13: The Game Plan
1. When in a funk, should a writer wait for inspiration or write about the size, shape and color of the writer’s block?
2. The best a poet can hope for is to speak broken poetry because poetry is a pre-verbal language.
3. My newspaper writing: On the front page today, in the woodpile tomorrow.
4. THIS really warms my heart!
5. If the photo below of the Scrabble playing party I went to on Sunday was a 
Meyers Briggs personality analysis, the players in the forefront would be the thinkers and the ones in the background would be feelers.
6. Question for Facebook: Can I like your like on my comment?
7. “Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.” Eleanor Roosevelt
8. Could the poetry of matter be shadow like the moon is a muse to the sun’s glare?
9. I write about petals and nectar the way Van Morrison writes about jelly roll. See the latest HERE.
10. “I grew tired of trying to be so perfect. I realized in the end it just ain’t worth it. – Floyd singer songwriter Morgan Wade. More HERE.
11. My husband and I see other people / while I play scrabble he plays golf / when I’m on the verge of a triple word score / he’s looking for partners to make up a foursome. – Read more of this poem that won me $100 in a Blacksburg Poetry Slam contest in 2005 HERE.
12. “If Mitt Romney were president right now, he would be seen as the second coming of Ronald Reagan. There would be parades in the streets. The kids would have severely conservative tattoos. Men would be saying “gosh.” … But Barack Obama won the election. The Affordable Care Act hasn’t been repealed. Taxes were raised in 2013. Regulation has proceeded apace. The Keystone XL pipeline is no closer to being built. And yet the economy is roaring. The ambitious economic promises the GOP field made for their conservative policies have been achieved despite the continuation of liberal policies.” – More from “What would Republicans say if Mitt Romney were president and the economy was this strong” HERE.
13. I recently heard of a hangover referred to as a Wine Flu.
– Bloggers who want to participate in this weekly blog hop meme can link up to the new 13 Thursday hub HERE!
January 14th, 2015 8:31 pm
Ah, yes, but the GOP is passing with the weakness of the Dems some terrible bills right this week!
I write poetry and for quite some time I worried about how bad it was, how trite my vocabulary, how poor my pacing and rhythm. But now, I do not care, because I just have to write it sometimes and even fear of rejection and criticism does not constipate my progress.
January 15th, 2015 2:36 am
As always, CR. a great one. I don’t write about writer’s block. I suffer through it, try not to give up.
Why, oh WHY can’t I access the new T-13 hub?
I’ll try again later, maybe.
January 15th, 2015 9:05 am
Colleen, could you please go back and sign up with Mr. Linky again? I was trying to figure it out and learned that if I create a new one it makes the old one inaccessible – can’t have but one going at a time. It’s a process.
Loved your TT.
January 15th, 2015 5:26 pm
Wine flu…funny! Thanks for visiting and letting me know about the new hub. Demise of the old domain wasn’t a surprise considering it had not been updated in two or three months.
January 15th, 2015 7:21 pm
Wine flu, not whine flu? lol. Love it.
As to writer’s block, I find writing about it more effective than trying to wait it out. Faster, at any rate.
Did you set up the new hub? If so, thank you!
January 15th, 2015 7:37 pm
Country Dew set it up. Spread the word!
January 16th, 2015 12:30 am
Wine flu! I love that! I think you can like a like on Facebook. Haha.
January 16th, 2015 8:27 am
Acorns can be very versatile: http://www.craftionary.net/make-diy-acorn-crafts
Write about the block until it blooms, as did this 13.
At first, in #2, I thought you wrote “broken pottery”. Actually, they’re not so different.
January 18th, 2015 7:17 pm
I enjoy your poetry and the way you make me think and smile. And I enjoy it very much when you think like I do and appreciate that you express it so much better than I could (#12 in particular this time) .