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Night Reading
A Pegasus tapped
on my window last night
offered to take me for a ride;
I clambered onto his back
he opened his wings up wide.
We flew across the ocean
to places I’d never been,
He introduced me to people
the likes of which I’d never seen.
I held on tightly to his mane
for the Pegasus outflew a plane.
He took me to the stars and moon
much to my delight,
He told me the secrets of their glow
why they shine so brightly in the night.
The Pegasus flew me around the world
To the cold arctic zone of the northern pole,
to tombs and pyramids in Egypt,
to the beaches in Hawaii
and into the depths of a volcano.
When our night’s journey was done,
The Pegasus returned me home
and flew back into the sky
from whence he had come.
When I awoke, upon my bed,
where before nothing had been,
there lay a book which I promptly read
of all the places I had been.
on my window last night
offered to take me for a ride;
I clambered onto his back
he opened his wings up wide.
We flew across the ocean
to places I’d never been,
He introduced me to people
the likes of which I’d never seen.
I held on tightly to his mane
for the Pegasus outflew a plane.
He took me to the stars and moon
much to my delight,
He told me the secrets of their glow
why they shine so brightly in the night.
The Pegasus flew me around the world
To the cold arctic zone of the northern pole,
to tombs and pyramids in Egypt,
to the beaches in Hawaii
and into the depths of a volcano.
When our night’s journey was done,
The Pegasus returned me home
and flew back into the sky
from whence he had come.
When I awoke, upon my bed,
where before nothing had been,
there lay a book which I promptly read
of all the places I had been.
Book Mark
I read it in a book once
of kings and queens
and knights of old;
around the table at which they sat
their medieval story was told.
I read it in a book once
of planets and aliens
and spaceships of glory;
a galactic war between good and evil
was the climax of their story.
I read it in a book once
of hobbits and wizards
swamps and scary things;
I travelled a land called Morder
and vanquished the evil ring.
I read it in a book once
of tombs and treasures
and priceless recoveries;
thousands upon thousands of stories
of magic discoveries.
In distant lands far away
where secrets are revealed;
I read it in a book once -
I know it to be real.
of kings and queens
and knights of old;
around the table at which they sat
their medieval story was told.
I read it in a book once
of planets and aliens
and spaceships of glory;
a galactic war between good and evil
was the climax of their story.
I read it in a book once
of hobbits and wizards
swamps and scary things;
I travelled a land called Morder
and vanquished the evil ring.
I read it in a book once
of tombs and treasures
and priceless recoveries;
thousands upon thousands of stories
of magic discoveries.
In distant lands far away
where secrets are revealed;
I read it in a book once -
I know it to be real.
Audiobooks Can Help You Write Better
How can listening to an audiobook help improve your writing?
Truth be told it never occurred to me that it could be a useful tool. Until one day while working on the Sword of Tilk Trilogy I realized I could hear the narrator of the audiobook I was listening to at work read the book as I wrote it.
This gave me pause.
I visualize each scene and snippet of dialogue before and as I write it. It had never occurred to me to hear it as it might be read for an audiobook.
I found that I liked it.
Hearing someone else read it helped me to determine where the emphasis lay. It helped me find areas which needed strengthening as well as areas which might require a lighter touch.
It gave greater voice to my characters. Just as visualizing helps to describe them, listening to the reader in my head helped me hear the cadence and rhythm of their voices. This in turn helped me see and better describe their facial expressions and body movements.
It was also beneficial in writing action and descriptive passages. A good, professional audiobook reader is capable of intensifying those moments with as much emotion and drama as when reading dialogue.
It brings yet another dimension to writing and breathing life into your writing. That which heightens your writing experience will be passed on to the reader experience.
Truth be told it never occurred to me that it could be a useful tool. Until one day while working on the Sword of Tilk Trilogy I realized I could hear the narrator of the audiobook I was listening to at work read the book as I wrote it.
This gave me pause.
I visualize each scene and snippet of dialogue before and as I write it. It had never occurred to me to hear it as it might be read for an audiobook.
I found that I liked it.
Hearing someone else read it helped me to determine where the emphasis lay. It helped me find areas which needed strengthening as well as areas which might require a lighter touch.
It gave greater voice to my characters. Just as visualizing helps to describe them, listening to the reader in my head helped me hear the cadence and rhythm of their voices. This in turn helped me see and better describe their facial expressions and body movements.
It was also beneficial in writing action and descriptive passages. A good, professional audiobook reader is capable of intensifying those moments with as much emotion and drama as when reading dialogue.
It brings yet another dimension to writing and breathing life into your writing. That which heightens your writing experience will be passed on to the reader experience.
