summary: Averil Lester had always been his. She'd been his since they were children barely out of the nursery and Maurice wasn't going to let that go just because a jellyfish duke decided to come along and steal her heart.

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Treats I Wrote:

Title: From Eyes of Blue
Fandom: The Horn of Joy by Matthew Maddox
Fandom Source: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L'Engle

Summary: Zyll was frightened, not of her gift but of the vision it brought her.

 

Title: Annual ‘Faxfic Slam - 1918 PD
Fandom: The Havenite 'Faxes Colloquially Known as "Smutsies"
Fandom Source: Honor Harrington series by David Weber

Summary: It’s time for the 1918 PD Annual ‘Faxfic Slam in Noveau Paris! Pick a pairing and write up to the smutsie name. Remember the fun of a slam is to reply to other ‘fics and better yet to one-up them. Do us proud!

 

Title: A Different Tune
Fandom: It was a Dark and Stormy Night by Snoopy
Fandom Source: Peanuts (comics)

Summary: Sometimes Daddy can be just a wee bit overprotective.

 

Title: Poem: Twitterpated
Fandom: It was a Dark and Stormy Night by Snoopy
Fandom Source: Peanuts (comics)

Summary: Birds don’t kiss, right? But if they did…

 

Title: A Haiku Inspired by the "Kisses Rang Out"
Fandom: It was a Dark and Stormy Night by Snoopy
Fandom Source: Peanuts (comics)

Summary: A haiku inspired by Snoopy's A Dark and Stormy Night where unexplained kisses rang out at the beginning of one of the tales.

 

Title: Have Her Cake and Eat It Too
Fandom:  Averil's Atonement by Anne Shirley
Fandom Source: Anne of Green Gables series by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Summary: Averil bakes a cake—with mixed results.

 

Title: The Law of Sympathetic Magic
Fandom:  The Stonebender Family stories by Jubal Harshaw
Fandom Source: a Robert Heinlein story

Summary: The law of sympathetic magic is this: it cannot be undone.

 

Title: Meta: Preston of the Spaceways, a Retrospective
Fandom:  Preston of the Spaceways, Manticoran holodramas
Fandom Source: Honor Harrington series by David Weber

Summary: The idea behind Preston of the Spaceways: The Holovid was to shake up people’s expectations and make them realize we were doing something different. On Old Earth, adaptations would be called ‘The Movie’ when it was the iconic adaptation, and that’s really what we’re trying to do here: the iconic adaptation.

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Gifts I Received:

Title: Linked
Author: ChokolatteJedi
Fandom:  Galaxy Quest (TV)
Fandom Source: Galaxy Quest (movie)

Summary: Tawney has some things she'd like cleared up

 

Title: What Both Will Be and Is
Author: thinkatory
Fandom:  The Horn of Joy by Matthew Maddox
Fandom Source: Kairos (O'Keefe) series by Madeleine L'Engle

Summary:

All will be well. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For the fire is roses, roses, and the sight of blue eyes can change what both will be and is. Matthew Maddox, The Horn of Joy, 1868.

Excerpts from a history of tesseracts, and those changed by them.

 

Title: On Names; or, why it rains at a hanging
Author: Raven (singlecrow)
Fandom:  Eddisian mythology
Fandom Source: Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner

Summary: Eugenides, who comes as a thief in the night.

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