World of the Fifth Sun: June 2020

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Grammar Fuel Tools #1 bundle

I decided to make a bundle focusing on the Grammar Fuel tools.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/318561/Grammar-Fuel-Tools-1-BUNDLE

This bundle takes the two of the first volumes of tools, Parts of Speech and 12,000 Phrase & Idioms and pair them with Rhyming Fuel. To me, this set now becomes a current core set for a Grammar Fuel series. I did not include any of the Name Fuel series nor the Vulgarity Fuel in the current core. The rhyming tool I have used a great deal in the series of poetry learning posts. The other two tools I used recently in my Reddit gamestory that became the short story "The Art of Love and Loss".

Learning about Poetry (part 8): New material for Poetic Images exercises

For this post, I want to move from the chapter 1 on Muses to the chapter 3 on Images in the Open Textbook on poetry Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations.
https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/naming-the-unnameable-an-approach-to-poetry-for-new-generations

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The poetry textbook chapter 3 begins by categorizing poetry as creative writing which focuses on text that focuses on images (an event in language) experienced primarily through senses—a virtual reality.

But before working with this chapter, I'd like to roll and come up with a new and different rhyming set so that I can review some of my prior poetry techniques, and I liked and begin with a fresh slate of material for this new chapter focus. So, this post will focus on creating new material by reviewing some of the past few poetry post techniques. Then in the next post, I will hope to focus on poetry Images

For this post, I'll roll up another random rhyming word set using Rhyming Fuel.

The d1000 roll is #964 busk, tusk, dusk, husk, musk, lusk, rusk, brusque, cusk, cornhusk, mollusk.

Looking into this wordset, I only see one that is used in a common idiom.

from dusk to dawn

Let me research or freewrite some stuff based on this list.

busk, music, solicit, street musician, market, corner, street
tusk, elephant, walrus, wild boar, sharp
dusk, dawn, evening, sunset, night, ending, final days
husk, outer shell, corn, worthless outer covering
musk, deer musk, scent, odor, perfume, musky
lusk, lounge, skulk, lazy, lethargic, idle, sluggish
rusk, light bread biscuit
brusque, abrupt, blunt, rough, curt
cusk, cod, fish, codlike, with a single long dorsal fin
cornhusk, corn, leafy, ear of corn, outer membrane
mollusk, snail, clam, squid, chiton, octopus, shellfish, invertebrate, cephalopod

Word use Research
From "Same Song & Dance" by Eminem
Of footage of me impalin' myself on an elephant tusk?
We'll settle this once and for all, I'ma tell her at dusk

From "Bring Da Ruckus" by Wu-Tang Clan
I come rough, tough like an elephant tusk
Ya head rush, fly like Egyptian musk

From "To Earthward" by Robert Lee Frost
That crossed me from sweet things,
The flow of--was it musk
From hidden grapevine springs
Downhill at dusk?

From "A better Resurrection" by Christina Georgina Rossetti
My life is like a faded leaf,
My harvest dwindled to a husk:
Truly my life is void and brief
And tedious in the barren dusk;

From "Time" by Camp Lo
I'm lost, I'm found, my sound was designed by dusk
Clogging emotions and I'm bleeding, I'm lusk

From "Luminous Blues" by Zippy Kid
The time is the unremitting sable dusk,
Its the idle space without her for stuck on,
My life was worse than a stale rusk,
I grieved it still flowed on.

word combinations
cephalopod mollusk
gastropod mollusk
giant mollusk
freshwater mollusk
marine mollusk
mollusk fossils
mollusk shells
rare mollusk

Freewriting the Rhyming Set
I heard the busk in the dusk of eve. I'm just a husk of my former self. The tusk protruded sharp and long. From noon to dusk. A heavy scent of musk. Don't be brusque! Hurt and lusk. Eating cusk and rusk. A single foot of a slug or snail mucus wave of muscular contraction sliding and gliding along a mucus slime. At dusk. By dusk. After dusk. Aromatic musk.

Based on that free writing I am going to edit, expand, and organizing the freewriting list for a poetry images exercises.

I heard the busk,

echo the city dusk.

I'm just a husk,

of my former self.

Protruding sharp and long,

impaled the tusk.

From noon to dusk.

A heavy scent of musk.

Don't be brusque!

Hurt and lusk.

Eating cusk and rusk.

The sliding and gliding mollusk.

A single foot of a mollusk.

Aromatic musk.

There by dusk.

Gone by dusk.

Okay, for the next poetry post I hope to begin to use these 16 lines of original material to explore poetic images.

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Learning about Poetry (part 7): "Dream Flows" poem and comparison of Poetry to Myths or Fables

While the urge to do something with "go" rhyming words, I want to take several of my freewriting sentence words and create something simple by altering it. I also want to do something by making some phrases little more descriptive.

This will be my first entirely original rhyming poem.

Dream Flows

This urgent hope could go.

Where do peaceful dreams flow.

You're not my mortal foe.

In the moment will never know.

So, I add this new simple 4 line rhyming poem to that one that I created through imitation several posts ago. Here is that first imitation poem for comparison.

Plague Across the Land

I've seen across the entire land,

All victims of the plague,

In a world looking strange and vague,

No, I don't want to beg.

