The first novel in the worldwide bestselling series by Suzanne Collins!
Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun. . . .
In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.
Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.
My Thoughts
I love the idea that this was built on. I see several plot holes in the story…but it is not a terrible read. I enjoyed the story. The characters are sympathetic and overall the story was a good read.
This is my work in progress list… and how I keep track of my word count.
okay I am running late today. I am also fighting bronchitis. This weather has me sick.
I started a new theme volume. so I listed it on there but the only writing in it so far is the foreword. That explains the idea of the volume and the rules I want to use within it. I don’t normally add that to the count because it is a natural part of the process…but it is starting that volumes set up. it is another one focusing on specific forms.
I also found out why I was struggling to get The sea serpent to go forward and fixed it. so I got some words in it.
when I get bored I will doodle. Not always on paper. I have had self harm issues in the past. using the pen on skin actually soothes the urge without doing any actual damage.
while the reason why self harm is being an urge should be discussed with someone that can help, finding a way to satisfy the urge without doing harm is helpful.
Doodling is also a great fidget. 😁 something creative that answers the need to move around when you can’t.
And I occasionally write poetry in forms. I try to occasionally explain to others about those forms because there is no type of poetry that I don’t enjoy talking about.
Today I want to talk about Cut Poetry. I may end up doing this for each of the forms that I actually understand. (Cause sometimes I don’t understand the form rules)
If you want more examples of my poetry in the use of forms I have a couple of volumes already published and one in progress. Those are Xactly poetic and Ars Poetica, published. The current volume in progress is Lyrical Recycling, a volume of Entirely cut poetry. Xactly poetic is just various forms because I wanted to prove to myself that I could. Ars Poetica is a volume based on the form it was named after.
Cut poetry is basically seeing beauty in what already exists. It is very best to describe it as upcycling words. Cut poetry is sometimes called found poetry. There are a few types of Cut/Found poetry. Blackout poems are in this group. The type I prefer are slightly different. I prefer the list poem variety.
It requires you to pick sources for the words for your poem. For my volume I chose song lyrics. That gave me a huge variety of things to use to make the poem work. I have in the past used song titles, book titles, show titles. The thing is to really make Cut Poetry work you want to grab more than one word from each source.
Here is the poem that I made with song titles. It was published in Xactly poetic originally.
(Song Titles)
You should be sad, This is why, I found The devil in I Hate me, Heaven knows I am Still learning.
They said I was special... Fragile Minds Fuck it up.
Cover me in sunshine, Joke's on you, All good girls go to Hell... Don't threaten me with a good time.
I can't decide What about us, When the party's over Sometimes she forgets Why That's the way love goes.
Each line is from a different source. Quite a few people question the legality of Cut Poetry because you are literally using other people’s words to create something new. As long as you properly attribute the poem you are not breaking copyright. My poem above attributes the source in the title. However, not always is that as easy. With song lyrics I have to make sure I list the songs I used for each poetry.
Here is an example from Lyrical Recycling.
Rock Bottom
(song titles are : Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)by Elle King and Miranda Lambert, bottle tells me so by Ashley Mcbryde, Hurt by Johnny Cash, Rock Bottom by Citizen Soldier, Now I'm in it by Haim *plus I add a line to make it work)
There's always time for jumping off the deep end From the shape I'm in, I must have barely made it to the bed If this ain't bottom, it's as far down as I ever wanna go The party's over and as always, I'm the last one to know
Try to run but my demons follow Full of broken thoughts I cannot repair I focus on the pain The only thing that’s real
Forget my whole existence 'cause everything's wrong My breaking point, so far behind I've been trying to find my way back for a minute My limit's in the rearview, I've crossed every line still running so I feel like nothing is left behind
Note the attribution. That allows the reader to go to the original source and see how you have pulled from it.
I feel like this is one of the easier forms. I will likely be doing more of this but I don’t want to put it on a specific day as I do not see it as a long term blog series.
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