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Cadi

Through the air, a CadiDragon, suddenly.

  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Sinking in an hourglass

    You're not sinking, you've got this! I think #8 is my favourite of yours so far - the last line brings across so much with really very few words.

    Apr 22, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: insipid kisses and other midnight musings

    They pinpricked my bones, To hollow them so I could Fly, but now that I’m on The precipice if flight, and My bones are full of Porous keyholes, I don’t ...

    Apr 22, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: playlist for travel

    So I just got around to reading this poem in full, and I'd like to let you know that it's excellent. You wonderfully evoke the two different kinds of missing, ...

    Apr 22, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Lizz's Lazy Lizzard Lounge

    Ooh, I love #55 and #58 - both incredibly concise in conveying something that feels quite profound.

    Apr 22, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Hopes and Fears of a Sleeping Dragon

    #23 A rare event: fifteen people in my flat and I - - I am not hiding from them. I have summer and a smile, a glass of sugar syrup, ...

    Apr 22, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Hopes and Fears of a Sleeping Dragon

    #22 Roses are red Parties are fun This poem's a cop-out But I still got it done

    Apr 21, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Hopes and Fears of a Sleeping Dragon

    #21 Sat at your computer fifteen hundred miles from here still it seems that I can hear you speaking loud and clear; can't recall how long it is since we ...

    Apr 20, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Hopes and Fears of a Sleeping Dragon

    #20 Can you ever write too much about good weather? Pristine blue skies baking the pavement, sitting out in a T-shirt after dark, relishing every second of warmth (before it ...

    Apr 19, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Hopes and Fears of a Sleeping Dragon

    #19 Above dark rooves and silhouetted trees dusky blue seeps down to the horizon, melting through gold into pastel pink. With every window thrown wide, the breeze gently bears me ...

    Apr 18, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Hopes and Fears of a Sleeping Dragon

    #18 So much of my life sits in this bright box five inches to a diagonal and barely half a centimetre deep.

    Apr 17, 2018
  • Fiction Discussion Re: What would you ask a fantasy writer?

    @Holysocks - I am probably the worst person to try giving advice on "finishing things", but one tactic I am trying at the moment, courtesy of the wonderful Story Hospital ...

    Apr 17, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: to hell and back again

    Throughout all of these, you're using wonderful imagery to communicate some really emotive stuff. In particular, the images in the poem for 15th Apr ( your life is a shattered ...

    Apr 17, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Hopes and Fears of a Sleeping Dragon

    Aw, thanks, Cat! Sorry you have to have these brain arguments, too! #17 Hand in hand we walk beneath drifting clouds with the sun floating in and out of the ...

    Apr 16, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: a conversation with shame at five in the morning

    Mmmm, delicious creepy shivers from the latest poem. I love the old, terrifying kind of faerie. (I want you to write a whole story about Sharp Ones.)

    Apr 16, 2018
  • NaPoWriMo Archives Re: Hopes and Fears of a Sleeping Dragon

    #16 or, Tricksy Conversations With My Brain You're right, I suck, and never finish anything but I'm going to go ahead and write some words down anyway.

    Apr 15, 2018


I tell the neophyte: Write a million words–the absolute best you can write, then throw it all away and bravely turn your back on what you have written. At that point, you’re ready to begin.
— David Eddings