Writing is part of what drew me to Elendor in the first place. Part of good role-playing in a text-based environment is being able to write well. This involves grammar, vocabulary, and an artistic sense for words and meanings. Role-playing on Elendor helps me keep up my writing skills.

Poetry is another way I practice writing. I love the way you can write poetry with as many or as few rules as you like: it's an art of extreme freedom. You can play with words in a way that few other forms of written media allow. Much of my more free-form poetry does not exactly follow English grammar, and some would actually be very hard to read aloud, due to the significance of the visual elements. Some poets believe that poetry is essentially a verbal experience, written on the page only for the convenience of record-keeping and/or transmission. I believe this view has validity, but there is also something to the experience of reading poetry, not hearing it, but reading it silently to yourself. Verbal language can't always express the ideas that visual symbols can; the use of upper or lower case letters, line breaks, and certain types of punctuation are difficult to express verbally, and yet can be vital to the meaning and experience of a poem. Most of my non-rhyming poems are intended to be read silently to oneself, and not spoken aloud.

Eventually, I hope to have some short stories to put up here as well, but I have much more trouble with this form, mostly because I just can't end my stories! They all want to turn into long works, but I don't want that, so I end up giving up on them. However, I have completed a few, and hope to write a few with content appropriate to this site.

Well, here ya go. My poetry. Please, please, please, email me and tell me what you think of these poems, whether you hate them or love them or anything in between.

My Tolkien-inspired poetry

My other poetry


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