Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on February 17, 2016 by Colleen M. Chesebro
Welcome! This is an open invitation to join in on our blogging event called, “Writer’s Quote Wednesday” and Ronovan Writes’ event called, “BeWoW” or “Be Writing on Wednesday.” This is your chance to highlight your favorite author’s quotes that give inspiration to you as a writer. Do you feel like your writing is getting stale? Are you looking for inspiration to keep writing? Then you have come to right spot!
Are you ready to join in?
All you have to do is find your favorite quote. Find something that truly speaks to you. This does not have to pertain just to writing. It can be any kind of quote as long as it made an impact on you. Then, write a post and include your quote.
There are no rules to follow. Either create your own sayings (because after all, we are all writer’s here) or use a quote from a famous author that you find gives you inspiration. Just make sure that credit is given for other’s work. You can use Fotoflexer or Picmonkey, or any other program that you wish to make your own images. Click the links to go to the programs.
Fellow blogger, Sacha Black has an excellent tutorial on how to make photo-quote images. Click here to learn how to make exciting images with your own photos and how to add words.
Each Wednesday, I will post the prompt and all you have to do is take part! You have from that Wednesday until the following Monday night to post your quotes. I will share your images on social media for added exposure. Beginning this week, as part of the Writer’s Quote Wednesday post, I will include the links to the blogs that took part in last week’s post. Time is of the essence in my writing and I find that I need every spare minute I can squeeze out of the day. I no longer have the time to do a separate post for the Wrap-up.
Please copy the badge above and include it on your own post. Tag your post on your own blog as “Writer’s Quote Wednesday,” so we can find the posts in the reader. On your own blog post do a ping-back to THIS post and make sure to “like” or “comment” on everyone else’s post. (A pingback is when you embed (or copy) the HTTP:// address of my weekly prompt into your own blog post).
Make sure to check my weekly prompt (this post) to see if your entry is there. You can copy the HTTP:// address of your blog post and include it in the comments section of my original weekly prompt if that works better for you.
Since Ronovan, from Ronovan Writes and I have joined forces he has been linking his #BeWoW blog share (Be Wonderful on Wednesday) now to include: Be Writing on Wednesday. If you would like to combine both posts, feel free to do so and link them to my post. I will make sure and add you to the quote wrap-up I do each Tuesday. Please make sure and check out Ron’s blog for more writing inspiration and motivation!
FIRST, LET’S
CHECK OUT ALL THESE FABULOUS WRITERS WHO SHARED QUOTES LAST WEEK:
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My quote this week is all about the “magic” of words. You know what I am talking about. Words strung together like a shiny necklace meeting and joining to form an image in your mind. That image propels you through a story from the beginning to the end. That is the true MAGIC! When your words mean something to the reader you know you have reached them through their hearts.
I can’t tell you how many times I have a read a book where I find myself becoming emotional. I cry, laugh, and even ache with the pain of the words written. It is an experience I would think all authors desire from their readers. I consider it a gift. To evoke emotions like that from a reader signifies a deep bond with the written word.
Friend and blogger, Charles Yallowitz, author of the fantasy series, The Legends of Windemere, once said to me, “Writing fantasy is freeing.”
I pondered his statement for quite a long time. As a student learning the art of the fantasy genre, I realized that what he was talking about was the fact that as a writer you create what did not exist before in your mind with the intention of sharing it with the rest of the world. Wow! I realized how brave you have to be to expose that part of your heart to the rest of the world!
That is where the magic comes in. The Encarta Dictionary defines magic as, “A special, mysterious, or inexplicable quality, talent or skill.” I believe that we word weavers are creating magic with every stroke of our pen, or keyboard, to be more exact.
The magical energy our words create drip with sound and rhythm, conjuring up images that free us from our daily existence. If you think about it most magic spells are done by reciting words. Words have power.
So, the next time you sit down to write just remember you are the magician, the necromancer of words. Use your power wisely!
Magic is why I write. Magic is why I read.
SHARE your MAGIC with the rest of the world!
TELL US ABOUT A QUOTE THAT INSPIRED YOU THIS WEEK!
Thanks for stopping by. Ronovan and I loved seeing all of you!
