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Results of `GaioumonBatou’s Workshop on Limericks

Thank you to everyone who took part in the workshop! I'd like to apologize right off the bat for my comments being so minimal, but I figured it would be easiest to address the overall issues with everyone, rather than re-typing everything individually. The only real issue that most of you had with the limericks was the meter. There was a comment that ~starrsilver made about how her impressionwas that the meter should be "pretty close to anapestic trimeter and dimeter". In a few ways, the meter of a limerick can be a bit faked, certainly. Take this rather well known limerick, for example:

There WAS a young LAdy of NIger
Who SMILED as she RODE on a TIger;
They reTURNED from the RIDE
With the LAdy inSIDE,
And the SMILE on the FACE of the TIger.

Now, in this instance, the first two lines are in amphibrachic trimeter. This is pretty standard for limericks, and as such isn't a concern. The next two lines are in anapestic dimeter, which is common for the third and fourth lines of limericks as well. But check the fifth line. It looks like anapestic trimeter, save for that last unstressed syllable at the end. As far as looking at the meter goes, it is awkward. However, when reading it aloud, it flows quite nicely.

Therein lies the issue. It's not entirely on, but it is close, save for that final syllable. As such, it is a bit easy to fake, but it's still a good idea to go for the correct meter, as it's easier to work with than just making things up.

That said, there were a lot of interesting takes on the limerick for this workshop, and I'd like to particularly note =BobSmith006's incredibly twisted but amusing anti-limerick (it's the second one). I also got a good kick out of *Queen-of-Marigold's limerick, as well as ~starrsilver's limericks (and the title, too, gotta love Batman references).

Thank you again to everyone who took part, I'll try to leave more feedback for everyone as soon as I can.


`Beccalicious’s Workshop: The Workshop you never did!


Before we update to the new groups system, we thought this would be a perfect time to look back and reflect on the group of *Writers-Workshop from twisted stories all the way to limericks, we’ve had a diverse amount of workshops, spanning different genres, styles and themes. Our workshops have been a mixture of fun and education, something we want to continue with in the future.

Often we get comments from our members who have missed a workshop that they found interesting. This is now your chance to delve into the past and do those workshops you missed.

Below is a list of links to every workshop journal that we have ever hosted to help you decide what you would like to do.

Twisted Stories by `GunShyMartyr
Ekphrasis by `PoeticWar
Jazz by ^StJoan

Discovering Dialogue by `GeneratingHype
Lipograms by ~TheHungerArtist
What’s in a Name? by `Beccalicious

Magic realism by `apocathary
NonFiction Poetry by *EveningDownpour
I, Me, Myself by `lovetodeviate

Brevity is the wit of Soul by `conorschild
Tanka by `MSJames
Humerus isn’t a Bone by `Jon-Law

The Great Revision Expedition: prose by `Beccalicious
Groom your Poem by `lovetodeviate
metamorphosis by *Writers-Workshop

Childrens Prose by *ThornyEnglishRose
Break a Line by `PinkyMcCoversong
The Lady and the Rogue by ^LadyLincoln

Call of the Wild by *batousaijin
Found Poetry by `Laurence55
Sound devices by ^SparrowSong

Flash Fiction by `SRSmith
Senryu by `jade-pandora
The Writer is always right by `BerylAlexandros

Exiltentialism by `GaioumonBatou
Punctuating with Purpose by ~LaMonaca
It’s Elementary by `poprocksandcharlotte

Creative Nonfiction by =Negated
Another Perspective by =TheObviousChild
New beginings by `Beccalicious

The Tale as truth by *wordworks
Simply the sonnet by =fense
Fan Fiction by ^ArtisticAunJuli

Seeing is Believing by *Queen-of-Marigold
In the Details by ^fllnthblnk
More Details by *Writers-Workshop

Netting the Vignette by `Amberlouie
Limericks by `GaioumonBatou

Try to take time to consider what workshop you would like to try, or even try again if you don’t feel you made the best stab at it last time. We will accept more than one entry for this workshop, but please don’t submit more than three different workshops .


How to Submit

After submitting your entry as a new deviation or scrap, send us a note with a link to your piece. Include the subject line "MISSED" in your note. We also need for you to state which workshop you have used and whether you are submitting prose or poetry.

The deadline is midnight May 27th 2009, giving you three weeks instead of the usual 10 days. All times are set for GMT. `Beccalicious will respond to the entries on June 6th, 2009, which gives a whole week dedicated to critique.

Proofread your work before you send it in so that grammatical and spelling errors are minimal. And most of all have fun with it!



Workshop Piece DD’d

Congratulations to =AstarteKatz who recieved a Daily deviation for her workshop submission to `Amberlouie’s vignette workshop! Go make sure you congratulate her on what was a beautifully written piece:





*Writers-Workshop and Groups

If you haven’t heard of groups by now, you may have been sleeping under a very quiet rock. If you are one of these rock people check out #hq as it is the first launched group on deviantArt.

The new groups system will see some big changes for *Writers-Workshop, and we are confident we will embrace it and reinvigorate how our group works. However to do this, after this current workshop is over, we will be taking a short break to construct the group to suit ours, and your needs.

During this shut off time, we would like to hear from your in our forum section. We would like to hear feedback, not only on future workshop ideas, but ideas and suggestions for the group as a whole. Please check our profile for more details.

We want to be able to be back in the position where we’re booked months ahead for workshops. Therefore please if you would like to host a workshop, please submit a proposal to us, because we are always interested in hearing what you guys have to offer. Remember, although a lot of our workshops have been technical and form based, we also like to see more genre and theme based workshops too, especially for free for all workshops.

Further news of our shut off time will be in our next newsletter along with the results of the current workshop.


First time you've heard of *Writers-Workshop? This section is for you.

*Writers-Workshop is a literature community that focuses on the development of a writer. We intend to provide a non-competitive workshop environment on dA, as well as to push good, polished writing over winning prizes or "networking".

Workshops will be conducted every fortnight; prose, poetry and free-for-all sessions will be rotated. For more information, read our: FAQ section or note us with queries.

We have been working on a list of resources for our writers: Resources for Writers which we think is worth going through. We are open to suggestions as well.

Our Diary has a list of upcoming workshops.

You can host a Workshop host a Workshop, too.


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