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NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 0: Early Bird

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The Ghazal: An Introduction

Ghazals The ghazal is a widely-used but poorly-understood poetic genre and style, originating in panegyric Arabic verse and adapted (approximately) into contemporary English poetry. In this article I will be touching on the history of the ghazal, its original Arabic form, and the various ways it's been adapted into English. I will also be spotlighting some great ghazals from deviantART and around the 'net. Please note that the English ghazal, like English haiku, has a handful of forms and aesthetics and no one is more "right" than others; for less confusion I am sticking to the better-known aesthetics in this treatment, and especially to th

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NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 0: Early Bird

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FFM Challenge - Portaging

“I was two, maybe three when he stuck a paddle in my hands. I wasn’t big enough to row a toy canoe, but that was my temal for ya. Always pushin’.  So I grew up on creeks. Slow ones at first, where the current couldn’t sweep me away. Then big fast ones. Ain’t a creek in this rainforest that I ain’t had a paddle in. “Portaging, that was the funny part. We had this little dugout canoe for the two of us, temal and son. He’d carry it upside-down over his head from one creek to the next. I always got a kick outta that. He was real tall, my temal, and with a canoe on his head he looked like this huge

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Conlanging: A How-To

Are you the sort of person who looks at Elvish script and realizes with excitement that those gorgeous squiggles actually mean something?  When watching Avatar, did you find yourself trying to work out certain Na’vi words?  Have you ever wished you could make up your own language, whether as something to share with your friends when you were young, or else a deeper element to flesh out your personal universe?  If so, you’re damn weird.  But you’re also lucky, because this article for the layman is going to make your linguistic dreams a reality. We’re going to talk about language.  More specifically, we’re going

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens

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THE ROCKY CROWN OF MOUNT AI-PETRI

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