Tick!
Tick!
Tick!
Just sent my short story submission to the good people who direct the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. If you’ve got a story or a chapter (5,000 words or fewer) from a novel lying about the house, you’ve got until MIDNIGHT TODAY to apply for this summer’s workshop.
Hope to see you there!
P.S. I’ll be off spring breaking for the next 10 days. Spending time in the “City of the Big Shoulders.” Fifty points to anyone who can name the city referred to and the poet (Yes, it’s April, National Poetry Month) who wrote that gorgeous metaphor.
See you all on the flip side!
Jilanne Hoffmann 
Good luck with the story and have a great spring break!
Thanks! What, no guess for the poet or city?? 😀
I Googled it, so it would only be cheating if I posted it. 🙂
Oh, like Carrie – Google makes all information external and only a click away. But i will now read the poem and enjoy your time will big shoulders, Jilanne. Well done for your tickbox for squaw. I laughed at the ‘if you’ve got a story or a novel lying around the house. I have of course, many many hundreds, in fact, in to the thousand……the only problem, is, they aren’t mine, so I call them my TBR, my TBRER. Perhaps i should just clear the shelves, ship them all to Squaw, demand my place, and enjoy listening to all you writers tell stories and hone your wonderful craft even more!
Time for you to spring off on your break, methinks
We’d (the royal “we,” of course) would love to have you there! 😀
PS Jilanne – thanks for introducing me to that wonderful exhilarating poem Jilanne, with an almost overwhelming collection of dynamic, vibrant, muscular imagery. I loved it!
He captures the spirit of the city quite nicely. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
I’m going to guess Dallas on the basis of Joan Collins! Wherever it is, have a great time… and good luck with Squaw Valley! 😀
Ha! Wrong! 😀 But thank you for playing….and thanks for sending the leprechaun my way. May he shower us all with four leaf clovers!
I feel lucky to have read (and loved) the story you’re sending to Squaw. They simply have to love it. Have a fantastic spring break!
Thank you, dahlink! It’s better because of you and Wes!
The City of Big Shoulders. Hm. Hoboken?
Ha! I thought that was the city of delicious cheese steaks. Hoboken uses the products from the stockyards of the city with big shoulders. 😀 But 25 points for guessing. 😀
Have no idea what city that is and I refuse to cheat. Good luck with the submission, honey!
Thanks, Britt! Got my fingers crossed. Google the poem. I think you’ll like it 😀
“They tell me you are wicked and I believe them…” Good luck with Squaw Valley!
50 points to the poet in the front row!! “…for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.”
I worship before the altar of that poem. Thanks for sending some luck my way!
I’m way late to this party, Jil, but I wish you the best of luck with it! Look forward to getting an update!
Thanks, Nick! Never too late to join the party. 😀 Will let you know!
Yup. No clue about the city, poem, or poet. 😉
Good luck with the story and have a blast! No clue on the poet but I like the metaphor.
Good luck with the story. I don’t know the poet. 😦