Shawn L. Bird

I wished I could.
I thought I should.
then knew I would.

Though doubts amid,

I slipped and slid
fought could, should, would,
and then I DID.

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This is the story of the birth of my writing career, synthesized.  Years of wishing and dreaming, slowly coming to believe that I could, and then finally actually writing the novel I’d wanted to write for thirty years.  The story was desperate to see the light, and when  I got down to it, it poured out at 25 pages a week.  Six months later I had a 150,000 word novel.  Astonishing.  When Grace Awakening hits the bookstore shelves September 2011, it will have been less than 3 years from the time I wrote the first words.  Wow.

If you dream of being a writer.  Quit dreaming.  Get writing.

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Now to a poetry lecture:

The ‘eye rhyme’ is interesting here. 

Dipthong ‘ou’ makes 5 different sounds in this short 28 syllable poem, and ‘ough’ appears in every second line, teasing the eye into perceiving rhyme where there isn’t.