I now have 2 poems written: "Dream Flows" and "Plague Across the Land".

Poetry writing it is fairly strange and unfamiliar. In 2nd grade, I remember doing a few poems for classroom activity, but those are now long forgotten to time.

Writing these poems are as unfamiliar to me as creating those 2 myths and 1 fable back in 2017 in the mythology series. It does give me a greater sense of breadth with writing styles although my skill level with poetry is only beginning.

Poetry is the art of sharing experience. In these two brief and little poems, it does feel like "Dream Flows" and "Plague Across the Land" do share some sort of experience. The mythology was more of a fictional creating experience than when I created "Blood and Water - Begin", "From them all become", and "Bird takes Snake to the Moons". Very little of me are included in those myths and fable. Instead of including any emotion or evaluations, my myths were more logically constructed.

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Learning about Poetry (part 6): Muse #4 Freewriting (Random Prompt)

The main tool for this exercise is freewriting. In exercise #1 we did some freewriting based on a random rhyming word set.

This exercise will differ in that first, instead of rolling for a rhyming set, I'll roll for one random result for each part of speech. I will then try to freewrite whatever comes to mind for 10 minutes, jumping from word to word or back depending on spontaneous thoughts.

Noun 1162 = compromise
Adjective 1785 = shopping
Verb 646 = prevent
Adverb 988 = yearningly
Interjection 499 = just kill me
Preposition 760 = prior to
Pronoun 77 = this
Conjunction 80 = supposing
Determiner 2 = the [singular]

Freewriting for 10 minutes exercise focusing on the above random words

There is no compromise. I must prevent laziness. Yearningly, I study poetry in hopes of figuring out the basics. If everything progresses enough, then poetry will be another form of artistic expression; supposing, that enough of the basics are adequate. THIS is the answer that has slipped through the grasp of scholars and politicians. THE end. Prior to writing this post, I was creating the next names book. Shopping exhausts me. But it does not prevent spontaneity. "Just kill me!" she said in a mocking manner. Yearningly, I typed each word wondering what would emerge. Prior to compromising during the deal, I shopped. Freewriting is a form of writing; supposing, that something inspirational emerges from all of the typing. But it should not prevent creativity. The fact of the matter is that I must type until the full 10 minutes is reached. this thought can go. I type and type until I know. Where does it go. How knows. Ouch my toe. I blow and row until tomorrow. You're not my foe. It will expose.

Ok. I typed up some spontaneous stuff.

The orange highlights were attempts to mix the preposition with two words based on two other parts of speech.

When I reached the yellow highlighted section, I just suddenly felt like rhyming with go for some reason. I don't know why. It might mean something. Or it might mean nothing.

This is freewriting. There might be something here, especially with the rhyming "go" words.

In the another exercise, I might explore those rhyming words.

Quick edit on the yellow highlighted rhyming words

Next, I will look at, edit, and change the yellow words a bit

This thought can go.

I type and type until I know.

Where does it go.

Who will know.

Ouch my toe.

I blow and row until tomorrow.

You're not my foe.

At the expo.

That is enough freewriting for today.

Saturday, June 6, 2020

Flash Fiction Day: "Necromancer takes on the World"

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/257894/Premium-Flash-RPG-Three-Conflict-RPG--Deep-Dive-Engine-allinone

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Today is Flash Fiction Day!

I'll use the Premium Flash RPG... version to make a flash fiction for Flash Fiction Day. I normally use just the three pack version when making a flash fiction unless I need the other resources found in the Story Mechanisms book.

Genre 3 = Drama or horror
Setting 6 = World
Conflict 4 = Overcome...obstacle...
Vs Foe = 4 = Person

Gamestory flash fiction concept
A malevolent person is trying for world domination by leading an army of undead soldiers to take over major cities.

Attribute Test 3 = Body
Attribute Value 5 = +1
Difficulty = 5 Terrifying

Body = Forceful

Character = A more forceful soldier

A malevolent necromancer is reaching for world domination by leading a vast army of undead soldiers to take over major cities. A more forceful soldier is try to combat the undead swarm to overcome this terrifying host obstacle with a small group of freedom fighters. Will he be able to muster enough force to fight through the undead army and eliminate the necromancer?

Conflict test result = roll of 4 + 2 (more forceful) = 6

Through awesome effort and forceful skill, the soldier is barely able to fight through the undead hoard to the central base and defeat the malevolent necromancer in a spectacular manner. Although pained by difficulty, some loss, and injury the soldier group extremely grateful for their perseverance. The survivors cheer for the soldier hero's victory.

"Necromancer takes on the World"

A malevolent necromancer is reaching for world domination by leading a vast army of undead soldiers to take over major cities. A more forceful soldier is try to combat the undead swarm to overcome this terrifying host obstacle with a small group of freedom fighters. Will he be able to muster enough force to fight through the undead army and eliminate the necromancer?

Through awesome effort and forceful skill, the soldier is barely able to fight through the undead hoard to the central base and defeat the malevolent necromancer in a spectacular manner. Although pained by difficulty, some loss, and injury the soldier group extremely grateful for their perseverance. The survivors cheer for the soldier hero's victory.

117 words, 721 characters