This
blog is devoted to a select group of poets. We're starting with poets
from the Ann Arbor area, but, hey, if you're from Detroit, Grand Rapids,
Saginaw or the Upper Peninsula, then that is okay, too.
Our goal is to provide you with a prompt every day from which you are to garner inspiration and submit a poem. How to submit will be very easy. Just put your poem or short story in the comments section and hit post. You may not immediately see your post, but it is there under the "Comments" section. You may need to click on "Comments" to see your poem. It is there on another page.
You
may need to have a Gmail account to post in the comments section. Most
of you do have Gmail, but for those of you that don't it's extremely
worthwhile to open up one now! That way you've got a chance to get your
work out there in the world.
Today's poem or short story prompt is the word "the sun"
THE WORD "THE"
ReplyDeleteA few days ago, I posted this writing prompt: "the sun".
My reasons (as they often are) were trivial:
- I wanted a word allowed different intepretations
- it was a beautiful, sunny afternoon
and
- I think the sun's really cool
Now, a few days later, I'm wishing I'd left off the word "the".
I am going insane trying to read some UTF-8 encoded Asian characters that come across an http connection, go through several layers of software (Apache Tomcat, PE, my custom app and all the connectivity among and between them) and eventually turns a set of interesting Chinese characters (which I don't understand) to a series of question marks (which I do). Someone posted (about the FileOutputStream object) that "This will create a file alright, but that file will not be a true UTF-8 file. Infact, this is a known and documented bug in the JDK that SUN will never fix!" I thought, "hmm.. I wonder why not?"
I was going to write about that, but then I realized I'd posted the prompt "the sun" not just "sun".
So I can't.
-Mike Fedel
April, 2013