A little late but finally up :>
Hello, Write Edge readers! I know, I’m a day late in posting content on this newly revised schedule. I’ve been in the thick of writing new stories to submit them to writing contests, and I had a deadline to submit to one last night before midnight. With so many other things going on in my non-writing life, I had to make a choice and made the incredibly difficult decision to meet the contest deadline and post this today.
Some of you who subscribe to The Write Edge and one of its extension blogs may have seen the content up but not gotten the notification from here that I’d posted this week’s material. No worries! I’m here now. :>
First, I’m sharing my latest creative writing with you. It’s not often I write poetry, and I don’t think I’m particularly good at it, but occasionally I run across a writing prompt that induces poetry even from me. :> Here’s a stanza from today’s poem:
Be careful.
It brings forth
Monsters,
Angels,
Murderers,
Healers,
Infidels,
Rebels,
The bad;
The good.
Read the whole poem now on The Write Edge Writing Workshop!
I’ve posted a new book review for you. Today I share my thoughts on The Broken Girls by Simone St. James. Here’s the opening to my review of the mystery:
When an abandoned boarding school gets bought by a mysterious benefactor, a journalist decides to do a story on the transaction. She has a personal attachment to the school, and when a body is discovered on the grounds her article almost becomes a crusade. Author Simone St. James strings together a series of unrelated events and forces them into the well-written but failed novel The Broken Girls.
Read the full review now on The Write Edge Bookshelf!
Lastly, I’m sharing my newest parenting adventures with you. This past Wednesday, one month to the day after the terrible tragedy in Parkland, Florida, students across the country staged peaceful protests to demand that our government make concrete choices to prevent this kind of attack. As one of my kids prepared to protest, it made me think of another tragedy. Here’s a quick excerpt:
Unfortunately, as so many have pointed out, news of school shootings has become common enough that people’s eyes no longer retain the spark of indignance for too long. They get indignant, they get upset, they march, they raise their voices…and then they go back to their normal lives. Until it happens again.
I see the dullness of resignation in people’s faces when we talk about school shootings now.
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Thanks, as always, readers!
E.R.G.
