Inside an Author's Mind: Flight of Ideas
Authors, are you triggered by current events to incorporate the news into your writing? Readers, are you curious about the writing process? Here's a glimpse of how recent occurrences resulted in two poems. The recent flurry of articles about the Chinese Spy Balloon set my creative juices afire. Analogies flittered, and synonyms cavorted through my mind. Chinese, hmm, ah yes, Communist “red.” Was the conveyance really a meteorologic device, or was it a “Trojan” horse carrying advanced spy devices, or was it somehow inserting Trojan malware into our internet? And was the balloon a “carrier pigeon” to return the pilfered information to China? The words sorted and arranged, condensed into a senryu format, and voila! Poem number one: