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Key elements to writing a stellar fiction book blurb
Originally posted on readful things blog:
So…you’ve written an awesome book, right? Of course you have. You’ve slaved over it, perfected it, edited it until you can’t even see the words anymore. You have a great cover, your beta readers have sufficiently fluffed your feathers and then you realise…oh shit…(sorry Chris,) that you need to…
MAGNOLIA HERMITAGE
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
I The morning sun has already risen Thirty feet high, and I am too late Too late for Golden Noons, one after another Youth has fled, like old incense Nauseated by the wine of this Earth I hear too dimly the music of men II Their concerns do not concern…
LISTENING TO SONGS OF NEW WORDS
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
I Leaning alone in the closed bamboos Time does not stop, but almost The lute I once played is broken But the bright moon contends with me Full moon and winter plum tree Talking and laughing together I know within my heart Where my path leads, to the source Of…
YOU WHO ARE PROUD AS ALL MEN’S TONGUES
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
Too young to have learned what sorrows means The youth embraces it too tightly Like children afraid of the night They learn to play in the darkness At the Hibiscus Inn, after the summer Of flowers, maybe then One-hearted as ice in a crystal vase You will grow up into…
Reflections #horror #flashfiction #PEN
Originally posted on penned in moon dust:
? Reflections in windows tease and haunt, showing what was, and what is no longer. Demons, creatures, faces and things of terror live in almost everything. It reflects her suffering, an enticing apparition. … begging for release. My father told me they did ‘things’ to bad people on The…
BROODING UPON THE RAIN-SOAKED BELL
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
She brings a broom at dawn to my heart For peach-petals open and blooming After the moon shone from a palace beyond time Dust fills my spirit’s halls from end to end And, for all her jade-whiteness My devotion cannot tell the Court of the Bright Sun How I have…
LAST COMMENTARY ON FREE-WILL
Originally posted on Wuji Seshat:
The core of my heart is now patience and endurance Without these, how can one live? When they departed, Love and God I had to carry on dwelling in this body Then I Said to the wind, ‘Go and overtake them, For they are biding in the shade of the…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 