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Colleen M. Chesebro is an American Poet who loves crafting paranormal fantasy and magical realism, cross-genre flash fiction, syllabic poetry, and creative nonfiction. Colleen sponsors a weekly syllabic poetry challenge, called Tanka Tuesday, on wordcraftpoetry.com where participants learn how to write traditional and current forms of haiku, senryu, haiga, tanka, gogyohka, tanka prose, renga, solo-renga, haibun, cinquain, Etheree, nonet, and shadorma poetry. Colleen's syllabic poetry has appeared in the Auroras & Blossoms Poetry Journal, and in “Hedgerow, a journal of small poems.” She’s won numerous awards from participating in the Carrot Ranch Rodeo, a yearly flash fiction contest sponsored by carrotranch.com. In 2020, she won first place in the Carrot Ranch Folk Tale or Fable category, with her story called “Why Wolf Howls at the Moon.” Colleen is a Sister of the Fey, where she pursues a pagan path through her writing. When she is not writing, she is reading. She also loves gardening and crocheting old-fashioned doilies into works of art.
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Brilliant quote, Colleen. 🙂
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Thank you, Judy! ❤️
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Moments of Challenge. http://wp.me/p4y9jb-scR
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Lovely post about a lovely event! Enjoy.
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Thank you so much for sharing! ❤
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You’re quite welcome!
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V nice quote Colleen and i loved that book on which you wrote that quote 🙂
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Thank you! This was a free download from pixabay.com. ❤
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Okay, you got me this week.. sure hope I did this correctly! ❤
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http://wp.me/p4ayEo-154 the short link to my offering, as I do not see the pingback has worked
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It is there. I just got home so I am late getting all these approved. I am so sorry! ❤
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Yes! I got your ping back…. well done!
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Coolbeans… I shall remember to take a chill pill next time. 😉
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No worries. Half the time they work and the other half of the time they don’t! LOL!
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Hi Colleen! Thanks for another great review. I can’t wait to check out the posts! 🙂 xx
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By the way, your quote in the book is fabulous! 😀
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Thank you Vashti! You just get me is all! LOL! ❤
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I do get you. 😉
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That makes me smile! Thanks, Vashti! ❤️❤️❤️
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“The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink, and somebody to love you.” —Brendan Behan
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What a lovely quote! Thanks so much and welcome. ❤
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Thank you. It’s a lovely project that you’ve created.
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Thank you. How nice of you to say. I hope you will visit often. 😀 ❤
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I will.
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“Necromancer of words”…I like that!
Lovely post Colleen 🙂
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Thanks, Lisa! ❤️😉
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Hi Everyone,
Here is my quote for this week..
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Beautiful thoughts, quote, and presentation in the open book. This week I didn’t do a usual kind of quote post (or is there such a thing?). My Wednesday post was in celebration of International Year of Pulses.. .I used quotes as a core part of the post, not because it was Wednesday, but because I have discovered with WQW that I enjoy presenting information with quotes. It was also a way of highlighting some of my favourite vegetarian cookbooks. I’ll send my link in a ping.
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That sounds like fun, Janice. These quotes are so great. They get you thinking in many different ways! ❤
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Thanks Colleen. Quoting is fun–you get to share ideas, literary gems, authors, books, writing styles and so on.
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It is fun! And different every time!
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Is this considered as guest blogging or something else?
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This is considered as participating in a quote challenge. You do your own post with a link back to mine. ❤️
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Got it. Thank you.
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Here is my participation 😉 http://tienny.com/quotes-review-smile-opportunity-door-do-hope-prepare-gentle/
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How did I miss these quote things. I love quotes. May I join the fun? 😊
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Please do! Just link to my post and I will mention you in my post next week! Just have fun. ❤️❤️❤️
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Thank you Colleen. I will do that.
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Great! ❤️
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Love your quote. Sorry, I am way behind once again.
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Oh my gosh! No worries! With all my writing I can’t begin to keep up! ❤️
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Thanks for following my blog, but I never post on it. I’m a private type of dog. I only have a blog so people will think I’m cool.
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Hello Colleen, here is my first entry below for the Writers quote, after posting I realize that I had no precise idea when submissions are made *I think I am 8 to 12 hours ahead of the US. Which days do we publish them? Thank you
http://acookingpotandtwistedtales.com/2016/02/24/my-writers-cold-feet/
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No worries. Just link to my post or make sure you tag it as Writer’s Quote Wednesday. I can find you in the reader then. ❤️
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Oh good. Let me tag it properly. Thank you 🙂
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You’re welcome. ❤️
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