Stephen Scorer's Notebook

Nov 26, 2020 at 5:57pm

Well, it seems like an age since I was last writing poems and stories on here, I'm hoping to get back and join up with you all. My writing journey as continued to grow (slowly) and with some moderate types of success, I have a little book (Spot to Spot) in the museum and tourist offices in Wrexham (UK) and one of my poems made a surprise outing on the TV programme 'Countryfile'. So it as been a little exciting in these unprecedented times of confusion.

Keep writing

Steve

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Stephen Scorer

Apr 2, 2018 at 9:11am

Today I have launched an audacious bid to send my window of poetry around the world, please feel free to visit my blog and then follow the links and share or comment to were the window as reached, hopefully, I can keep track to the strange and wonderful places this poetry pane will visit.

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Stephen Scorer

Nov 24, 2017 at 3:34am

Morning Guys and Gals, a fellow writer and friend posted and asked a question on Facebook about poetry, a question with many long answers and not many short ones, what would your answers be?

His question was- "Hi folks quick question to all my perfectly poetic pals: When writing poetry do you have to include much grammar or do you just go with your gut"

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Vaughan Jones - ONE Scribe

Nov 24, 2017 at 10:39am

Generally, you go with your gut. Some people don't even like commas at the ends of each line, unless a line has a period at its end. They feel that commas just cause interrupts in the flow of the poem.
To me, personally, I include punctuation in most of my poems except if the poem is a prose poem or a story poem, unless punctuation is needed as it often may be, to make the message or story clear..
Hope you understand what I am saying. It's certainly not meant to be ambiguous.

Vaughan

Jayngle Bells

Nov 24, 2017 at 11:59am

Gut. How I want to make the reader breathe and pause and sing-song through the piece. Unless, as One Scribe said,the type of poem calls for structured punctuation to make it coherent, or the structured poem requires it to be the type of poem it is.

And a lot of times, I don't put any in. I'm forever playing with punctuation, put a comma in, take it out, put it back in, read it again, take it out...

Vaughan Jones - ONE Scribe

Nov 24, 2017 at 12:46pm

Well put, JS. Thank you.

Stephen Scorer

Oct 6, 2016 at 4:47am • Edited

Hi, I thought that i would join in, in all this trickery in trinkets, so here is my first attempt.

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Wordsmitty ✍️

Oct 6, 2016 at 3:34pm

Very nice. Thanks.

Amyaurora

Oct 6, 2016 at 7:30pm

Collected. Thanks.

Legendary❤️Mask

Oct 29, 2017 at 9:52pm

Awesome trinket, thank you.....

~ Aqua ~

Oct 4, 2017 at 12:29pm

Hi there! I am sorry to take up your time but I saw that you write horror stories and I wanted to let you know that there is an amazing contest

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Sinister Stories Contest (13+)
A horror contest for everyone! Can you write a terrifying tale? February Special Round!
#1556724 by Jeff

There are amazing prizes and all the participants receive 500 GPs just for entering. There are three prompts and all you have to do is write a story on any one of them! I do hope to see you there.

Thank you!

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Stephen Scorer

Sep 25, 2016 at 7:25am

Here is my very first newsfeed LOL, I would like some advice? I am stuck either writing poetry or skipping from subject to subject (book to book). I just can not seem to sit and finish one and then go onto another. I can be writing away then get a random idea into my head, then that idea seems to take over.
What do you all do to keep focused, or is this just the normal thing to do.

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Hanna ~ Be Kind 💕

Sep 25, 2016 at 9:49am

Hello Stephen,

I've had this problem before too (jumping from book idea to book idea) as of right now I have ten ideas for books. I recently wrote the third draft of one of them and am in the process of starting the fourth and hopefully final draft. My advice is to choose one, probably your favorite or the one that is most developed and put all your attention on it. If you have other book ideas write them in a notebook, tablet, laptop, phone, etc and work on them later after you have written the other one. I hope this helps in some way.

~ Aqua ~

Sep 25, 2016 at 11:35am

If I am writing for a specific prompt, I try to connect or link them back to the original prompt in one way or the other.

Otherwise, after I have written the poem with whatever that came to my mind, I revise the poem to see which things are completely different from what the poem should have been about

🐕GeminiGem🎁

Sep 25, 2016 at 10:32pm

Wish I could help, but when I'm writing I generally have a one-track mind. Maybe some additional planning before you write would help?