Edie Roones

Originally this blog post published June 2016 on the Writers Ink Books website.  As Writers Ink Services takes a vacation, we repeat three of the WIB blogs in the summer of 2016.  After all, reruns are totally watchable again. Creating Emphasis ~ More than the Subject Position Fun with words? Yes, it's possible.  And practical.  Especially practicable when we want to create emphasis. Easiest is simple repetition: "And the highwayman came riding--riding--riding / Up to the old inn-door." (Noyes, "The Highwayman") Pick a key word, and it becomes the key element. Be careful, though, for repetition becomes a key gimmick, as we know from reading "The Highwayman":  "A red-coat troop came marching--marching--marching".  From mid-point on, the repetition is too much. Play with Incremental Repetition: An increment is a small amount.  Incremental Repetition is a small change at the next repeat of the word or phrase. Again, from ...

Sprawling roots, seen and unseen, support the central Tree. For poetry lovers, we have a series of blogs,  Poetry Lesson s, guest-hosted by Emily R. Dunn of Writers Ink Books.  Visit our page on every 5 th   (5th, 15th, and 25th) to see which poem has inspired a lesson in thinking and writing.  We'll also intersperse news about Writers Ink publications. ~~ M. Lee Madder Three Unities. Action. Time. Place. Writing can sprawl into unnecessary digressions. The struggle for writers is to keep that sprawl focused so that every element seeds ideas relevant to the theme. When relating the story of father killing daughter, wife killing husband in revenge, and son killing mother to restore a balance, any writer might be tempted to stray away from the central storyline.  Aeschylus managed to stay focused for his trilogy  The Oresteia , and he didn’t have the Three Unities to guide him. I am tempted, just from that previous sentence, to co...

Fantasy Set In A Renaissance World Weave A Wizardry Web  by Remi Black Least becomes great.  Greatest becomes least. Two wizards travel sharp-bladed roads in  Weave a Wizardry Web . Wizard against sorcerer. Fae against dragon. Wyre against Rhoghieri. As children in the Wizard Enclave, Camisse and her niece Alstera recited that catechism daily.  Yet the war against sorcery seems far from the Enclave, and the current leaders have forgotten that childhood chant. Available on Amazon Kindle.  Click here! For more about the Enclave world of Remi Black,  Click here!