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Quest for brilliant first lines and strong openings

Standing on the muse’s dune, I want to hook the best first line ever. Don’t you long to say that about the first line you wrote to a short story or a poem? If not you might want to say that about the best line you delivered to someone you had a crush on andContinue reading “Quest for brilliant first lines and strong openings”

Word Rain

I found the opening phrase of this poem in an old notebook – but the lines after that are all new. Some days editing and reshaping comes so easily. A long hiatus makes cutting so much easier. I have days where rhyme is on my mind and that’s the time to attempt poemsContinue reading “Word Rain”

A breakfast in fur and nightmare angels: Surreal Muses

My muses for today are the female surrealists, Dorothea Tanning, Meret Oppenheim and Remedios Vara who had to find a voice in surrealism where the men often made women the object of desire in their creations. It took Oppenheim sometime to realise her artistic freedom, for although she had much success with her Fur LinedContinue reading “A breakfast in fur and nightmare angels: Surreal Muses”