Crafting Poetry One Syllable at a Time
Posted on March 2, 2016 by Colleen M. Chesebro
K.L. Caley shares a great way to write a short story… USE a writer’s quote as your inspiration! What an excellent idea! This is a MUST read! ❤
“Dolls turn malignant late at night. They stare at you with those glassy eyes. I won’t say they are plotting, but I can’t say they aren’t.” – Stephen King
Jessica rolled over and stared at the curtains, but that didn’t help, now she couldn’t see where they were looking or what they were doing. Giving up she turned back over. Had they moved again? She wasn’t sure, but she thought they might have. Her sister was in the next room, she could go wake her, but that would involve another discussion of how 16-year-olds should not be afraid of dolls, a discussion she would rather not have again. Jessica had suggested to her mother that they get rid of them and her mother had been horrified, the dolls had been a gift from her grandma, how could she want rid of them?
Giving up Jessica got up, turned the light…
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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.
Okay that sends shivers up my back…Yikes!!
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She did a great job! I love new writers they are so full of ideas! 😀 ❤
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I love this idea. Thanks for sharing.
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I have an old doll I found at an auction. One of my girls hated that doll when she was younger -always claiming she was evil. Funny how something once so wonderful can lose its beauty and turning into something frightening. Reminds me of my self.
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I always thought dolls and puppets for that matter were strange entities. Some people are more sensitive to those vibrations than others. This was a good story though! 😀
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I’ve always suspected those things.
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Spooky, huh? 😜
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Great quote and story! Thanks for sharing, Colleen. 😀 xx
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That is partly what inspired the change in the quote challenge. Thank goodness Ronovan stayed on. Makes it a fun and creative challenge! 😀 ❤
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Well Jessica, don’t be embarrassed, the eyes of some dolls creeped me out when I was in my thirties! I used to keep it in the next room when I went to sleep. 🙂 the advantage a thirty years old have over a sixteen year old! We decide what stays in our bedroom!
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