Begging for Snippets!

PeterZ wrote:I would like to start a thread to allow we posters to "perform" in hopes of getting snippets. Use your imagination, write a poem of any sort; a limerick, a hyku or sonnet. Beg or post some prose.

I'm thinking of something right now. All entries are welcome.

There was a young lady named Bright
Who could travel MUCH faster than light.
She set off one day
In a relative way
And arrived the previous night.
(Pausing on her way only to collect a snippet for us from RFC)

Runs for Celery
Pauses his weekly posting
Oh the agony

Snippets power wanes
Words like sunshine guard against
Vamps Out of the Dark

Past experience would indicate that Himself works "late."
Snippets tend to appear in the wee hours.

Well as much as I like amateur Haiku and poetry (and some of you are... well let us just say the enthusiasm overreaches the talent and leave it at that). Knock it off, you are probably just irritating the man. As well as shattering all threads of your threadbare dignity.

Look If David isn't posting right now, it's because he's busy either A. writing or B. editing or C. preparing for a con where you can personally try to wheedle him into revealing deep, dark secrets.

Or alternately, he is spending more time with the wife and family and relaxing after cranking out two or three more massive missives, which you fanatics (and I, to be honest) will consume in the space of a day and then whinge for the next one. Honestly, don't you people have lives? Well maybe you don't, but I'd like to think that David does and given the times we've been worried for his health in the last few years I think I like the idea of him going out, taking a break and getting some healthy exercise or recharging the mental stress batteries by just sitting on the porch and enjoying the sunset. Folks he writes for a living but that does not mean that it is his life. I'm sure he has hobbies, interests, maybe even a few books HE would like to read rather than writing constantly till his poor fingers fall off, decayed little ink smeared nubbins from the scratching of his quill.

So if he posts a snippet, that is fine and if he does not well no wheedling, let him get about his life and you get about yours. If you are deficit for something to do, ask your wife for a chore, I am sure she can find one, God knows mine always can. If not volunteer your time with a local charity, contribute at the blood bank, do something with big brother/big sisters, mow the lawn, grout those tiles, fix that loose brickwork on the front steps... Oh wait, those last couple are from my list, sorry... Get a hobby, go on a vacation, if you live on the US East Coast we appear to be getting an extended summer so it's not too late to spend a day at the beach, and at off season rates at that. Grab a camera and get some pictures of something, share them on your favorite social media site.

“Patience is a virtue” my dear old mother used to tell me, and you could profitably spend your time while you wait, patiently, for DW's next book by going down to your local library and looking for other author’s books as well. Read something different. My future son-in-law is a historian whose specialty is the First World War, he has introduced me to all sorts of details I was unaware of, and I thought I knew my history fairly well. There is always more to learn.

So go ye forth and conquer. Some of you might want to start with a good book on poetry. May I recommend "The Art of the Haiku" by Stephen Addiss.

Larry

Larry wrote:Well as much as I like amateur Haiku and poetry (and some of you are... well let us just say the enthusiasm overreaches the talent and leave it at that). Knock it off, you are probably just irritating the man. As well as shattering all threads of your threadbare dignity.

Look If David isn't posting right now, it's because he's busy either A. writing or B. editing or C. preparing for a con where you can personally try to wheedle him into revealing deep, dark secrets.

Or alternately, he is spending more time with the wife and family and relaxing after cranking out two or three more massive missives, which you fanatics (and I, to be honest) will consume in the space of a day and then whinge for the next one. Honestly, don't you people have lives? Well maybe you don't, but I'd like to think that David does and given the times we've been worried for his health in the last few years I think I like the idea of him going out, taking a break and getting some healthy exercise or recharging the mental stress batteries by just sitting on the porch and enjoying the sunset. Folks he writes for a living but that does not mean that it is his life. I'm sure he has hobbies, interests, maybe even a few books HE would like to read rather than writing constantly till his poor fingers fall off, decayed little ink smeared nubbins from the scratching of his quill.

So if he posts a snippet, that is fine and if he does not well no wheedling, let him get about his life and you get about yours. If you are deficit for something to do, ask your wife for a chore, I am sure she can find one, God knows mine always can. If not volunteer your time with a local charity, contribute at the blood bank, do something with big brother/big sisters, mow the lawn, grout those tiles, fix that loose brickwork on the front steps... Oh wait, those last couple are from my list, sorry... Get a hobby, go on a vacation, if you live on the US East Coast we appear to be getting an extended summer so it's not too late to spend a day at the beach, and at off season rates at that. Grab a camera and get some pictures of something, share them on your favorite social media site.

“Patience is a virtue” my dear old mother used to tell me, and you could profitably spend your time while you wait, patiently, for DW's next book by going down to your local library and looking for other author’s books as well. Read something different. My future son-in-law is a historian whose specialty is the First World War, he has introduced me to all sorts of details I was unaware of, and I thought I knew my history fairly well. There is always more to learn.

So go ye forth and conquer. Some of you might want to start with a good book on poetry. May I recommend "The Art of the Haiku" by Stephen Addiss.

Larry

《Sticks out tongue》Spoilsport!

Don

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Get over yourself, Larry. No one wants RFC to miss his commitments to his publishers or his family. We are simply entertaining ourselves without ragging him on his writing like what's happening in the Honorverse.

You don't like it? Don't read it.

Rest assured that I will be checking this forum on the morrow, and the next, and the next ad infinitum! Snippets are a drug, a non-narcotic but essential drug. Like Gollum's Precious, We NEEDS IT! If RFC indulges, happy are we, like Gollum's clutch while sinking in the molten lava! (Well, maybe not that much!)

Oh, all right Let's see ...

An eager Weber fan name of Peter,
Sought snippets by poesy, with rhyme and maybe even meter.
Alas, aforesaid Weber
To respond took forebber,
Maybe fearing, like new ship design, apparent poetic success would lead us to rePete her and rePete her and ...

Or ersatz Frank Herbert:

Review, review, snippets long past review;
Their pages worn by our thumbs and molars,
At this point a new one is probably worth at least two dollars.
Review, review, snippets long past review,
We argue over nits and get hot under our collars,
Just one more snippet, the fretful fan hollers.
Review, review, what else can we do?

LoL!

wkernochan wrote:Oh, all right Let's see ...

An eager Weber fan name of Peter,
Sought snippets by poesy, with rhyme and maybe even meter.
Alas, aforesaid Weber
To respond took forebber,
Maybe fearing, like new ship design, apparent poetic success would lead us to rePete her and rePete her and ...

Or ersatz Frank Herbert:

Review, review, snippets long past review;
Their pages worn by our thumbs and molars,
At this point a new one is probably worth at least two dollars.
Review, review, snippets long past review,
We argue over nits and get hot under our collars,
Just one more snippet, the fretful fan hollers.
Review, review, what else can we do?