The Iambic Pentameter Nightmare
The writing contests we are hosting have invaded my mind and rudely intruded upon my dreams. Last night I dreamed that a Presidential order mandated that everything be written in iambic pentameter.
In order to avoid arrest I demanded that Steve, the lead programmer at Review Fuse, rewrite all of our systems so the content of our site and the programming code would read in iambic pentameter. As Steve typically does with absurd requests he refused. Cold and clammy I awoke wondering if my wife and kids would wait for me while I served 10 years in prison because of the Review Fuse rebellion against iambic pentameter.
Do your stories, books, or poems ever disturb your slumber?
Jacob
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Tags: writing contests
April 22nd, 2009 at 7:30 pm
That is absolutely hilarious.
Usually for me, ideas I want to write about or solutions to programming problems come to me as I am trying to fall asleep. I remember one night I had a brilliant idea for how to fix a problem at work. I was so excited I couldn’t fall asleep for 3 hours just thinking about how to do it and how much it would save. Unfortunately that time was all wasted. My email was returned with a “yea we were already planning to do it this way.” Later they asked me to look over what they did and it was no where even close to the idea I presented, at which time they admitted they didn’t actually read the email. They were still having problems with the solution they implemented until the day I left.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:39 pm
I would say the opposite has occurred. My characters are disturbed by my dreams more than I’m disturbed by my characters or their stories. In one story a character, Nick, couldn’t fall asleep because he was so terrified by a nightmare from the night before. His nightmare is the same that I used to have; after all characters are like shadows of ourselves. Who knows, maybe Nick didn’t like the nightmare and he’ll come after me in my own future dreams . . . Or maybe I’ve been reading too much speculative fiction.
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 am
A foot is two syllables soft-loud. I have done pentameter 10 syllables a line, but never read it as soft-loud, etc.
5 feet is 10 syllables.
You should have a poetry contest, not just a short story contest, so I will try again!
I updated my profile, but I did not add an avatar. I did not think I needed an avatar symbol.
The four reviews I did were interesting, but I don’t know the people whose work I reviewed!
As Expected…
July 6th, 2009 at 7:30 am
iambic pentameter is a device in literature dealing with scansion and upgradation and meter understanding in literature in totality.the proselytization of story telling generates the feature of higher source of understanding in a realistic manner and concerned in effective way and method as well.the relational value is reflected in this context in total crux of the situation in reality in actual sense and sensibility .i firmly assert the the value of story telling in exactitude in the literal sense and affirmation in the greatest sense of assertion and rationality as well.literary device rests on iambic pentameter in a angularity context and status in a realistic content in literal historic content.the nightmare note is symbolic in nature and literary gesture. the civilisational approach is embedded in this arena in totality of literary context and content in literary hiatus.thus linguistic glory rests on affirmation of ideas in subjective analysis.bose and sterling in his famous text rhetoric and prosody asserts the metrical pattern in literary criticism in highest format of trend in realistic firmness.