Writers of the Revolution, April

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camelopardalisinblue 

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This is a little late because of reasons, but that's okay! All is well, for I have found an amazing writer and now you have to read her work, because it's great and because I said so. camelopardalisinblue writes fantastic poetry and prose, so you're getting a mixed bag of both in the article!

In fact, what I enjoyed most about picking works from her gallery was that camelopardalisinblue really tries her hand at every and all genres of writing, whether it's fixed form poetry or nonfiction or what have you, and the results are consistently fantastic in terms of quality. I'm going to stop yammering now and get to the good stuff, but, seriously, give at least one if not all of these works a read, because they deserve it!



Babydoll.

By the time I've reduced "mount fold-me" to a mere foothill, she's asleep, so I leave her in the bouncer and dash out to check the mail.  
This is an excellent prose piece, in that it opens with a scene of domestic normality that begins to become more and more surreal as it continues, with slight, subtle hints from the author that contribute to a niggling feeling of unease in the reader, until you get to the plot twist you were kind of expecting but it still gets you with details you didn't expect. Definitely worth a read.

Free To Good Home'Nae absently tapped her fingers against the keyboard. The cat had to go, but she just couldn't bring herself to lie as blatantly as the ad she'd found him in. "Somewhat incendiary" it'd said, right after "good with kids" and "declawed". They hadn't mentioned that the damn thing liked to bite. She knew, now, why they'd been so keen for her to have him and go. At the time she'd thought they were just being nice, waiving the microchip fee. She knew better now, but it was too late to do any good.
"GAH!" 'Nae's frustration rose with the memory of the way she'd been tricked, and she thumped the keys in irritation. A growl came from behind the door, and she double-checked the barricade. She could hear the thing chewing on something, and she shuddered. She hadn't been quick enough to grab Mr Tickles when she fled in here, and he'd fallen victim to the evil thing. His blood was smeared across her wolf rug now.
"Intelligent zombie-cat thing," she typed out. "Declawed, somewhat incendiary. Free.

Free To Good Home.

"Somewhat incendiary" it'd said, right after "good with kids" and "declawed".
This is a fantastic piece of flash fiction that involves cats and violence; it incorporates elements that are both comedic and dark to create a short, sharp, and satisfying read.


Roses and CoffeeMasarm takes his coffee black
like the collar of his favourite shirt
and the shadow of childhood;
Sally tempers the tartness of taste
with salt and sugar-crusted
petals of roses in her cup.
When he's angry, Masarm
burns fiercely, a brooding
that bites only himself, and Sally,
when she's angry, spits
acid and flings plates
that shatter over his head.
Still, somehow it's always Masarm
who sends flowers; Masarm
who swallows down the bitterness.

Roses and Coffee.

a brooding
that bites only himself
I'm also a fan of short poems as well as short prose, and this is another satisfying piece by camelopardalisinblue , succinct and sharp in its brevity, and made exquisite with the juxtaposition of coffee against anger.

your teeth leave different scarswhat they didn't tell me--
the amnesiac is
61.8% water &
on watching the night
close its eyes on you,
I only know beauty;
maybe Anne Sexton was on to something
& for the woman shamed,
arise and breathe. Seabones
with taciturn eyes
after we lost him:
mermaid thirst for
cruelest love.
Your virginity is like an envelope,
a lover's observations on
post-it notes, cupping rice
always, and always.

your teeth leave different scars.

Seabones
with taciturn eyes
after we lost him:
mermaid thirst for
cruelest love.
I've been immersed in found poetry for the past month or so, so in the spirit of that, here's an excellent found poem, composed of titles from works around dA! It's a lovely poem, with fantastic ingenuity, but I have to admit, it's the imagery cobbled together of the sea that really gets me with this one, and will probably get you, too. Give it a read!

We Heart camelopardalisinblue .

featured CRITIQUES


Canis44 


on Ahead by neonsquiggle .

(This critique was pointed to me by four admins before I even went through the log to look for critiques to feature: that alone should be enough of a clue to tell you give it a read, because it is worth reading in its entirety.)
I find that spontaneity can help bring about interesting writing, but it is better to have a rhythmic structure. Let the ideas, images, figurative language flow freely from your imagination onto a rhythmic plane where everything sort of coalesces.

read the full critique here.


DeiSophia 

on The Bloody Vampire by Nixiomihla .

Although simplistic in diction, you convey your imagery effectively. You use your strong verbs well, but the nouns are fairly staid and placid. These nouns affected your use of figures of speech, as more varied and interesting nouns would enable you to utilise the more effective figures of speech, i.e. metonymy and metaphor [...]

read the full critique here.


featured RESOURCES


In addition to these resources, we're publishing articles with interviews from other writers in deviantART for our Mentorship Project, so check those out! So far, we have: On Writing, On Poetry and Prose Basics, To Rhyme Or Not To Rhyme?, Description and Vocabulary, Vocabulary, Narrative Voice, and POV, Rhetoric Figures in Poetry, Plot Building, and Poetic Prose!

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