Bless me for I have committed cliche

[pbray]

OMG, I'm writing a fragment of an original poem to put in my fantasy novel. Can I be any more cliched?

P.S. I'm crap at poetry. This is going to suck even more than my prose.

Comments

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

I once wrote a story that included a truly awful poem that I made with magnetic poetry. It not only sold, it got my first good review. Of course, the poem was supposed to be dreadful...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Hee!

This poetry is supposed to be good--but I'm cheating since the part I'm including is described as a translation of the original, and thus any suckiness can be put down to a poor translation.

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Clever! ;)

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

It's not an endless Elf Ballad or Dirge, is it?

[pbray.livejournal.com]

It's only two lines. I do have my standards :-)

[pbray.livejournal.com]

BTW, originally it was going to be longer, but after half an hour I realized that I'd already reached maximum suck with two lines and couldn't come up with anything else to add that I didn't hate. So now I have a poem fragment.

[quietselkie.livejournal.com]

Whew! Hahaha!

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

Just do it and let the chips fall, if it seems right for the story.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can count on my editor to let me know if I went totally off track.

[gerbilicous.livejournal.com]

So long as you're not rhyming "dragon" with "flagon", I think we're ok!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

*winces* Yeah, that would be pretty bad.

But I'm sure I did it (or something similar) back when I was writing poetry as a teen....

[larryhammer]

*cackles* Vee VILL drag you ofer to the werse side of the force!

---L.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Nooo!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

BTW, you should know that one of my first thoughts was "OMG, I'll die if Larry ever sees this crap."

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

The vessel with the pestle has the pellet with the poison
The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Can't you just see that as a clue in a Harry Potter-ripoff?

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

I would be more offended at the rip-off of a Danny Kaye movie...