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thisbluespirit) wrote2014-04-26 09:48 pm
thisbluespirit) wrote2014-04-26 09:48 pm
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Poetry meme
I felt in need of a writing meme tonight &, as ever, resurrected this one, which often seems to work for me:
1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.
1. Doctor Who
2. Dungeons & Dragons
3. Press Gang
4. Public Eye
5. Spooks
2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)
3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.
4: Bravo! Have a cookie.
1. Doctor Who: “and certainly unworthy words to hear.” (John Berryman)
They’re words he doesn’t care for – at once too large and far, far too small, unworthy of their purpose. He avoids them all he can; hates to say them more than any others. Funny, for they’re such simple words, and everyone must learn them in the end: Goodbye, farewell, adieu.
***
2. Dungeons & Dragons: “Came and were gone. He leant upon a tree.” (WB Yeats)
“Not again!” Eric circled around the tree stump, but Dungeon Master had definitely vanished – as usual. He scowled, and leant back against the nearest tree – then wondered why the others were staring at him in that weird way. He soon found out.
It wasn’t a tree he was leaning against.
***
3. Press Gang: “Freedom to starve or slave!”
“Lynda,” said Mr Sullivan through the door. “You can’t lock everyone in the newsroom every time things go wrong.”
“Planning to starve us out, sir?”
“You remember I have a key?”
“Oh, yes. That’s why I changed the locks, sir. Now, go away or we’ll be here all night again.”
***
4. Public Eye “His thoughts were bare, his words were brittle.” (Robert Service)
“I wouldn’t have said you had a strong sense of identity,” his probation officer says.
Frank doesn’t argue. The words in his head are other people’s, echoes of condemnation – the judge, the governor, a fellow convict. He’s retreated elsewhere, his few words terse. He wants to be alone, that’s all.
***
5. Spooks “The better part with Mary and with Ruth.” (John Milton)
Of course, most training exercises even on the Grid weren’t like EERIE and this one was about analysis and logic, but even so...
Harry surveyed his team and those who’d joined them from Section B. “Two equal groups, I said. You can’t all be on the same side as Ruth!”
***
1: Pick five fandoms. List them in alphabetical order.
1. Doctor Who
2. Dungeons & Dragons
3. Press Gang
4. Public Eye
5. Spooks
2: Visit this site to find your first RANDOM POEM OF POWER. Write down the 5th line (yes, even if it's an E.E. Cummings poem and you wind up with an apostrophe). Repeat five times and - you guessed it - list 'em in alphabetical order! (No cheating, mind! This is a challenge and it's always been about creativity.)
3: I think you can see where this is going. Write a very quick 50-word half-drabble for each fandom (try to do it all in one sitting - make your brain explode!), using the line from the poem as a prompt. You don't have to include it in the half-drabble - it's just inspiration.
4: Bravo! Have a cookie.
1. Doctor Who: “and certainly unworthy words to hear.” (John Berryman)
They’re words he doesn’t care for – at once too large and far, far too small, unworthy of their purpose. He avoids them all he can; hates to say them more than any others. Funny, for they’re such simple words, and everyone must learn them in the end: Goodbye, farewell, adieu.
***
2. Dungeons & Dragons: “Came and were gone. He leant upon a tree.” (WB Yeats)
“Not again!” Eric circled around the tree stump, but Dungeon Master had definitely vanished – as usual. He scowled, and leant back against the nearest tree – then wondered why the others were staring at him in that weird way. He soon found out.
It wasn’t a tree he was leaning against.
***
3. Press Gang: “Freedom to starve or slave!”
“Lynda,” said Mr Sullivan through the door. “You can’t lock everyone in the newsroom every time things go wrong.”
“Planning to starve us out, sir?”
“You remember I have a key?”
“Oh, yes. That’s why I changed the locks, sir. Now, go away or we’ll be here all night again.”
***
4. Public Eye “His thoughts were bare, his words were brittle.” (Robert Service)
“I wouldn’t have said you had a strong sense of identity,” his probation officer says.
Frank doesn’t argue. The words in his head are other people’s, echoes of condemnation – the judge, the governor, a fellow convict. He’s retreated elsewhere, his few words terse. He wants to be alone, that’s all.
***
5. Spooks “The better part with Mary and with Ruth.” (John Milton)
Of course, most training exercises even on the Grid weren’t like EERIE and this one was about analysis and logic, but even so...
Harry surveyed his team and those who’d joined them from Section B. “Two equal groups, I said. You can’t all be on the same side as Ruth!”
***
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I remember this meme being a lot of fun for me the last time it was going around, too.
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I always finds this one really works when I need a push to stop worrying and get writing.
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;-p
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I should stop grumbling, though, or it's going to get very tiresome by the time we're a few more months on... :lol:
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And OUaT was a great thing to help get through the summer when there's less on, too. *sigh*
But even so, me grumbling and sulking till next January or whenever is a plan that could use some revision, I feel. :lol:
(I will look forward to reading your fic sometime in 2015, if we're both lucky.)
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Ah, well. My fic will still be there for you in 2015. Or whenever you finally get to it. :)
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:-)
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Also, I heard there's going to be a Spooks film. It was mentioned in my TV guide, and I don't know how accurate its information is.
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(Sorry to thread jump.)
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Oh, there is going to be a Spooks film. I'm not sure what it'll be like, but Peter Firth will be in it. People have been posting news links on
But, still, should shake the fandom up a bit, right?
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It all makes sense now! :lol:
As long as Harry doesn't suddenly reveal he's a double agent for no reason whatsoever and then leap off a tall building...
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How very apposite that quote for PE is. And how very, very sad your drabble for it.
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How very apposite that quote for PE is. And how very, very sad your drabble for it.
Thank you. It was a very fitting quote. But after that he gets out of prison and finds himself again. And meets Mrs Mortimer, so it's okay. Ish.
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D&D - I don't know the fandom, but the twist is amazing
Press Gang - I do have to watch this at some point (none of your recommendations have steered me wrong yet!)
Private Eye - Grim, but not wallowing in angst, but... Ouch.
Spooks - Another one I have to watch, but this still made me lol
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And if you did know it, it wouldn't be, because it's only what happens to Eric all the time and one of the 6000 reasons he'd like to get out of the Realm now, thanks.
Press Gang - I do have to watch this at some point
Press Gang is brilliant - far and away the best teen show ever made anywhere. (Also it's up on YouTube currently and there's not really much more of it than S&S... *cough* Not that I haven't done more than enough oppressing of you for one year, sorry. But there aren't that many teen shows with female anti-heroes, who are awesome. Wait, there aren't that many female anti-heroes anywhere...)
And thanks! :-) (And, ah, Spooks and Ruth - she likes to think there's not an institution in the country that's safe from her. ♥)