LET'S WRITE CHRISTMAS!
I know we are to write/send out our Christmas manuscripts in June but are you in the mood to do so at that time of the year? Why not write while you are "in the mood?"
I began to put together some drafts of article ideas,have written two new Chrismas short stories, and a few poems while the season is upon us. It seems much easier to stir up the muse when carols are playing on the radio, holiday movies are popping up on several TV channels, and the tree is winking and blinking in multi-colored glory. This is the first season I've attempted this "writing in season" and it works for me!
TRUE JOY
Keep a touch of Christmas
Tucked within your heart.
Remember its sacred meaning
The Holy birth that heralded its start.
Keep a smile, but share some too
With those you meet along the way.
Tell them how God sent his Beloved Son
To give us each the true joy of Christmas Day.
Barbara Deming (c)
Merry Christmas and happy writing about it.
I began to put together some drafts of article ideas,have written two new Chrismas short stories, and a few poems while the season is upon us. It seems much easier to stir up the muse when carols are playing on the radio, holiday movies are popping up on several TV channels, and the tree is winking and blinking in multi-colored glory. This is the first season I've attempted this "writing in season" and it works for me!
TRUE JOY
Keep a touch of Christmas
Tucked within your heart.
Remember its sacred meaning
The Holy birth that heralded its start.
Keep a smile, but share some too
With those you meet along the way.
Tell them how God sent his Beloved Son
To give us each the true joy of Christmas Day.
Barbara Deming (c)
Merry Christmas and happy writing about it.
posted by Barb | 9:34 PM
1 Comments:
Love your poem! I was rereading some of your recent blogs and got back to the one where you list the neat words. I always thought the rays of sunlight coming down through clouds was so beautiful--some people call them "fairy ladders." But the correct word is "crepuscular"--yuck. That also refers to twilight. What an ugly word for something pretty.
Now I didn't think of "voile" as being old-fashioned. But then I was told that "skiff," "a slight gust of wind or shower of rain or snow" was too old-fashioned for me to use in one of my stories, and yet we hear that word on the weather a lot, especially "skiff of snow."
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