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Write Now: Syncopation, Which Propels Words, Music, Is Rhythm Of Our Lives

If you walk, you have probably experienced it. The same goes for talking. And if you play a musical instrument, then you have experienced it. It helps propel music. It helps propel words, phrases and sentences. It’s a part of our lives and most don’t realize that it is happening. Syncopation that is. According to the online version of the Miriam-Webster Dictionary, merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syncopation, syncopation is a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat. So now we now the definition, but ...

Pandemic Poetry

NEW YORK (AP) — As the coronavirus spread in March, poet Ada Limon struggled at first to write, feeling “flattened and silenced” by a pandemic that had shut down much of the world she knew. “I could call nothing to me. I’d think of a sound, a word, a subject and it was all ...

Write Now: Try A Different Writing Space

We know that musicians and authors release their works as one big collection. Musicians release an album containing several songs while authors release books with several chapters or short stories, depending on what kind of book it is. Musicians sometimes release an extended play (EP) with fewer songs while an author may release a novella which is also shorter in page length compared to a novel. Musicians usually will have most of their songs in a rough form before going to a studio to record them. When in the studio, the songs come together and are recorded, mixed and ready to be ...

Socked By Virus, Comic Book Industry Tries To Draw Next Page

The pandemic has transformed Christina Blanch, owner of Aw Yeah Comics, into a nightly TV host. Nine times a week, Blanch leads a livestream from the store she lives above in Muncie, Indiana, to sell some comics and interact with regulars. She holds up issues one by one, usually for $5 or $10, and takes down addresses from buyers. It’s a way to get by but helps keep the shop’s community spirit alive. The show has a warm, thank-God-we-have-each-other feel to it. Sometimes Blanch sips a Modelo or vents about a difficult day. She calls it “What We Do in the Comic Shop.” Long ...

‘It’s About The Music’

As the pandemic keeps all nonessential businesses shutdown in New York state, a dance teacher keeps educating her students through email. Jill Keating doesn’t hold dance classes at her studio, but rather, she makes a video of each recital dance, and then emails it to each ...

Write Now: Pandemic May Make Some Share Artistic Ideas

Before I committed any words to a page, I was thinking of words to write. Ironically I could not draw on anything — not one thing. Maybe because I knew nothing. I was out of ideas. I didn’t know how to get the words to the page or what words to go on the page. I have rarely been in this position. The reason was the subject — COVID-19. I barely know anything about it. What I know is what I gather from the so-called experts, in print, TV, radio and online. Not much to choose from since those experts don’t know that much about the virus either. So I wanted to write a poem ...