Month: Jul 2021

The Glider.

On By Joseph R. MasonIn Poetry3 Comments
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Silence, gliding through the air.

Wings outstretched, not really there,

Thermals take me up and up

High into the atmosphere.

Soaring to heights where the air is thin

Tweaking aileron, tinkering fin.

Lost in a sky of azure blue,

I wish that you could be here too

To see the sights that I can see

Up in my glider, you, and me.

To see the fields a patchwork brown

With tiny people in a tiny town.

And then descending, down we glide

Like tiny children on a slide

We giggle, we chortle, we laugh with joy.

Back to the ground with the hobbledehoy.

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Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Soaring – July 22, 2021 – Eugi’s Causerie (amanpan.com)

Writing scenes ahead of time…Seeing the future!

On By Joseph R. MasonIn Not my work!, Plagiarism, Writing

Another interesting article I thought worth a share.

Have you ever worked on a story, then all of a sudden you have an idea for something that will happen several chapters ahead? As I’ve said before, I always know the ending of my stories. Although sometimes it changes slightly, but it stays in the same ballpark. I’ve written several scenes ahead on my […]

Writing scenes ahead of time…Seeing the future!

What Is “Bad” Writing?

On By Joseph R. MasonIn Not my work!, Plagiarism, Writing4 Comments

I saw this article and it resonated well with me……

Today on Twitter, someone called out an author for his “bad writing” and, as an author of many years with five published novels, I began to wonder what that term meant.  Was the story not logical or appealing or was it more a grammatical problem?  The tweeter stated that had the story been properly edited, […]

What Is “Bad” Writing?