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Story, Poem and Inspiration Point of the Week

This week’s picks stayed with me from the minute I read them. Both are stunningly constructed. Congratulations to Noo for her darkly woven prose-poem ‘My Reflection’ and Celticman for his richly impressionist fiction ‘Glitter.’ http://www.abctales.com/story/noo/my-reflection-poetry-monthly http://www.abctales.com/story/celticman/glitter This week’s IP is to write a story or poem inspired by a phrase you’ve found in some junk mail.

Panorama: I’m Broken Inside – Sarah’s Story, BBC 1. 7.30pm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b077r82t/panorama-im-broken-inside-saras-story How many children die whilst in psychiatric care? You probably don’t know. If you were health secretary, you might say something to the effect, none that I know of, or you might guess the answer to be four this year, one of them Sarah Green. You might suggest that the knock on effects of broken Britain (my words) is the number of children seeking psychiatric care...

FOR THE ATTENTION OF ALL POETRY MONTHLY PARTICIPANTS

Just to let you all know there's a shiny new category just for you! Please make sure your work is labelled with it from now on

Chasing Dad, BBCiPlayer, written and directed by Philip Wood.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p03ply8y/chasing-dad-a-lifelong-addiction Chasing Dad, is of course a play on Chasing the Dragon, or in other words, heroin addiction. This is a film about father and son. ‘This is it Phil. This is my life.’ ‘I don’t know who you are.’ But the filmmaker tells those watching. ‘My father’s been addicted to heroin as long as I can remember.’ Later, his dad confirms this. He tells his son, and the camera, he...

Dodgy Dave and his chums.

This is a difficult script to write. You could go with the no suggestion of impropriety, criminality or wrongdoing, and following good business practice [fill in any name here, for example, David Cameron, Pablo Escobar, Vladimir Putin] You could go all jokey and imply we're all in it together and we’ve all done it, signing on, or someone else signing on for you, for example, Bahama residents including a part-time bishop, because you’re too busy...

STORY, POEM and INSPIRATION POINT OF THE WEEK.

Wow, what a week for Poems and Prose. But Story of the week has to go to Storygirl95. I loved this http://www.abctales.com/story/storygirl95/light-shines-even-darkness And the Poem of the week has to be by Slaughter. http://www.abctales.com/story/fidud/slaughter Now then. Inspiration Point is going to be about Horses! Tomorrow is the Grand National.. Love it or hate it I want to know what you feel about HORSES! So Anyhing about these great...

Poetry Monthly

March’s brief was to use repetition in your work. Not as easy as it sounds because rhythm needs to cooperate, too. Thank you to Silver Spun Sand for the gift of her idea. Here are three gorgeous poems chosen for the distinct ways in which they use repetition: Bear’s dynamic poem is a kaleidoscope of rhythm, live with energy: http://www.abctales.com/story/bear/poetess-poetry-monthly Philip Sidney bought us the music of broken glass and the highs...

Story and Poem of the Month

Our Picks this month have been made by Hudsonmoon and here they are: Of all the fine writes this merry month of March, these two hit home for me. Philip Sidney’s poem Bombinations reflected my experience as a boy living in New York City in 1965. Only, my characters had names like President Lyndon Johnson and Sister Rebecca. It gave me a chill to relive it once again. Running off with Robot and Billy from Lost in Space had crossed my mind once or...

Story, Poem and Inspiration Point of the Week

There has been such a variety of great work to read on ABCTales this week. However, Story of the Week goes to Blackjack Davey for his unusual and beautifully composed ‘Cosmic Arboretum’ and Poem of the Week goes to maggyvaneijk for her stunningly emotive ‘Retrospective Drawings.’ Congratulations to you both. http://www.abctales.com/story/maggyvaneijk/retrospective-drawings http://www.abctales.com/story/blackjack-davey/cosmic-arboretum This week'...

Happiness is a warm keyboard = I live to and love to write

There are those books that take you on a journey and whip your imagination into a creative passion. I love when I can forget I am turning pages…when words are no longer typed but are flowing to my brain with little concentration as my eyes move over them and images are formed… I am in the story seeing the characters, putting faces to descriptions and voices to dialogue. My hero is everything I want in a Hero and the Heroine is relatable to me-...

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