The US Men’s National Team is ranked fifth in the world, their highest ranking ever. Well, if the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Rankings say it, it must be true.
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Racism continues to be a big problem in European football, especially in Spain. Very sad and distressing. While I do think European racism is different kind than American racism, it’s no less odious.
WisCon 30 is sold out already. This doesn’t distress me as much as it will distress others because I’ll be out of the country until that Sunday afternoon/evening so I didn’t think it would be worth it.
Awhile back I asked if anyone wanted to write me some poems in English using the Old Norse dróttkvætt metre and, shockingly, no one volunteered. So I spent some time futzing with poetry yesterday, something I’ve never really done before. I figured my story needs four poems. Two didn’t turn out so bad but the other two need work to be true to the form. I may be seeking poetry critics in the near future to tell me the truth about them. Slamming crappy poetry is infinitely easier than writing it.
I realize this is breaking the golden rule of “never include your own poetry in your stories” but I think this is somewhat mitigated by the fact that a) the thought of writing poetry terrifies me, and b) the story calls for it. Really. It does.
Current Mood – Fair | 
Currently Listening To – Woody Guthrie – “The Woody Guthrie Story”
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Why aren’t you supposed to use your own poetry in your fiction writing? What if you write poetry separately?
Never heard that rule.
I think John mentioned this in his notes after WOTF. The reason being that most writers likely are tone-deaf to their own poetry and could ruin an otherwise fine story by inserting bad verse thinking it was good.
Like all writing rules, this one can be broken provided you break it skillfully enough.