More poetry

Posted on April 6, 2016 Posted in Poetry, typecast, writingTagged napowrimo, national poetry writing month, poem, Poetry, typecast, typewriter, typewriter poetryLeave a comment

Hey everybody, here’s some more! #4 is a pretty lighthearted ditty about the joys of coffee. #5 is an imagist poem about a bridge. #6 is called a cinquain, which has 5 lines. The first line has 2 syllables, then 4, then 6, then 8, finally two again.

NaPoWriMo 2016 #2 and #3

Posted on April 4, 2016 Posted in Poetry, typecastTagged family, friendship, national poetry writing month, poem, Poetry, portrait, typewriter, typewriter poetryLeave a comment

Thirty separate blog posts of poems might get to be a little much, so I’m combining a few days and updating you all at intervals. I’d love to know which of these upcoming poems you like! It would inspire me to make some revisions and really get them polished. In the spirit of NaNoWriMo, all these poems are minimally planned first drafts 🙂

National Poetry Month

Posted on April 1, 2016April 1, 2016 Posted in Poetry, writingTagged lune, national poetry writing month, peace, poem, Poetry, typewriter, typewriter poetryLeave a comment

As is typical, there are a lot of writing endeavors that excite me and I find eventually I have no inspiration to finish. I just found out about NaPoWriMo.net and their annual April challenge, and I’m eager to start. Whether I finish is another matter. I’m not terribly concerned, as I’m also using April for Camp NaNoWriMo in order to do some revisions on my draft of a novel. Anyway, I wrote a Lune poem today on the 1st, following the prompt on their site. It’s a 5-3-5 syllabic structure. Hope you enjoy.

Optima Elite 3 review

Posted on February 3, 2016February 1, 2016 Posted in review, typecast, writingTagged analog, blog, gdr, germany, olympia, olympia vs optima, optima elite, typecast, typewriter, typosphere, writing6 Comments

There’s an exclamation point, where so many American-mades lacked it. I must conclude that the Germans were much more emphatic. Ha.

Check out the curve of that carriage return! Who said Communists can’t be aesthetes?

Sherlock & Me

Posted on February 1, 2016 Posted in review, typecast, writingTagged abominable bride, analog, art, bbc, optima elite, sherlock holmes, sleuth, typecast, typewriter, typosphere, writingLeave a comment

Mild spoilers. I give away nothing that is plot-central, however.

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Fisherman, a poem

Posted on January 27, 2016 Posted in Poetry, typecast, writingTagged analog, hermes 3000, jesus, poem, Poetry, typecast, typewriter, typosphere, writingLeave a comment

Yes, sometimes I wax poetic. This happens to be something I’d written in about five minutes several years ago on a small pad of paper. One of our cats or curious children must have uncovered it, and I took much of today tweaking and reworking it. I hope you enjoy!

-JF

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