Jumpstart<\/a> in meter.
I mean, what\u2019s the point, masking oneself, like a blindfolded trick-or-treater?
It all depends, I suppose, on the prompts that we are given.
It could turn out to be mere folly, or crazier still, madness-driven.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMarlene always says, \u201cJust write,\u201d so just write is what we will do.
We will contemplate the prompts, one at a time, and stir them into our stew.
Time will tell us, as our words spill out, no need to pre-distress.
We\u2019ll know soon enough if we\u2019ve got a yummy meal, or just some metered mess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prompt one says: What bothers me\u2026, I don\u2019t care\u2026, I\u2019m tired of dot-dot-dot.
So, right away, we must gaze inward, and put ourselves on the spot-spot-spot.
One thing that can<\/em> be tiresome is overuse of ellipses.
But truth be told, I\u2019m as guilty as most, oft\u2019 with the \u201cand so on\u201d tipsies\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\nOr, maybe I can find a rhyme in things I care not<\/em> about.
But then again, who wants to take in some testy writer\u2019s careless blowout?
Or perhaps, fluency may lie in what bothers me the most.
Though, it surely would confuse, were I to make a bouncy meter morose.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPrompt two asks, innocently enough, what it is that\u2019s nagging.
It\u2019s hard to answer, when there is so<\/em> much, but might I be humble-bragging?
Or, what I really want to do might spark a burst quite wordy.
Though, honestly, I\u2019m just plugging away, trying to get to ten-thirty.
<\/p>\n\n\n\nPrompt three wants to know about those who might be my role models.
It\u2019s a marvelous idea to ponder, but a thorny prompt to coddle.
For, were I to list those who\u2019ve inspired, and cite them in report,
I could not possibly do them justice, and I would come up stupid short.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, what am I to make of this, this Jumpstart done in meter?
Well, if I\u2019m real, I\u2019m surely no Ogden Nash, but more like Walmart greeter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ken Delpit<\/strong> is, in chronological order, a son, a brother, an Argonaut, a Bruin, a software engineer, a husband, a father, a technical writer, and, Ta-Da!<\/em>, a grandpa (aka \u201cPoppy\u201d). But hold the phone: Now that he is retired and freed from the odious burden of doing real work and being responsible, he has embarked into the wide-open adventures of creative writing. Ken welcomes the freedom and spontaneity of Jumpstart workshops, the inspirations that they inevitability evoke in participating writers, and the warm camaraderie of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memorable writing that sparks imagination. Lean in. Hear the writer\u2019s voice on the page. Jumpstart in Meter By Ken Delpit I wonder if it makes good sense, to do Jumpstart in meter.I mean, what\u2019s the point, masking oneself, like a blindfolded trick-or-treater?It all depends, I suppose, on the prompts that we are given.It could turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1474],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sparks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-3pH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13125"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13129,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13125\/revisions\/13129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}